Making Change: The Australian Women's Liberation Movement in Catherine Dwyer's 'Brazen Hussies'

While screen works about the feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s have flourished in recent times, its vigorous Australian manifestation has been relatively overlooked – a cultural gap that Catherine Dwyer's documentary seeks to rectify. Featuring testimony from the women at its forefront and a wealth of archival material, the film both captures the energy and spirit of the era and serves as an important historical document, as Glenn Dunks discusses.

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Sue Maslin, Philippa Campey, Andrew Foxworthy, Kate Jennings, Germaine Greer, Zelda D'Aprano, Elizabeth Reid, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke, Julia Gillard, #MeToo, She's Beautiful When She's Angry, Mrs. America, Town Bloody Hall, marriage equality, transgender, TERF, Pussy Riot, Black Lives Matter, Reclaim the Night, lesbian, Anarcho Surrealist Insurrectionary Feminist, Helen Reddy, Aboriginal women's movement