Nijmegen, The Netherlands: De Feeks / VIOOL, 1977. Softcover, 24,2×17,8 cm.

First publication by De Feeks in collaboration with Vrouwengroep Interfacultair Overleg Nijmegen [VIOOL]. Includes transcriptions of lectures held at the Heksencollege, congress on women, science and culture, on October 13 and 14, 1977 at the Catholic University in Nijmegen.

In 1977 women’s bookstore De Feeks opened its doors on the Eiermarkt, at the current location of Bistro Romein. ‘A huge building,’ Schoffelen remembers. ‘And that was needed too, because shortly after opening, we were joined by a women’s café and a documentation centre. We were a real free state within Nijmegen.’ A free state that was home to all kinds of actions and protests. ‘For example, we organised the Witch Night, where we patrolled areas of the city where women were often harassed. We also organised actions to shut down pornographic cinema Le Paris. We threw paint at the screen, or glued the locks shut with mastic.’ When Minister of Justice Dries van Agt – the subject of much controversy at the time because of his plan to shut down abortion clinics – visited Nijmegen, he was accosted by a large group of women who threw sanitary towels at his head. ‘They were clean sanitary towels,’ laughs Schoffelen. (...) Jozien Wijkhuijs, VOX, 2018.