Bibliograph

The seventies, the personal, the political and the making of modern Australia, Michelle Arrow

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The seventies, the personal, the political and the making of modern Australia, Michelle Arrow

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The seventies

Responsibility statement

Michelle Arrow

Sub title

the personal, the political and the making of modern Australia

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

Target audience

adult

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70sPersonal, the political and the making of modern Australia

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