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Archives Lecture 7 September 2012

Explore the evolution and current state of feminism, its impact on society, and the ongoing struggle for gender equality. This lecture by Marian Sawer from The Australian National University highlights the diverse perspectives and visual representations of feminists and anti-feminists throughout history.

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Archives Lecture 7 September 2012

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  1. Archives Lecture7 September 2012 Feminism for the 21st Century Marian Sawer School of Politics and International Relations The Australian National University

  2. What a feminist looks like The fortunes of feminism

  3. What a feminist looks like 2 • Harold Bird, Poster for the National League for Opposing Women’s Suffrage 1912

  4. What an anti-feminist looks like • ‘Votes for women bogies’, anon. Suffrage Atelier 1912. • The bogies conjured up include petticoat government, the unwashed babe and the unsexed woman.

  5. Political power = trousers • Vida Goldstein trying to persuade women of Anti-Suffrage League to try on men’s trousers: ‘Take away the horrid things’. • Punch 1900, Age 28 Dec 1984, p.11.

  6. What a feminist looks like3 IWD Germany 1914 • Vida Goldstein ‘first woman to stand for parliament’ - Victorian candidate for the Senate 1903

  7. Political power = trousers2 IWD Germany 1914 • Larry Pickering, 20 January 2012 • (one of series of cartoons of Julia Gillard wielding or wearing a dildo)

  8. Governor General swearing in PM 2010 • Governor General wears her grandmother’s corsage to swear in Australia’s first woman PM, 24 June 2010. • See comments on Facebook page ‘Julia Gillard Australia’s Worst PM’

  9. Tasmanian Cabinet February 1992

  10. DOWN WITH BOURGEOIS FEMINISM • IWD, GERMANY 1914

  11. A visual jolt • Robin Morgan logo from Miss America demo 1968, being used by Norwegian Women’s Front 2008.

  12. WEL banner with logo

  13. IWY symbol • Symbol combining equality, peace and women, later used by UN Commission on the Status of Women and Unifem.

  14. IWD TAKES ON BOURGEOIS COLOURS • SYDNEY IWD 1984

  15. What a feminist looks like? 4 • Front cover Ms magazine, January 2009

  16. UN Women • The peace dove has disappeared from the new UN Women logo but it still contains hope for women and equality.

  17. Archives Lecture, 13 September Feminism for the 21st Century Marian Sawer School of Politics and International Relations The Australian National University

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