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.
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Leadership in women -- Australia -- 20th century.
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Women -- Australia -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Women -- Australia -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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Women -- Australia -- 20th century.
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Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Congresses.
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Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Political activity.
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Women, Aboriginal Australian.
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Biographies.
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Author |
Davis, Fiona.
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Musgrove, Nell.
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Smart, Judith, 1950-
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University of Melbourne. eScholarship Research Centre
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ISBN |
9781921775680 |
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