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How the Personal Became Political - The Gender and Sexuality Revolutions in 1970s Australia (Paperback)
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How the Personal Became Political - The Gender and Sexuality Revolutions in 1970s Australia (Paperback)
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How the Personal became Political brings together new research on
the feminist and sexual revolutions of the 1970s in Australia. It
addresses the political and theoretical significance of these
movements, asking how and why did matters previously considered
private and personal, become public and political? These movements
produced a series of changes that were both interconnected and
profound. The pill became generally available and sexuality was
both celebrated and flaunted. Homosexuality was gradually
decriminalized. Gay liberation and Women's Liberation erupted.
Activists established women's refuges, rape crisis centres, and
counselling services. Crucially, in Australia, these developments
coincided with the election of progressive governments, who
appointed women's advisors and expanded the role of the state in
the provision of childcare and other services. It was a decade of
contestation and transformation. This book addresses the political
and theoretical significance of these 1970s revolutions, and poses
key questions about the nature of sweeping change. What were the
key policy shifts? How were protests connected to legislative
reforms? How did Australia fit into the broader transnational
movements for change? What are the legacies of these movements and
what can activists today learn from them? Scholars from several
disciplines offer fresh insight into this wave of social
revolution, and its contemporary relevance. This book was
originally published as a special issue of the journal, Australian
Feminist Studies.
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