Save Our Sons: Women, Dissent and Conscription During the Vietnam War (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781925835960)

Save Our Sons tells for the first time the full story of the Save Our Sons movement of Australian women who banded together to oppose conscription during the Vietnam War. In 1965, angered by the Menzies' government's decision to conscript young men to fight in the Vietnam War, a group of Sydney housewives issued a national 'distress call - SOS - to mothers everywhere'. Their clarion call was answered by women across Australia, who formed groups of their own in Townsville, Brisbane, Newcastle, Wollongong, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. Of varying ages, backgrounds and religious and political persuasions, they united under the Save Our Sons banner, determined to end the so-called 'lottery of death'. In 1965, nobody envisaged this would take eight long years, or that some would be jailed in the process. Set against a backdrop of percolating social change in Australia, Save Our Sons is the first national history of the SOS movement and those who answered its call.

Author: Carolyn Collins
ISBN-10: 1925835960
ISBN-13: 9781925835960
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2021
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.10d