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The seventies: The personal, the political and the making of modern Australia
The women's liberation and gay rights movements were built upon this principle, which had many permutations: from coming out and consciousness raising, to the creation of rape crisis centres and staging political demonstrations, such as the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras that were equal parts party and protest. [...]in the 1970s, ideas of what was 'public' and what was 'private' began to change. [...]domestic violence and rape in marriage were typically regarded as private matters rather than crimes, and marital rape was not criminalised nationally until 1991.1 The rise of women's liberation and gay liberation in the late 1960s and early 1970s instigated seismic change in Australian public and private lives. The following three compact case studies provide a peek into some of the issues that reveal the shifting line between private and public, and between the personal and the political, which reshaped both Australian politics and experiences of private life in the 1970: * consciousness raising and the question of differences between women * the emergence of domestic violence as a feminist issue * the Royal Commission on Human Relationships.
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The Seventies
WINNER of the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for History Shortlisted for the 2020NSW Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction.
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Between Charity and Neoliberalism: The Campaign for Funding Women's Refuges in Australia, 1974–1985
Australia's first women's refuge was established in 1974, marking a crucial outgrowth of women's liberation activism that placed domestic violence on the public agenda. To maintain refuges, feminists seized opportunities presented by the progressive Gough Whitlam Labor government. This convergence between a reforming government and the women's movement meant that Australian feminist refuges were among the first in the world to receive state support, in 1975. Maintaining this support required feminist activists to engage with the Australian state. They framed their claims in two ways: they foregrounded women's traumatic narratives of experiences of domestic violence, and they asserted that refuges were a distinctive feminist service. Adapting to a constantly changing political context, however, advocates found it difficult to distinguish their activities from charitable refuges. Their emphasis on women's trauma foregrounded a victimized political subject while the movement's emphasis on fostering \"self-help\" was co-opted by advocates of neoliberal governance.
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Review: Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives
Piper and Stevenson have assembled a terrific group of contributors at a range of career stages and the focus on gender violence, rather than a narrower framing of 'sexual violence' or 'domestic violence', has produced a wide-ranging collection that offers ample evidence of surging scholarly interest in histories of gender violence. Drawing on a larger historical project in collaboration with family historians, Tanya Evans investigates the ways that stories of domestic violence uncovered in family history research can profoundly disrupt normative narratives about family life in both the past and present. Shurlee Swain re-reads the records of government inquiries into child abuse in institutional care settings against the backdrop of feminist activism to confirm that the patterns of abuse in these settings was gendered, even if it was not always presented that way in the media coverage of these inquiries. The book certainly shows how the heightened public discussion of domestic violence has been enormously generative for historical research, and it has encouraged many of us to think about how our research connects to a broader activist politics.
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Winning for Women
What was it like to be involved in the heady days of 'second wave' feminism in Australia, when the role of women at home and at work changed decisively?.
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The seventies: The personal, the political and the making of modern Australia
The 1970s saw the origin of many of our most important current public discussions.
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Small Screens
There has been a lot happening on Australia's small screens. Neighbours turned 30.Struggle Street was accused of poverty porn. Pete evangelised Paleo. Gina gotlitigious. Netflix muscled in. The Bachelor spawned The Bachelorette. Peter Allen'smaraccas were exhumed. The Labor Party ate itself. Anzac was an anti-climax. Andso much more.
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