'Make pies not war': Protests by the women's peace movement of the mid 1980s

Australian Historical Studies

Volumn 37, Issue 127, 2006, Pages 81-94

  Murray, Suellen ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 34347283106     PISSN: 1031461X     EISSN: 19405049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10314610608601205     Document Type: Article

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13. Lake, 64, 161
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32. For discussion of tensions in relation to the politics of lesbianism in the Australian women's liberation movement, see Katy Reade, 'Struggling to be Heard: Tensions between Different Voices in the Australian Women's Liberation Movement in the 1970s and 1980s', in Contemporary Australian Feminism, ed. Kate Pritchard Hughes (Sydney: Longman Australia, 1994), 212-15
33. 'Piecing it Together: Feminism and Non-Violence', WAND Newsletter, 10 September 1984, 14. Collectivism was not necessarily unproblematic; for discussion of another Perth collective from around this time, see Suellen Murray, More than Refuge: Changing Responses to Domestic Violence (Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2002), 67-76
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39. Vallentine, 69-70
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50. see also Green, Nuclear Menace, 37-9
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53. PND Newsletter, May/June 1984: 3
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64. Cited in Kathy, 'Militarism is a Womyn's Issue', WAND Newsletter, 10 September 1984, 12
65. Robinson, 24
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67. A. J. Barker, 'Yanks in Western Australia: The Impact of United States Servicemen', in On the Homefront: Western Australia and World War II, ed. Jenny Gregory (Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 1996), 128
68. Ibid
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