WEEK 9 TUTORIAL: ‘The Sixties’

(10 May – )

Tutorial question

What were the roots of social and political protest in the 1960s and 1970s?

'Never trust anyone over 30' (Jerry Rubin) - Is it possible to talk about a 'Vietnam generation' and if so, what are its characteristics? If not, account for the myth. 'Plus ças change, plus c'est la même chose' - how much changed after the Vietnam War, and how much remained the same? How much of the change was due to Vietnam, and how much to other factors? Why was 1968 such a significant year for protest around the world? To what extent did the liberation movements of the 1970s address peculiarly Australian conditions, and to what extent were they part of international trends? How did second wave feminism, Aboriginal activism and gay liberation movements affect Australian society?

Essential reading

Cochrane P 'At War At Home' in Pemberton G (ed.) Vietnam Remembered , Sydney 1990.
Horne D Time of Hope: Australia 1966-72 Sydney 1980, chs 2-3

Additional reading

York B 'Power to the Young' in V Burgmann & J Lee (eds) Staining the Wattle Melbourne 1988
Burgmann V Power and Protest: Movements for change in Australian Society Sydney 1993, Introduction and Conclusion
Gerster R and J Bassett Seizures of Youth: The sixties in Australia Melbourne 1991 ch 2 (Note also John Herouvim 'The Pitfalls of Iconophilia' Overland 126 Autumn 1992 and Gertster's reply in the next issue)
Alomes, Stephen 'Cultural Radicalism in the Sixties' Arena 62 1983

Other

General:

*Altman D Rehearsals for Change: Politics and Culture in Australia Melbourne 1980
Cockington J Mondo Weirdo Sydney 1992
Crowley F Tough Times: Australia in the Seventies Melbourne 1986
*Curthoys, A '"Vietnam": Public Memory of an Anti-War Movement' in Darian-Smith, Kate and Paula Hamilton (eds) Memory and History in Twentieth Century Australia Melbourne 1994
Grey, Jeffrey and Jeff Doyle (eds) Vietnam: War, Myth and Memory Sydney 1992
* Grey, J 'Vietnam, Anzac and the Veteran' in Pierce P et al (eds)Vietnam Days: Australia and the impact of Vietnam Melbourne 1991
Gordon R (ed)The Australian New Left Ringwood 1970
Langley, Greg A Decade of Dissent: Vietnam and the Conflict on the Australian Home Front Sydney 1992
Rintoul S (ed) Ashes of Vietnam: Australian Voices Melbourne 1987
Roszak T The Making of a Counter Culture New York 1969
York B 'The sixties revisited' Melbourne Journal of Politics 16 1984-5

On Vietnam and protest:

Albinski H Politics and Foreign Policy in Australia: The Impact of Vietnam and Conscription Duke University 1970
Cairns J Silence Kills Melbourne 1970
Edwards, Peter A Nation at War: Australian Politics, Society and Diplomacy during the Vietnam War 1965-1975 Sydney 1997
*Frost F Australia's War in Vietnam Sydney 1987
King P (ed) Australia's Vietnam Sydney 1983
Langley G A Decade of Dissent: Vietnam and the conflict on the Australian home front Sydney 1992
Maddock K & B Wright (eds) War: Australia and Vietnam Sydney 1987
Main J (ed) Conscription: The Australian Debate 1901-70 Melbourne 1970
McHugh S Minefields and Miniskirts: Australian Women and the Vietnam War Sydney 1993
*Murphy, John Harvest of Fear: A History of Australia's Vietnam War Sydney 1993 ch 12-13
Pemberton G All the Way: Australia's road to Vietnam Sydney 1987
Saunders M 'The trade unions in Australia and opposition to Vietnam and conscription, 1965-73' Labour History 43 November 1982
York B 'Police, students and dissent: Melbourne 1966-72' Journal of Australian Studies 1984

On the women's movement:

Clarke J & K White Women in Australian Politics Melbourne 1983
Curthoys A For and Against Feminism Sydney 1988
Curthoys A 'The Women's Movement and Social Justice' in D Broom Unfinished Business Sydney 1984
Grimshaw P 'Only the Chains Have Changed' in V Burgmann & J Lee (eds) Staining the Wattle Melbourne 1988
Lake M & F Kelly (eds) Double Time: Women in Victoria - 150 Years Melbourne 1985
Refracting Voices: Feminist perspectives from Refractory Girl Sydney 1993
Sawer M & M Simms A Woman's Place Sydney 1984
Summers A Damned Whores and God's Police Ringwood 2nd ed, 1995

On Aboriginal activism:

Altman J & J Nieuwenhuysen The Economic Status of Australian Aborigines Melbourne 1979
Broome R Aboriginal Australians Sydney 1982
Goodall H 'Cryin' Out For Land Rights' and G Foley 'Teaching Whites a Lesson' V Burgmann & J Lee (eds) Staining the Wattle Melbourne 1988
Miller J Koori: A Will to Win Sydney 1985 chs.10, 11
Rowse T 'Assimilation and After' in Curthoys et.al (eds) Australians Since 1939 Sydney 1987

On gay politics:

Altman D Coming Out in the Seventies Sydney 1979
Wotherspoon G Being Different Sydney 1986
Wotherspoon G The City of the Plain Sydney 1992

Literary responses:

Moorhouse F Days of Wine and Rage Melbourne 1980 (for the ambience of the counter-culture)
Burke J Speaking Melbourne 1984 (playing with memory and the 'Vietnam generation')