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Title: Seventies, The: The Personal, the Political & the Making of Modern Australia
Author: ARROW MICHELLE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/03/2019
Imprint: NEW SOUTH WALES UNI PRESS
Price: $35.00
Publishing status: Active
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. `At last, personal politics as national history. In lucid and nimble prose, Michelle Arrow demonstrates that – in the 1970s at least – it was about the relationships, stupid. A revelation.’ – Clare Wright
ISBN: 9781742234700
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm
Edition: 01