Friday essay: public ‘pash ons’ and angry dads – personal politics started with consciousness-raising feminists. Now, everyone’s doing it

By Leigh Boucher, Associate Professor, History, Macquarie University
Barbara Baird, Associate Professor, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University
Michelle Arrow, Professor of History, Macquarie University
Robert Reynolds, Professor of Modern History, Macquarie University

Personal activism has achieved major legislative change, such as no-fault divorce and the decriminalisation of homosexuality and abortion. But it’s also used by groups who want to reverse that change.

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