Back to our roots: Community clubs and Kicking Against The Pricks

By Siren Posted in Aussie Rules Women in Sport Media

Posted on August 25, 2020January 17, 2021

Kicking Against the Pricks is a documentary about women’s footy, the reclamation of the body and the feminist revolution happening in towns and communities across Australia.

A place of protest and empowerment: Women in Boots and the story of the 79ers

Posted on June 30, 2020January 17, 2021

Image is of the book Women in Boots: Football and Feminism in the 1970s. The book is orange and has two photos on the front cover. One in the top left hand corner is off a young woman kicking a soccer ball. The other in the bottom right is a picture of four women, they wear football boots and have pulled up the boots to show the bottoms to the camera.

A few weeks ago, we published a review of Marion Stell and Heather Reid’s Women In Boots: Football and Feminism in the 1970s by Professor Jean Williams. This week, we catch up with the authors Marion Stell and Heather Reid to discuss just why that 1979 series is so important. In the early hours of …