Overview

The 1970s was a decade when matters previously considered private and personal became public and political. These shifts not only transformed Australian politics, they engendered far-reaching cultural and social changes. Feminists challenged ‘man-made’ norms and sought to recover lost histories of female achievement and cultur

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Author:   Michelle Arrow ,  Angela Woollacott
Publisher:   ANU Press
Imprint:   ANU Press
ISBN:  

9781760462963

ISBN 10:   1760462969
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   28 August 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Revolutionising the everyday: The transformative impact of the sexual and feminist movements on Australian society and culture Of girls and spanners: Feminist politics, women's bodies and the male trades The discovery of sexism in schools: Everyday revolutions in the classroom Making the political personal: Gender and sustainable lifestyles in 1970s Australia How the personal became (and remains) political in the visual arts Subversive stitches: Needlework as activism in Australian feminist art of the 1970s Women into print: Feminist presses in Australia 'Unmistakably a book by a feminist': Helen Garner's Monkey Grip and its feminist contexts A phone called PAF: CAMP counselling in the 1970s Discomforting politics: 1970s activism and the spectre of sex in public Creative work: Feminist representations of gendered and domestic violence in 1970s Australia 'Put on dark glasses and a blind man's head': Poetic defamation and the question of feminist privacy in 1970s Australia Changing 'man made language': Sexist language and feminist linguistic activism in Australia 'A race of intelligent super giants': The Whitlams, gendered bodies and political authority in modern Australia Cleo magazine and the sexual revolution Male chauvinists and ranting libbers: Representations of single men in 1970s Australia Index

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