Libera, Issue No. 2, Summer 1972 [Letter from Vietnam. A Women's Free School. Death in the Delivery Room. Poetry. Fiction. Graphics] A New Women's Journal

University of California, Berkeley: Libera / Women's Press Collective, 1972. Softcover. First edition; oblong 7 3/4 x 10; pp. 60; orange wraps with b&w photographic illustration; a few small crease lines to corners; minor wear and spotting to tips of spine and margins of covers; a cut-out newspaper article about "Libera" laid in resulting in darkening of pp. 20-21; profusely illustrated with drawings and photographs; internally clean; very good to near fine.The journal emerged as a collaboration between the Libera Collective and the Women's Press Collective in the tumultuous early 1970s in Berkeley. It was conceived as a medium for women to publish graphics, poetry, and articles. As the laid-in newspaper article (appearing to have been cut out of the "Daily Californian") pointed out - the present Issue No. 2 particularly stood out with its write-ups on the San Francisco Breakaway, the letter written from Vietnam to one of the Collective, the controversial use of anesthesia in delivery rooms, etc.