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Things that liberate : an Australian feminist wunderkammer / edited by Alison Bartlett and Margaret Henderson.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: vii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781443844130 (hardback)
  • 1443844136 (hardback)
Other title:
  • Things that liberate
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.420994 23
Contents:
Working with feminist things: the wunderkammer as feminist methodology / Alison Bartlett and Margaret Henderson -- The wunderkammer -- Album: Horses / Margaret Henderson -- Badges / Gail Green -- Blouse / Sara Dowse -- Body hair / Enza Gandolfo -- Boltcutters / Silver Moon -- Books / Kathleen Mary Fallon -- Bras / Alison Bartlett -- Clapperboard / Martha Ansara -- Gestetner / Jean Taylor -- Kombi / Pearlie McNeil -- Newspaper: MeJane / Suzanne Bellamy -- Overalls / Lekkie Hopkins -- Photograph: Germaine Greer -- Megan Le Masurier -- Placard / Bronwyn Winter -- Pocket mirror / Adrienne Sallay -- Poem / Ania Walwicz -- Poster / Anna Szorenyi -- Radio / Jane Armstrong -- Sea Sponge / Susanne Gannon -- Suffrage tapestries / Kay Lawrence -- Tampon / Susan Magarey -- Tofu / Alexandra Winter -- Toys / Marguerite Johnson and Leni Johnson -- The women's symbol / Deni Fuller.
Summary: This collection of essays explores objects that changed Australian women's lives through their association with women's liberation, the Australian women's movement, and feminism since 1970. Each essay hinges on a particular object that is remembered for its symbolic value and practical use as an object of liberation, ranging from overalls and gestetners, to seasponges and kombis. It combines personal narrative, historical analysis, and memoir, creating a highly readable collection and a novel way of documenting, historicising the Australian women's movement. The contributors include high profile women and grass roots activists, academics and writers, and everyday women living the ideas of liberation and feminism from a range of locations. Things that Liberate is an experiment in thinking about the ways in which social movements can be documented and studied through material culture and memory.
List(s) this item appears in: Germaine Greer: Stage 6 History Women's Movements
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 305.420994 THI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 68168

Alison Bartlett and several contributors are residents of W.A.

Includes bibliographical references.

Working with feminist things: the wunderkammer as feminist methodology / Alison Bartlett and Margaret Henderson -- The wunderkammer -- Album: Horses / Margaret Henderson -- Badges / Gail Green -- Blouse / Sara Dowse -- Body hair / Enza Gandolfo -- Boltcutters / Silver Moon -- Books / Kathleen Mary Fallon -- Bras / Alison Bartlett -- Clapperboard / Martha Ansara -- Gestetner / Jean Taylor -- Kombi / Pearlie McNeil -- Newspaper: MeJane / Suzanne Bellamy -- Overalls / Lekkie Hopkins -- Photograph: Germaine Greer -- Megan Le Masurier -- Placard / Bronwyn Winter -- Pocket mirror / Adrienne Sallay -- Poem / Ania Walwicz -- Poster / Anna Szorenyi -- Radio / Jane Armstrong -- Sea Sponge / Susanne Gannon -- Suffrage tapestries / Kay Lawrence -- Tampon / Susan Magarey -- Tofu / Alexandra Winter -- Toys / Marguerite Johnson and Leni Johnson -- The women's symbol / Deni Fuller.

This collection of essays explores objects that changed Australian women's lives through their association with women's liberation, the Australian women's movement, and feminism since 1970. Each essay hinges on a particular object that is remembered for its symbolic value and practical use as an object of liberation, ranging from overalls and gestetners, to seasponges and kombis. It combines personal narrative, historical analysis, and memoir, creating a highly readable collection and a novel way of documenting, historicising the Australian women's movement. The contributors include high profile women and grass roots activists, academics and writers, and everyday women living the ideas of liberation and feminism from a range of locations. Things that Liberate is an experiment in thinking about the ways in which social movements can be documented and studied through material culture and memory.

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