The Meagre Harvest: The Australian Women's Movement 1950s-1990s

Title page......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Tables and figure......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 9
Introduction......Page 11
Part I Sowing......Page 15
1 Finding the beginning......Page 17
The mood before the movement......Page 19
Homegrown issues......Page 24
When work outside the home was not a choice......Page 32
The brewing of the storm and Vietnam......Page 37
Part II In the field......Page 43
2 Women go it alone......Page 45
The stages of the Australian Women\'s Liberation movement......Page 47
Women and feminism......Page 52
Women and gender roles......Page 55
Gender and identity......Page 61
The concept of equality......Page 64
3 Testing the water......Page 72
Feminist orientation and its strategies......Page 76
The projects......Page 84
The infiltration of women into decision-making bodies......Page 88
The conflicts......Page 92
4 Sappho\'s new sisters......Page 105
The lesbian and the gay and lesbian movements......Page 109
Lesbians and the women\'s movement......Page 112
The opposition to lesbians and gays......Page 117
From consciousness-raising to militancy......Page 118
Lesbians and the law......Page 122
The current state of play......Page 126
Backlashes......Page 130
Migrant women......Page 136
Visibility, new exclusions and the women\'s movement......Page 140
Aboriginal women and the black women\'s movement......Page 149
Perceptions of Aboriginal women......Page 152
Aboriginal women and the white women\'s movement......Page 159
Part III Harvesting......Page 163
6 Backlashes......Page 165
Restructuring in the 1980s......Page 167
The enemies of social justice......Page 173
Attitudes, images and beliefs: more or the same enemies?......Page 175
The revolt against behaving fairly......Page 178
Work......Page 182
Education......Page 194
Marriage and the family......Page 201
8 Panaceas for the future?......Page 207
Fences and other impediments......Page 209
Hobbled reforms......Page 217
Endnotes......Page 221
References......Page 223