The Womyn’s Revolution

The Womyn’s Revolution is set in the heady days of 1973, at the height of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Melbourne, Australia, and at a time when lesbian feminists were starting to make their presence felt.

It tells the story of two 16 year olds, Kieren and Tess, who are friends at the beginning of the book and lesbian lovers by the end of it. These young womyn are still at school when they start to learn the hard way about how womyn are oppressed and what they can do about it by becoming involved in various WLM activities and womyn’s activist collectives.

This book also describes Kieren’s relationship with her academic mother, Gene, and Tess with her Greek mother, Rhea, as well as some of the aspects of Melbourne culture at that time. And includes short stories written by Kieren who imagines herself as a writer some day, to illustrate and expand on the themes in the main story.

About the Author: 

Jean Taylor is radical lesbian feminist writer, publisher, archivist, artist, activist and great grandmother who lives on the stolen Lands that were never ceded of the Wurundjeri Woiwurrung people of the Kulin Nation in Bulleke-bek Merri-bek Naarm. She has written, edited, and published many novels, plays, poems, short stories, anthologies and non-fiction books since 1967 and in her old age is still enjoying doing so, albeit at a slower pace.