Karate

  • A lady doesn’t take karate / moderated by Lois Hansen.

    Eight Bay Area feminists talk about learning karate, both in traditional schools and in the newer, women-only self-defense classes, the physical and mental challenges of karate, the need to defend themselves and their changing images of themselves. The women come from a range of backgrounds (some of them are young, some older, some gay, others…

  • Karate : women’s liberation demonstration.

    Members of Women’s Liberation, determined to impress the University of California, Berkeley officials of their seriousness, staged a demonstration at Harmon Gymnasium, the school’s men’s gym, demanding to be allowed to enter the class in Karate.  The protestors were met by the police who refused to allow them into the room where the course was…