| Description |
xiii, 305 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Part 1: Introduction. 1. "The desire that many of us cherish". Part 2: The State Organisations. 2. The Women's Liberal League of NSW -- 3. The Australian Women's National League (Victoria) -- 4. The Queensland Women's Electoral League -- 5. The Tasmanians -- 6. Lady Forrest and the Australian Women's National League (WA) -- 7. The South Australians. Part 3: The Activists. 8. Political sisters: Janet Lady Clarke and Eva Hughes -- 9. The political daughter: Ivy Deakin Brookes -- 10. The professional organiser: Eleanor Cameron Glencross -- 11. An early candidate for office: Angela Booth -- 12. The first three -- 13. From political widow to post-war MP -- 14. South Australia's first elected women -- 15. Dame Elizabeth Couchman. Part 4: The Liberal Party. 16. The Liberal Party's founding mothers -- 17. The new party -- 18. The public face of the new party |
| Summary |
When Menzies formed the modern Liberal Party out of the squabbling rabble of the UAP in 1944, he had to cede to the women's organisations formal representation and real power. Liberal Women is the story of why. It is a tale of strong, vocal, persistent women who carried the liberal flame across Australia in the first half of the 20th century while the men split and merged, and talked and merged and split again. It is the story of women who grasped the implications of the female suffrage that followed Federation in a way that no others did: winning elections meant winning the female vote; and delivering the female vote gave political power. The Liberal women formed some of the most effective political organisations in the country. Liberal Women is the first detailed account of these women as political pioneers: as power-brokers and factional warriors, as candidates for office, and as members of parliament. Relying on extensive primary research, much of it previously unpublished, Margaret Fitzherbert describes their political organisations and activity amidst a wealth of biographical detail on women such as Enid Lyons, Elizabeth Couchman, Ivy Deakin, Lady Margaret Forrest and Irene Longman |
| Analysis |
Liberal Party of Australia |
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Women in politics - Australia - History |
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Australia - Politics and government - 20th century |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 288-293 |
| Subject |
Liberal Party of Australia -- History.
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Liberal Party of Australia -- Women.
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Liberal Party of Australia.
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Women -- Political activity -- Australia -- History.
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Women -- Political activity -- History.
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Women -- Political activity -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| LC no. |
2004445638 |
| ISBN |
1862874603 : |
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