Beschreibung:
How the Personal became Political brings together new research on the feminist and sexual revolutions of the 1970s in Australia. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Australian Feminist Studies.
Introduction - How the Personal Became Political: The Feminist and Sexual Revolutions of the 1970s 1. How the Personal became Political: The Feminist Movement of the 1970s 2. Beauty Becomes Political: Beginnings of the Women's Liberation Movement in Australia 3. When the Personal Became Too Political: ASIO and the Monitoring of the Women's Liberation Movement in Australia 4. Feminism in Sydney's Suburbs: 'Speaking Out', Listening and 'Sisterhood' at the 1975 Women's Commissions 5. Making Family Violence Public in the Royal Commission on Human Relationships, 1974-1977 6. Being a Woman's Adviser at the State Level: Deborah McCulloch and Don Dunstan in 1970s South Australia 7. Before the Refrain: The Personal and the Political in South Australia's Sexual Revolution 8. Abortion and the Limits of the Personal Becoming Political 9. Activism and Australia's Ban on Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Military Service in the 1970s-1980s