1. Archives Lecture 7 September 2012
Feminism for the 21st Century
Marian Sawer
School of Politics and International Relations
The Australian National University
Argument for mirror representation -

2. What a feminist looks like
The fortunes of feminism

3. What a feminist looks like 2
Harold Bird, Poster for
the National League for Opposing Women’s Suffrage 1912

4. What an anti-feminist looks like
‘Votes for women bogies’, anon. Suffrage Atelier 1912.
The bogies conjured up include petticoat government, the unwashed babe and the unsexed woman.

5. Political power = trousers
Vida Goldstein trying to persuade women of Anti-Suffrage League to try on men’s trousers: ‘Take away the horrid things’.
Punch 1900, Age 28 Dec 1984, p.11.

6. IWD Germany 1914 What a feminist looks like3
Vida Goldstein ‘first woman to stand for parliament’ - Victorian candidate for the Senate 1903

7. IWD Germany 1914 Political power = trousers2
Larry Pickering, 20 January 2012
(one of series of cartoons of Julia Gillard wielding or wearing a dildo)

8. Governor General swearing in PM 2010
Governor General wears her grandmother’s corsage to swear in Australia’s first woman PM, 24 June 2010.
See comments on Facebook page ‘Julia Gillard Australia’s Worst PM’

9. Tasmanian Cabinet February 1992
The face of government.
How was this changed - in Australian context strong party system meant that party quotas adopted by Labor had very important effect - party women showed no longer prepared to accept subordinate role, making tea not policy. In other countries legislative or Constitutional quotas have been the path to greater representation of women.

10. DOWN WITH BOURGEOIS FEMINISM
IWD, GERMANY 1914

11. A visual jolt
Robin Morgan logo from Miss America demo 1968, being used by Norwegian Women’s Front 2008.

12. WEL banner with logo

13. IWY symbol
Symbol combining equality, peace and women, later used by UN Commission on the Status of Women
and Unifem.

14. IWD TAKES ON BOURGEOIS COLOURS
SYDNEY IWD 1984

15. What a feminist looks like? 4
Front cover Ms magazine, January 2009

16. UN Women
The peace dove has disappeared from the new UN Women logo but it still contains hope for women and equality.

17. Archives Lecture, 13 September
Feminism for the 21st Century
Marian Sawer
School of Politics and International Relations
The Australian National University
Argument for mirror representation -