{"title":"Cleo magazine and the sexual revolution","authors":"Megan Le Masurier","doi":"10.22459/er.2019.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/er.2019.15","url":null,"abstract":"In November 1972 a new women’s magazine was launched in Australia that popularised many of the ideas of the sexual revolution and women’s liberation. Cleo was the brainchild of publisher Frank Packer at ACP Magazines and editor Ita Buttrose, influenced by the success of Cosmopolitan magazine in the United States and a determination to corner the younger women’s market before the Australian version of Cosmo launched in March 1973. Buttrose’s aim, as she wrote in her 1985 memoir, was to bring to everyday women—not those actively involved in the women’s movement—a confronting directness about both women’s and sexual liberation. ‘We equipped the rebels with knowledge and thus stoked the fires of revolution.’2","PeriodicalId":384625,"journal":{"name":"Everyday Revolutions: Remaking Gender, Sexuality and Culture in 1970s Australia","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126239227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A phone called PAF: CAMP counselling in the 1970s","authors":"Catherine Freyne","doi":"10.22459/er.2019.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/er.2019.09","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":384625,"journal":{"name":"Everyday Revolutions: Remaking Gender, Sexuality and Culture in 1970s Australia","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123069288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making the political personal: Gender and sustainable lifestyles in 1970s Australia","authors":"C. Pursell","doi":"10.22459/er.2019.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/er.2019.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":384625,"journal":{"name":"Everyday Revolutions: Remaking Gender, Sexuality and Culture in 1970s Australia","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114962105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women into print: Feminist presses in Australia","authors":"Trish Luker","doi":"10.22459/er.2019.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/er.2019.07","url":null,"abstract":"‘The freedom of the press belongs to those who control the press’ was one of the enduring slogans of the second-wave women’s movement. Reflecting the belief that the printed word could incite social change, feminists asserted their position in the public sphere of publishing, as authors, in print production and through the establishment of feminist presses. Reclaiming and celebrating women’s writing was a defining characteristic of second-wave feminism, and feminist literary and cultural historians took up the literature of Australian women writers from the nineteenth and early to mid-twentieth century.1 The Australian second-wave women’s movement emphasised cultural forms; it was a catalyst for feminist writing, in the form of journalism, autobiography, short fiction, novels, poetry and plays, as well as feminist history, political theory, gender and sexuality studies. These texts, in turn, form a body of cultural memory that informs how feminism marks its own past, providing a narrative for individual and collective remembering.2","PeriodicalId":384625,"journal":{"name":"Everyday Revolutions: Remaking Gender, Sexuality and Culture in 1970s Australia","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126210552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘A race of intelligent super‑giants’: The Whitlams, gendered bodies and political authority in modern Australia","authors":"Bethany Phillips-Peddlesden","doi":"10.22459/er.2019.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/er.2019.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":384625,"journal":{"name":"Everyday Revolutions: Remaking Gender, Sexuality and Culture in 1970s Australia","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133181921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creative work: Feminist representations of gendered and domestic violence in 1970s Australia","authors":"C. Kevin","doi":"10.22459/er.2019.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/er.2019.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":384625,"journal":{"name":"Everyday Revolutions: Remaking Gender, Sexuality and Culture in 1970s Australia","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116654696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Male chauvinists and ranting libbers: Representations of single men in 1970s Australia","authors":"Chelsea Barnett","doi":"10.22459/er.2019.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/er.2019.16","url":null,"abstract":"For the letter-writer—dubbed ‘Fed Up’, from Mt Gambier in South Australia—the life of the single man deserved pity, sympathy. Expectations of marriage lingered, as did those of financial security; a man had to be ‘well off’ to even contemplate marriage, ‘Fed Up’ reckoned. Read on its own, the letter reveals something of the uncertainty that shaped the lives of single men in the Australian 1970s. We might recognise the 1970s as a period in which the transformations of the 1960s continued to unfold with increasing visibility, but for ‘Fed Up’, at least, more conventional ideas about masculinity continued to burden unmarried men.2 The publication of the letter suggests a complex gender order operating in the 1970s, particularly as it functioned outside the continuing legitimacy of marriage.","PeriodicalId":384625,"journal":{"name":"Everyday Revolutions: Remaking Gender, Sexuality and Culture in 1970s Australia","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121842096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Of girls and spanners: Feminist politics, women’s bodies and the male trades","authors":"G. Clarsen","doi":"10.22459/er.2019.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/er.2019.02","url":null,"abstract":"In mid-2017, a federal Senate Committee inquiring into gender segregation in the Australian workforce tabled its final report, after nine months of deliberation.1 The committee was set up to investigate ongoing industrial and occupational gender segregation in Australia, its economic consequences for women and to recommend approaches for addressing it. The aims are wearingly familiar. How many such inquiries have been held at state and federal level, I wonder, following feminists’ renewed activism around women’s employment since the 1970s? How many individuals, organisations and agencies have undertaken research, collated data, compiled reports and volunteered their time to table submissions? How many research papers and reports languish in archives and desk drawers around the nation? What, indeed, will be the fate of this latest Senate Committee report?","PeriodicalId":384625,"journal":{"name":"Everyday Revolutions: Remaking Gender, Sexuality and Culture in 1970s Australia","volume":"185 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116904966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Subversive stitches: Needlework as activism in Australian feminist art of the 1970s","authors":"E. Emery","doi":"10.22459/er.2019.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/er.2019.06","url":null,"abstract":"The 1970s saw a flourishing of interest in needlework as an activist material within feminist visual arts practice. Ridiculed and undervalued within the discourse of male-centred visual arts, needlework was reimagined for its limitless possibilities by feminist artists, ushering in an era of experimentation with formerly neglected materials. For feminist artists, needlework signified the despised domestic feminine, while simultaneously representing women’s resistance to and subversion of male dominance. Needlework was a reminder of women’s oppression under patriarchy but, concurrently, needlework carried with it its own culture, specific to women’s her-story. In an era when women’s liberation critiqued the domestic as oppressive to women’s lives, feminist artists working with needlework saw a radical possibility in bringing attention to the domestic as not simply a site of oppression, but of creativity. This chapter discusses the emergence of feminist needlework in the 1970s and its relationship to the burgeoning politics of second-wave feminism, using the Sydneybased Women’s Domestic Needlework Group (1976–80) as a case study. Particular attention is given to artwork produced by feminist artist","PeriodicalId":384625,"journal":{"name":"Everyday Revolutions: Remaking Gender, Sexuality and Culture in 1970s Australia","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128840736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Put on dark glasses and a blind man’s head’: Poetic defamation and the question of feminist privacy in 1970s Australia","authors":"N. Moore","doi":"10.22459/er.2019.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/er.2019.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":384625,"journal":{"name":"Everyday Revolutions: Remaking Gender, Sexuality and Culture in 1970s Australia","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115798751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}