Brazen Hussies
''Brazen Hussies'' is a 2020 Australian documentary feature recording the history of the Women's liberation movement in Oceania#Australia, Women's Liberation Movement in Australia from 1965 to 1975. Synopsis The film covers the evolution of second-wave feminism in Australia. It includes footage taken by ASIO, as well as actor Sigrid Thornton, then aged 12, waving a women's liberation flag with her mum, Merle Thornton, Merle, who started the movement in Brisbane when she chained herself to a pub counter in which women were not allowed to drink. The movement coincided with the Australia in the Vietnam War, anti-Vietnam war movement, the anti-apartheid movement. Production It is Catherine Dwyer's first film as director and Sue Maslin was executive producer. Maslin later said that the filmmakers had great difficulty in getting it financed. The film was so named because the women's movement had reclaimed the formerly pejorative term, wearing it as a "badge of honour". Release Fo ...
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Catherine Dwyer (filmmaker)
Catherine Dwyer or Kathryn Dwyer may refer to: * Catherine Dwyer (filmmaker), Australian writer and director of the feature documentary ''Brazen Hussies'' *Catherine Winifred Dwyer, Australian educator and suffragist *Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan, American geologist {{Hndis, Dwyer, Catherine ...
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