Dangerous Ideas: Women's Liberation - Women's Studies - Around the World

Dangerous Ideas explores sex and love politics and performance joy and anguish in a collection of essays focused on the history and politics of the Womens Liberation Movement and one of its offshoots Womens Studies in Australia and around the world.These are serious matters: they are about tectonic changes in peoples lives and ideas in the late twentieth century too little remembered or understood any longer. Feminism this book suggests is always multiple and various fluid and changing defying efforts at definition characterisation periodisation. Nevertheless Dangerous Ideas tackles some hard questions. How did Womens Liberation begin? What held this transformative movement together? Would it bring about the death of the family? Was it reorganising the labour market? Revolutionising human reproduction? How could Womens Studies exist in patriarchal universities? Could feminism change the paradigms governing the world of learning? In the United States? In Russia? In the Peoples Republic of China?It is great fun too. This book tells of Hobarts hilarious Feminist Food Guide; of an outburst of creative energies among feminists - women on top behaving badly; of dreams and desires for an entirely different future. And always unorthodox: it finds hope and cheer in a history of the tampon.