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Title Founders, firsts and feminists : women leaders in twentieth-century Australia / edited by Fiona Davis, Nell Musgrove and Judith Smart
Published [Melbourne] : eScholarship Research Centre, University of Melbourne, 2011

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Description 337 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
Contents Katie Langloh Parker and the beginnings of ethnography in Australia / Julie Evans -- 'Mother, teacher, adviser and missionary' : Matilda Ward in North Queensland, 1891-1917 / Joanna Cruickshank -- Eleanor Rivett (1883-1972) : educationalist, missionary and internationalist / Margaret Allen -- Gladys Nicholls : an urban Aboriginal leader in post-war Victoria / Patricia Grimshaw -- Kooris, Ghubbas and others : cross-cultural collaboration in the work of Aboriginal leader Mollie Dyer / Fiona Davis -- 'They will both go to heaven and have crowns and golden harps' : Dr Vera Scantlebury Brown and female leadership in a First World War military hospital / Heather Sheard -- Maude O'Connell and the 'need of the mother' / Anne O'Brien -- Teresa Wardell : gender, Catholicism and social welfare in Melbourne / Nell Musgrove -- 'It's a woman' : Molly Brennan and gender, social justice and leadership in the Victorian Education Department, 1960s and 1970s / Deborah Towns -- Reading the life narrative of Valerie French, the first woman to sign the Western Australian Bar Roll / Hollie Kerwin and Kim Rubenstein -- Audrey Ann Fagan (1962-2007) : the high cost for women leaders in policing / Susan Harwood and Helen McDermott -- Muriel Heagney (1885-1974) : pioneering Labour woman leader / Rosemary Francis -- Fran Bailey and the McEwan electorate : women's leadership in representative democracy / Jackie Dickenson -- Lee Rhiannon : a lifetime of political activism / Suellen Murray -- 'Passion around violence against women' : Billi Clarke and the Victorian Domestic Violence Services Movement / Jacqui Theobald -- Margaret Cooper : feminist and disability activist / Nikki Henningham -- Lady Helen Munro Ferguson and the Australian Red Cross : vice-regal leader and internationalist in the early twentieth century / Melanie Oppenheimer -- Constance Duncan : translating women's leadership and internationalism in Asia and Australia, 1922-1958 / Ellen Warne -- Ada Norris (1901-1989) : champion of the impossible / Judith Smart -- 'Stacks of friends' : Kathleen (Kay) Gordon Cameron (1899-1987) and the broadening international focus of the Country Women's Association of Victoria in the 1960s / Karen Crook
Summary Annotation pending
Analysis Australian
Notes "This collection is the outcome of a conference held in November 2010 as part of a Linkage Project funded by the Australian Research Council--LP100200304 Women and Leadership in a Century of Australian Democracy--and administered by the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne."--Acknowledgments
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Also available online
Subject Leadership in women -- Australia -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Leadership in women -- Australia -- 20th century.
Women -- Australia -- 20th century -- Biography.
Women -- Australia -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Women -- Australia -- 20th century.
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Congresses.
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Political activity.
Women, Aboriginal Australian.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Biographies.
Author Davis, Fiona.
Musgrove, Nell.
Smart, Judith, 1950-
University of Melbourne. eScholarship Research Centre
ISBN 9781921775680
Other Titles Women leaders in twentieth-century Australia
Women leaders in 20th century Australia