NATIONAL CONFERENCE

Tentative plans have been made to hold a national conference of radical women and women's liberation groups this Fall, near Xmas. This would commemorate the 120th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention which began the first women's movement in addition to giving us a chance to get together. For more information, write Laya Firestone and Marilyn Webb, c/o The Institute for Policy Studies

ATLANTIC CITY IS A TOWN WITH CLASS
THEY RAISE YOUR MORALS WHILE THEY
JUDGE YOUR ASS

--by
Judith Duffett, New York

On Sept.7, nearly 150 women committed to women's liberation from New York, New Jersey, Washington D.C, Florida, Boston and Detroit, converged on Atlantic City to protest the degrading image of women perpetuated by the Miss America Pageant.
Our goal was: No more Miss America'! Our objections to the Pageant: its racism (there's never been a black contestant); its use of Miss America as a military mascot to entertain the troops abroad and symbolize the it unstained, patriotic American womanhood our boys are fighting for"; the degrading Mindless-Boob-Girlie symbol which puts women on a pedestal/auction block to compete for male approval; the consumer con-game which makes Miss America a walking commercial and oppresses all women into commodity roles; the cult of youth and the American institution of planned obsolescence which makes last year's Miss America as stale as yesterday's news and makes all women "useless"

when they are no longer ripe for exploitation as sex objects; the Madonna Whore image of womanhood which means that Miss America must be--seductive in a bathing suit and at the same time be pure and untouched; and the whole idea of beauty contests, which create one "winner" and (Continued on p. 5)

REALWOMEN CHAINED TO AMERIKA-DOLLY In guerilla theater skit In Atlantic City.