1st Edition
How the Personal Became Political The Gender and Sexuality Revolutions in 1970s Australia
Introduction - How the Personal Became Political: The Feminist and Sexual Revolutions of the 1970s, Michelle Arrow and Angela Woollacott
Chapter 1: How the Personal became Political: The Feminist Movement of the 1970s, Elizabeth Reid
Chapter 2: Beauty Becomes Political: Beginnings of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Australia, Susan Magarey
Chapter 3: When the Personal Became Too Political: ASIO and the Monitoring of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Australia, Evan Smith
Chapter 4: Feminism in Sydney’s Suburbs: ‘Speaking Out’, Listening and ‘Sisterhood’ at the 1975 Women’s Commissions, Isobelle Barrett Meyering
Chapter 5: Making Family Violence Public in the Royal Commission on Human Relationships, 1974-1977, Michelle Arrow
Chapter 6: Being a Woman’s Adviser at the State Level: Deborah McCulloch and Don Dunstan in 1970s South Australia, Angela Woollacott
Chapter 7: Before the Refrain: The Personal and the Political in South Australia’s Sexual Revolution, Clare Parker
Chapter 8: Abortion and the Limits of the Personal Becoming Political, Barbara Baird
Chapter 9: Activism and Australia’s Ban on Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Military Service in the 1970s-1980s, Noah Riseman
Biography
Michelle Arrow is Professor in Modern History at Macquarie University. Her books include The Seventies: The Personal, The Political and the Making of Modern Australia (NewSouth, 2019) and Friday on Our Minds: Popular Culture in Australia Since 1945 (2009).
Angela Woollacott (FRHistS, FASSA, FAHA) is the Manning Clark Professor of History at the Australian National University. She is the author of many books, including Settler Society in the Australian Colonies: Self-Government and Imperial Culture (Oxford University Press, 2015) and most recently Don Dunstan: The Visionary Politician who Changed Australia (Allen and Unwin, 2019).
