Poetry: Gwen Harwood Context

Question 0

1950/60s period

Answer 0

• introduction of pill
  
  • new sexual freedom for women
  • able to ‘control’ motherhood
• fight for women’s rights/votes
  
  • second wave of feminism

Question 1

Who was Gwen Harwood?

Answer 1

Peak of career = 1950/60s

• feminist writer
• mother and had career
• wrote fit the maths ionised and oppressed in her society