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Susan Magarey
English and History Departments, Adelaide University
'Feminism as Cultural Renaissance'
The Women's Liberation Movement saw its goal as the total transformation of power-relations throughout the world. It was a goal which made it an integral element of the Cultural Revolution of the west. One aspect of that revolution emerged in the mid- to late-1970s as a cultural renaissance: feminist theatre, film, fiction, poetry, music, photography, painting, radio and television - all flourished. This was feminist politics as satire, as critique, as exploration, as celebration. This paper is an outline of a chapter in the History of the Women's Liberation Movement that Ann Curthoys and I are writing. It will examine the inter-relations in the cultural renaissance and the ways in which they connected with other dimensions of the movement.
Bio: Susan Magarey is the Founding Editor of Australian Feminist Studies and formerly Director of the Research Centre for Women's Studies at Adelaide University. Her most recent book is Passions of the First Wave Feminists (UNSW Press).
<susan.magarey@adelaide.edu.au>