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Power and protest : movements for change in Australian society / Verity Burgmann.
- Title
- Power and protest : movements for change in Australian society / Verity Burgmann.
- Author
- Burgmann, Verity
- Publication
- St. Leonards, N.S.W., Australia : Allen & Unwin, 1993.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 302 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Subject
- Social movements > Australia > Case studies
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Social movements new and old. New movements, new times? Social movements and political change. The movements for change in this study. The aims of this study -- 1. Black movement, white stubbornness. White society and the black movement. The development of the black movement. The land rights movement. Land rights legislation. The white resistance. Prospects: sources of white support -- 2. Two steps forward, one step back? The women's movement. Earlier waves. The development of the contemporary women's movement. Ideological divisions. Organizational divisions. Women helping women: ideology and practice. Making demands: winning some, losing some. The women's movement and the state. Some problems. Prospects -- 3. 'Out and proudly out': the lesbian and gay movements. The homosexual experience. Heterosexual dominance/homosexual subordination. Homophobia. The mixed gay movement. Lesbian liberation. Achievements and prospects -- 4. The politics of survival: the peace and green movements.
- Some important campaigns. Some current organisations. Electoral activity and influence. Resistance. Ideological conflicts. The limits of liberal ecology. The labour movement and the environment -- Conclusion. The workers' movement and the new social movements. Hawke Labor and the new social movements. Prospects.
- ISBN
- 186373211X
- LCCN
- ^^^93144165^
- OCLC
- 27622041
- SCSB-12220212
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library