Come Here To Me!

Bread and Roses was a feminist fanzine published by the UCD ‘Women’s Liberation Group’ in the mid 1970s. It was a crudely designed, black and white  stapled zine. This issue is 18 pages and is from early 1975.

I featured issue 2 on the UCD Hidden History blog a while back.

On the title:

The slogan “Bread and Roses” originated in a poem of that name by James Oppenheim, published in The American Magazine in December 1911, which attributed it to “the women in the West.” It is commonly associated with a textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts during January-March 1912, now often known as the “Bread and Roses strike”.

This issue features a fairly provocative front cover showing a “before and after” shot of a woman, pregnant and unhappy and then the same woman, smiling, alighting from a plane with the caption “Visit Britain … and leave your worries behind”

Front cover. Bread & Roses (Issue 3). 1975.

Contents:

Housework – Marion Connolly

Italy: Abortion At Issue –  Cristona Cona (Italian Women’s Lib Movement)

The Next Purge … Radical Feminism? – Tony Dunn

Political ‘Science’ or Apologetics for Women’s Oppression? – Betty Purcell

A Commentary on UCD Women’s Week – Fiona Nolan

Doctors Report – C. Fisher

The Subservient Woman – Fiona Nolan