Research Catalog

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