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Save our sons : women, dissent and conscription during the Vietnam War / Carolyn Collins.

By: Publisher: Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: xxix, 338 pages : illustrations, portraits, plates ; 24 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781925835960 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 322.40994 959.7043 23
Contents:
Introduction : 'A distress call' -- 1. Dress rehearsal -- Part 1 : Roll call -- 2. Rebels with a cause -- 3. The 'founding mothers' -- 4. 'Mothers are on the march' -- Part 2 : Taking it to the street, 1960s -- 5. 'Heads bowed, hands clasped', 1965-66 -- 6. Gloves off, 1967-69 -- 7. On the world stage -- 8. 'Fan mail' -- Part 3 : Keeping up appearances, 1970s -- 9. Moratoriums, chain gangs and 'falsies' -- 10. The fairlea five and the 'underground' -- 11. The final push -- 12. Rolling up the banners.
Summary: Save Our Sons tells for the first time the full story of the Save Our Sons movement of Australian women who banded together to oppose conscription during the Vietnam War.In 1965, angered by the Menzies’ government’s decision to conscript young men to fight in the Vietnam War, a group of Sydney housewives issued a national ‘distress call – SOS – to mothers everywhere’. Their clarion call was answered by women across Australia, who formed groups of their own in Townsville, Brisbane, Newcastle, Wollongong, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. Of varying ages, backgrounds and religious and political persuasions, they united under the Save Our Sons banner, determined to end the so-called ‘lottery of death’. In 1965, nobody envisaged this would take eight long years, or that some would be jailed in the process.SOS members initially stood out as respectable voices of middle-class dissent in their sensible shoes, hats and gloves, but as the war dragged on some became more radical: staging sit-ins at government buildings, chaining themselves to Canberra’s Parliament House, wearing anti-war fashions to the Melbourne Cup, hijacking an evangelical rally, and organising an ‘underground’ to hide draft resisters. In 1971, the jailing of five Melbourne SOS mums over Easter sparked national outrage, and was seen by some as a turning point in the anti-war campaign. Set against a backdrop of percolating social change in Australia, Save Our Sons is the first national history of the SOS movement and those who answered its call -- Publishers website.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 322.40994 COL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available for reference in the library (Available for research in the library) 90665

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : 'A distress call' -- 1. Dress rehearsal -- Part 1 : Roll call -- 2. Rebels with a cause -- 3. The 'founding mothers' -- 4. 'Mothers are on the march' -- Part 2 : Taking it to the street, 1960s -- 5. 'Heads bowed, hands clasped', 1965-66 -- 6. Gloves off, 1967-69 -- 7. On the world stage -- 8. 'Fan mail' -- Part 3 : Keeping up appearances, 1970s -- 9. Moratoriums, chain gangs and 'falsies' -- 10. The fairlea five and the 'underground' -- 11. The final push -- 12. Rolling up the banners.

Save Our Sons tells for the first time the full story of the Save Our Sons movement of Australian women who banded together to oppose conscription during the Vietnam War.In 1965, angered by the Menzies’ government’s decision to conscript young men to fight in the Vietnam War, a group of Sydney housewives issued a national ‘distress call – SOS – to mothers everywhere’. Their clarion call was answered by women across Australia, who formed groups of their own in Townsville, Brisbane, Newcastle, Wollongong, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. Of varying ages, backgrounds and religious and political persuasions, they united under the Save Our Sons banner, determined to end the so-called ‘lottery of death’. In 1965, nobody envisaged this would take eight long years, or that some would be jailed in the process.SOS members initially stood out as respectable voices of middle-class dissent in their sensible shoes, hats and gloves, but as the war dragged on some became more radical: staging sit-ins at government buildings, chaining themselves to Canberra’s Parliament House, wearing anti-war fashions to the Melbourne Cup, hijacking an evangelical rally, and organising an ‘underground’ to hide draft resisters. In 1971, the jailing of five Melbourne SOS mums over Easter sparked national outrage, and was seen by some as a turning point in the anti-war campaign. Set against a backdrop of percolating social change in Australia, Save Our Sons is the first national history of the SOS movement and those who answered its call -- Publishers website.

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