Revolutionising the everyday: The transformative impact of the sexual and feminist movements on Australian society and culture

Abstract

I don’t know if you’ve seen photographs of it, from that time, and everyone from Margaret Whitlam on through, all the women of that time, there’s a look on the face. That wide-eyed sort of bright and hopeful look, and it was that feeling, you know. There was a feeling of incredible anger, of course, when you’re understanding all the ways ... in which women are oppressed. But at the same time, this sense of joy and power coming from this working together and working it out and the scales being taken from the eyes. Sue Jackson, interview with Ruth Ford, 19971