Women’s Center Newsletter, Summer 1973

New York: Women’s Liberation Center of New York, 1973. Offset. Single leaf folded to form [4]pp. 8 1/2 x 11 in. Three small tears to edges, slight loss to bottom right corner; very good. Item #10331

Early flyer from The Women’s Liberation Center, published just a year after its founding. 

The Women’s Liberation Center was a key node in the New York women’s and gay liberation movement, housing the offices and meeting space of several important organizations of the period, including Lesbian Feminist Liberation, Women’s Abortion Project, the Lesbian Lifespace Project, Older Women’s Liberation, the Lesbian Switchborad, Radicalesbians Health Collective, and several others over its 15 years in the firehouse. Additionally, the Center hosted frequent programming, including concerts, screenings, workshops, community dinners, and many other public events.

A year before the publication of this newsletter, The Women’s Liberation Center was evicted from a loft on 22nd Street and moved into the firehouse, which housed the Center until 1987. This newsletter details the history of the firehouse, the precarious legal status of the Center’s use of it, the process the Center would have to successfully navigate in order to formalize its use of the firehouse, and an ultimately successful political strategy to win a lease. The newsletter also includes an article on the prevalence of rape in New York City and movement efforts to combat it and support survivors, along with a comic by Carol Sanders.

A scarce document from an important early node of the women’s liberation movement and movement for abortion rights. 

Price: $350.00