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Feminism
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Kim Toffoletti | Melbourne | Mar. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2 Allegations of sexual misconduct by sportsmen seem to appear in the Australian news media on a disturbingly regular basis. Why is it that male athletes of major sports like football and rugby are often linked to incidents of bad behaviour toward women? Do men's sports breed a neg... » play video
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Joan Chittister | Melbourne | Dec. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 Sister Joan Chittister, one of the most prominent figures and strident voices at the Parliament of the World's Religions, speaks in this session about the issues closest to her heart, and for which she's become famous for: women in church and society, feminism, human rights a... » play video
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Helen Irving | Sydney | Oct. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 In this Key Thinkers lecture (Sydney Ideas), Professor Helen Irving looks at the life and work of Mary Wollstonecraft. Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the first theorist systematically to give voice to what we now call feminism. Her Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) was a radi... » play video
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Emily Maguire | Canberra | Mar. 2009
In this talk (subtitled "When lived experience collides with the myth of a post-feminist world"), Emily Maguire (author, Princesses and Pornstars) looks at the role and status of feminism today; and how women born after 1970s successes of the women's liberation movements have come to rea... » play video
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This event, organised as part of the Melbourne Conversations series (City of Melbourne), addresses the topic of gender in contemporary society. One hundred years since women in Victoria gained the right to vote through parliament, the speakers discuss justice, work, relationships, quality, participa... » play video
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This event, organised as part of the Melbourne Conversations series (City of Melbourne), addresses the topic of gender in contemporary society. One hundred years since women in Victoria gained the right to vote through parliament, the speakers discuss justice, work, relationships, quality, participa... » play video
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This event, organised as part of the Melbourne Conversations series (City of Melbourne), addresses the topic of gender in contemporary society. One hundred years since women in Victoria gained the right to vote through parliament, the speakers discuss justice, work, relationships, quality, participa... » play video
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Germaine Greer | Adelaide | Mar. 2008
Robyn Davidson, Georgia Blain and Deborah Robertson join Germaine Greer in this Adelaide Writers' Week panel to discuss the legacy of Greer's The Female Eunuch.(Part 1 of 2) Click here for Part 2... » play video
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Germaine Greer | Adelaide | Mar. 2008
Robyn Davidson, Georgia Blain and Deborah Robertson join Germaine Greer in this Adelaide Writers' Week panel to discuss the legacy of Greer's The Female Eunuch.(Part 2 of 2)... » play video
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