‘Women are a colonised sex’: Elizabeth reid, human rights and international women’s year 1975
Journal article
Piccini, Jon. (2018). ‘Women are a colonised sex’: Elizabeth reid, human rights and international women’s year 1975. Australian Historical Studies. 49(3), pp. 307 - 323. https://doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2018.1482931
Authors | Piccini, Jon |
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Abstract | This article situates Australian Elizabeth Reid’s contribution to International Women’s Year (IWY) (1975) within ongoing historiographical discussions on development and human rights. The world’s first advisor on women’s affairs to a head of government, Reid used the burgeoning Women’s Liberation Movement’s critique of ‘sexism’ to challenge IWY’s goals of formal equality, a limited and undesirable outcomes that prevented women and men from instead becoming ‘more human’. These ideas were then used to challenge the dominance of economic development over individual and collective rights at the 1975 Mexico City conference, placing Reid as a participant in the 1970s human rights ‘breakthrough’. |
Year | 2018 |
Journal | Australian Historical Studies |
Journal citation | 49 (3), pp. 307 - 323 |
Publisher | Routledge |
ISSN | 1031-461X |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2018.1482931 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85051692717 |
Page range | 307 - 323 |
Research Group | School of Arts |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Controlled |
Place of publication | Australia |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/85144/-women-are-a-colonised-sex-elizabeth-reid-human-rights-and-international-women-s-year-1975
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