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Passions of the first wave feminists / Susan Magarey.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Sydney : UNSW Press, 2001Description: xii, 249 pages. : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0868407801
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.420994 23
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Introduction: This is How We Forget to Remember -- Sect. 1. A Movement of Women -- 2. The Rising of the Women -- The Indecency of Feminism -- Sources of Feminism -- An Insurrection of Instruction -- The New Woman, the Australian Girl and Her Desires -- 3. Women in Movement -- Conflict and Cohesion: Rose Scott and the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales -- The Goals of the Woman Movement -- Desires and Vision: Difference and Equality -- Sect. 2. The Woman Movement's Issues -- 4. Sex -- Hydraulic Male Sexuality and Some Hesitations at the Heart of Masculinity -- Feminists and Sex: The Personal and the Political -- The First Sexual Revolution in Settler-Australia -- 5. Work -- Alternatives to Marriage: Women Winning Their Own Livelihoods -- Old Men, New Men and a New Nation: Masculinist Reaction -- Re-Constructing Separate Spheres -- 6. Citizenship -- What We Will Do With the Vote -- Votes for Women -- Women in Parliament? -- Sect. 3. The Ends of the Woman Movement.
7. In Conclusion -- Passages -- A Parable -- New Directions -- What Differences Did the Woman Movement Make?
Review: "First Wave Feminists have been called 'wowsers', 'moralistic', 'spoilers of men's pleasures'. These women of the late nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth have been dismissed as fearsomely respectable, crushingly earnest, socially puritanical, politically limited and sexually repressed." "Passions of the First Wave Feminists is a radical re-appraisal of the God's Police history of Australian feminism. It offers a new view of suffrage-era feminism in Australia, and therefore a new view also of politics, nationalism and culture in the 1890s. It shows First Wave Feminists as passionate, challenging convention on every side, visionary, and centrally preoccupied with sex."--BOOK JACKET.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 305.420994 MAG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL Expired link: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1108/2002327054-d.html. Available via ProQuest eBook Central: https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=5311175 68274

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [225]-239.

1. Introduction: This is How We Forget to Remember -- Sect. 1. A Movement of Women -- 2. The Rising of the Women -- The Indecency of Feminism -- Sources of Feminism -- An Insurrection of Instruction -- The New Woman, the Australian Girl and Her Desires -- 3. Women in Movement -- Conflict and Cohesion: Rose Scott and the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales -- The Goals of the Woman Movement -- Desires and Vision: Difference and Equality -- Sect. 2. The Woman Movement's Issues -- 4. Sex -- Hydraulic Male Sexuality and Some Hesitations at the Heart of Masculinity -- Feminists and Sex: The Personal and the Political -- The First Sexual Revolution in Settler-Australia -- 5. Work -- Alternatives to Marriage: Women Winning Their Own Livelihoods -- Old Men, New Men and a New Nation: Masculinist Reaction -- Re-Constructing Separate Spheres -- 6. Citizenship -- What We Will Do With the Vote -- Votes for Women -- Women in Parliament? -- Sect. 3. The Ends of the Woman Movement.

7. In Conclusion -- Passages -- A Parable -- New Directions -- What Differences Did the Woman Movement Make?

"First Wave Feminists have been called 'wowsers', 'moralistic', 'spoilers of men's pleasures'. These women of the late nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth have been dismissed as fearsomely respectable, crushingly earnest, socially puritanical, politically limited and sexually repressed." "Passions of the First Wave Feminists is a radical re-appraisal of the God's Police history of Australian feminism. It offers a new view of suffrage-era feminism in Australia, and therefore a new view also of politics, nationalism and culture in the 1890s. It shows First Wave Feminists as passionate, challenging convention on every side, visionary, and centrally preoccupied with sex."--BOOK JACKET.

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