The seventies : the personal, the political and the making of modern Australia

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Label

The seventies : the personal, the political and the making of modern Australia

Title remainder

the personal, the political and the making of modern Australia

Statement of responsibility

Michelle Arrow

Title variation

70s

Creator

• Arrow, Michelle

Author

• Arrow, Michelle

Subject

• trueAustralian
• Australia -- Social life and customs -- 1965-
• trueAustralia -- Politics and government -- 1965-
• Nineteen seventies

Language

eng

Summary

The Seventies was the decade that shaped modern Australia. It was the decade of `It's Time', stagflation and the Dismissal, a tumultuous period of economic and political upheaval. But the Seventies was also the era when the personal became political, when we had a Royal Commission into Human Relationships and when social movements tore down the boundary between public and private life. Women wanted childcare, equal pay, protection from violence and agency to shape their own lives. In the process, the reforms they sought and achieved, at least in part reshaped Australia's culture and rewrote our expectations of government. In a lively and engaging style, Michelle Arrow has written a new history of this transformative decade; one that is more urgent, and more resonant, than ever

Cataloging source

AU@

Dewey number

994.06

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography