Aufsatz(elektronisch)#126. Juli 2022
The Royal Commission on human relationships and Australian masculinity in the 1970s
In: Gender & history, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 691-710
ISSN: 1468-0424
AbstractIn 1970s Australia, a Royal Commission on Human Relationships asked people to have their say about all aspects of national life bearing upon relations between the sexes and family life. Historians have focused on the Commission's implications for women and feminist public policy in a period of profound social change. In this paper, we shift attention to the Commission's interrogation of the male role in society. We argue that the Commission broadcast and inculcated the possibility that men could change, even if the imminent revolutionising of the male role proved a bridge too far.