Brazen Hussies

Brazen Hussies (2020)

The Women who started a Feminist Revolution in Australia

Reveals a revolutionary chapter in Australian history, the Women’s Liberation Movement (1965 -1975). Interweaves fresh archival footage, personal photographs, memorabilia, and personal accounts from activists all around Australia to show how a daring and diverse group of women joined forces to defy the status quo, demand equality, and create profound social change. These women defined one of the greatest social movements of the 20th century, sometimes at great personal cost.

Date of release
2020-11-05
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Catherine Dwyer

Casting

Interesting facts

Brazen Hussies is a 2020 Australian documentary feature film recording the early period of second-wave feminism in Australia, charting the history of the Women's Liberation Movement in Australia, from 1965 to 1975. It was accompanied by the release of an album featuring songs from the film along with others, titled Brazen Hussies - Songs from the Film - and More.

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.

Dwyer previously worked on Mary Dore's documentary She's Beautiful When She's Angry (2014), as associate producer, researcher and assistant editor. This film focused on the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States.

The film was so named because the women's movement had reclaimed the formerly pejorative term, wearing it as a "badge of honour".

Some of the footage used in the film was sourced from the National Film and Sound Archive.

An accompanying compilation album titled Brazen Hussies - Songs from the Film - and More was released on 6 November 2020. Tracks included "Intoxicated", by 1980s Melbourne women's punk band Toxic Shock, sung by (later journalist and radio presenter) Fran Kelly and others.

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