"The Personal is Political' ' (Australia)

Abstract

Everything combined to make 1973 a good year to start Women's Studies at Flinders University. We'd had some success in the anti-Vietnam movement and many of us were fee ling that we could exercise some power in society. The Women's Movement had been around long enough for "progressive men" to pay lip service to it, though few of them thought it had much application to their own lives. The long boom of the sixties had resulted in many sections of the Australian community being relatively well-off. An expansion of the student body was achieved by the abandonment of fees, then the introduction of freely available loans, and finally by payment of student allowances. The range of courses was expanded also, and in this atmosphere of liberality, some educational innovations were possible.