TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barrett Meyering,Isobelle
TI  - Feminism and the making of a child rights revolution: 1969-1979 
SN  - 9780522877830
U1  - 305.420994 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Carlton, Victoria
PB  - Melbourne University Publishing
KW  - Feminism
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Australia
KW  - Children's rights
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Children
KW  - Australian
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - When Australian women's liberationists challenged prevailing expectations of female domesticity, they were accused of being anti-mother and anti-child. Feminism and the Making of a Child Rights Revolution provides a much-needed reassessment of this stereotype. Drawing on extensive archival research and personal accounts, it places feminists at the forefront of a new wave of children's rights activism that went beyond calls for basic protections for children, instead demanding their liberation. Historian Isobelle Barrett Meyering revisits this revolutionary approach and charts the debates it sparked within the women's movement. Her examination of feminists' ground-breaking campaigns on major social issues of the 1970s-from childcare to sex education to family violence-also reveals women's concerted efforts to apply this ideal in their personal lives and to support children's own activism. Feminism and the Making of a Child Rights Revolution sheds light on the movement's expansive vision for social change and its lasting impact on the way we view the rights of women and children
ER  -