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Personal politics : sexuality, gender and the remaking of citizenship in Australia / Leigh Boucher [and three others].

Personal politics : sexuality, gender and the remaking of citizenship in Australia / Leigh Boucher [and three others].
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ISBN 9781922979605
Author Boucher, Leigh, 1979- (author)
Title Personal politics : sexuality, gender and the remaking of citizenship in Australia / Leigh Boucher [and three others].
Publisher and/or associated date/s Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, [2024].
©2024
Description 313 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary The achievement of marriage equality in Australia in 2017 was hailed by many as the crowning event of a fifty-year story of hard work by activists, which began with campaigns to decriminalise sex between men in the early 1970s. In that same five decades, feminist activism, including campaigns for abortion rights, the reform of family law and forms of welfare to support survivors of domestic violence, has similarly remade the rights and entitlements of Australian women. But has that story been one of continual progress and success? And who has been excluded from the privileges of Australian citizenship in the process? Personal Politics brings together the voices and campaigns of a diverse set of activists who employed ideas about gender and sexuality to remake modern Australia. Beginning in the pivotal decade of the '70s in which the 'personal became political', this book critically examines the wins and losses of these new ways of imagining citizenship and provides a revised political history of the past fifty years. This is a story populated and propelled by outraged feminists, radical homosexuals, angry fathers, maligned stay-at-home mothers, distressed trans kids, happy lesbian and gay couples, and even a few from the local Men's Shed. These are the issues and identities that now dominate our public life: how and why did they emerge and what kind of political life have they produced?
Subjects Gay rights -- Australia -- History
Women's rights -- Australia -- History
Identity politics -- Australia -- History
Citizenship -- Australia
Australia -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Australia -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Australia -- Politics and government -- 1945-
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