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Ladyfest Amsterdam happened from 27th to 31st of August 2003.

Ladyfest Jakarta happened on 16th of April 2003.

Ladyfest Melbourne took place from 20th to 23rd of November 2003.

ABOUT SHEBA FEMINIST PRESS

Sheba Feminist Press was established in 1980 -- one of a handful
of small independent publishers born of the UK women's movement
during the 70s and early 80s. The new feminist presses turned
their backs on the high-modernist clique then firmly in control
of the British book scene, and looked instead at what that world
literally couldn't see: the writing of women who hadn't been to
Oxford or Cambridge, and who weren't necessarily white or
heterosexual or middle-class, and who didn't speak with the
polished vowels of Bloomsbury. The new

Statement:
Women's Studies International Forum (formerly Women's Studies International Quarterly, established in 1978) is a bimonthly journal to aid the distribution and exchange of feminist research in the multidisciplinary, international area of women's studies and in feminist research in other disciplines. The policy of the journal is to establish a feminist forum for discussion and debate.

"Set up in May '78 as a successor to the Scottish Women's Liberation Journal. Quarterly publication, printed, circulation 1,000- to be increased. Distributed: PDC, bookshops, subs, women's centres, sales at meetings etc. available to men. ₤150 for an average issue, self financing and supplemented by fund raising. 6/7 women work on the paper. Publication is aimed at women in Scotland and sympathetic to men. Hopes to promote debate on all issues concerning women in Scotland.

Feminist Review is a peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journal setting new agendas for feminism. Feminist Review invites critical reflection on the relationship between materiality and representation, theory and practice, subjectivity and communities, contemporary and historical formations. The FR Collective is committed to exploring gender in its multiple forms and interrelationships.

"Set up in August '78, monthly paper. Circulation 250-500. Distribution: around pubs, door to door on estates, and in the local wholefood shop. Self financing n/l, costs: ₤8 an issue. 5 women work on the N/L, and the collective is open, and women are welcome to their monthly meetings. Aimed at any woman, and lets women know what's going on. Material from the collective plus other women, and they sometimes reprint an article.

"Set up in Jan '78 because they were pissed off with middle class crap. Appears 6 times a year, and their circulation is higher than any middle class feminist would expect. Distributed: subs. A different group does the newsletter each time, so it rotates. Takes about 50 hours to produce one. It is easy for women to get involved, also since they are demystifying the publication process. It is aimed at working class women's liberationinists, and provides contact, info, interest, impetus, support.

"Set up in summer '76 to express the collective's political views. They hope that the newsletter will come out every 2 months. Circulation: 500, and it is available to everyone. Exists through donations from members and others and all the collective (Brixton Black Women's Group) work on the paper. Closed collective. Aim to policise black women. Invite contributions from women only. Marxist-leninist perspective".

- Information from the "Directory of Women's Liberation Newletters, Magazines, Journals...", by Dena and Shaila (York, UK), c.1978