Dangerous ideas : : women's liberation - women's studies - around the world / / by Susan Magarey .

• VerfasserIn: Magarey, Susan,
• TeilnehmendeR: University of Adelaide Press,
• Place / Publishing House: Adelaide : : The University of Adelaide Press,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 310 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Oct 2017).

This collection of essays focuses on the history and politics of the Women's Liberation Movement and Women's Studies, in Australia and around the world.

Table of Contents

The sexual revolution as big flop: Women's Liberation Lesson One -- Sisterhood and Women's Liberation in Australia -- 'Holding the Horrors of the World at Bay': 'The Feminist Food Guide', 1972-75 -- And now we are six: a plea for Women's Liberation -- Feminism as cultural renaissance -- Does the family have a future? -- Women and technological change -- Dreams and desires: four 1970s feminist visions of utopia -- The tampon -- Women's Studies — towardstransdisciplinary learning? -- Are we changing paradigms? The impact of feminism upon the world of scholarship -- Setting up the first Research Centre forWomen's Studies in Australia, 1983-86 -- The role of a Women's Studies Centre in the university -- Outsiders inside? Women's Studies in Australia at the end of the twentieth century -- The position of women in China: 1978 -- A milkrun in the United States of America: 1986 -- Perestroika has been bad for women':Russia 1991 -- Scholarship for a cause: San José, Costa Rica, 1993 -- 'Gender Studies: Towards the Year 2000': Greece 1993 -- Looking at the world through women's eyes: United Nations in Beijing, 1995.