The 1970s were a time of profound social and political transformation when women’s and gay liberation movements sought to reshape the public meaning of private experience. Through 3 case studies (early campaigns for homosexual rights, the emergence of domestic violence as a key issue for women’s liberationists and the 1975 Royal Commission on Human Relationships), Michelle Arrow seeks to demonstrate the ways that ‘the personal is political’ reshaped Australian political culture in the 1970s. 

Michelle Arrow is Associate Professor of History at Macquarie University. Her most recent book is Friday on Our Minds: Popular Culture in Australia Since 1945.

Associate Professor Arrow is a 2016 National Library of Australia Fellow, supported by Library Patrons and Supporters.