My Brilliant Career and its uncompromising message for girls today
- Written by Ann Vickery, Associate Professor in Writing and Literature, Deakin University
National Film & Sound ArchiveGrowing up in Australia in the 1970s, I much preferred the hijinks of Han Solo and Chewie to Princess Leia’s sexualised damsel in distress. My sister and I spent an entire summer pigging out on Choc Wedges and Barney Bananas so we could collect the men’s cricket team on specially marked sticks. Feminism...





