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Memories of Entanglement: Conflicts Around Sexuality at the Sydney Women’s Commission 1973

Emma Torzilloa National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College London, London, UKView further author information
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Heather Goodallb Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 86-105 | Published online: 03 Jul 2022

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  • First Ten Years of Sydney Women’s Liberation Collection, c.1969-c.1980, [FTY] MLMSS 9782/1-90, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW
  • Partially restricted. The State Library has reviewed this paper and advised that it meets the access and publication requirements of the restrictions. (7 July 2020)
  • All material can be viewed but restrictions exist on identification of individuals in the following material marked with *. The women interviewed for this paper have approved the use of their names from material in the FTY archive in relation to their own contributions.
  • Women’s Liberation Press Release, 18th December 1972, on the planning of a Women’s Commission, MLMSS9782, Box 31.
  • * Women’s Liberation Theory Conference, Mt Beauty, Victoria, January 1973. Box 31.
  • * “Women as Sex Objects” transcript of discussion at Women’s Commission 11th March 1973, MLMSS 9782, Box 31.
  • “Can you sexually love a woman?” Leaflet, Women’s Commission, March 1973 by CWA, Sydney, MLMSS9782, Box 31 (Women’s Commission), Box 31.
  • *“Mejane Discussion Group”, transcript of discussion, April 1973, Glebe, Sydney, MLMSS 9782, Box 50.

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