Share houses and women's liberation: a forgotten history
- Written by Molly Mckew, PhD candidate, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne
Share houses of the late 1960s and 1970s provided women with a new way of living, independent of families and husbands.ShutterstockThe 1970s was a decade of political agitation, when activism won women a range of legal and cultural freedoms, from no-fault divorce to work rights to escaping the “ladies’ lounge” in pubs. One...





