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NEW FEMINIST GENERATIONS

When Sarah Maddison interviewed Suzanne Franzway in an ‘inter-generational feminist conversation’ in 2005, published in a special issue of this journal (Maddison and Franzway 2006), Sarah was the younger ‘sister’ in the conversation. She was engaged in research on young women in the Australian women’s movement and the conversation took the form of a retrospective review of Franzway’s seminal work Staking a Claim (Franzway, Court, and Connell 1989). Now the shoe is on the other foot. It seemed a fitting part of an issue dedicated to honouring the work of Chilla Bulbeck that Sarah, now the older ‘sister’ in a new conversation, continues the focus on inter-generational dialogue. So in mid-2009 Sarah interviewed Rosemary Grey, 24, a daughter of second-wave feminism in more ways than one. Rosemary commenced a PhD at UNSW in politics and law in 2010, researching gender justice in international criminal law. She admits to feeling conflicted about her capacity to speak as a representative of her generation, but found preparing for this piece prompted many involved conversations with her friends. Reflecting on those conversations, she sees her generation as literate and interested in feminist debates, even if not in consensus. Over the space of a couple of hours, the conversation between Sarah and Rosemary ranges over some complex feminist terrain, covering issues such as gratitude, ‘victim’ and other feminist identities, the state, consensus building, and so-called generational conflict. Readers are invited not to agree or disagree with the points of view expressed here but rather to consider the spaces that conversations like these might open up for further interrogation.