TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jones,Jennifer A.
TI  - Country women and the colour bar: grassroots activism and the Country Women's Association 
SN  - 9781925302967
U1  - 305.4889915 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Canberra, ACT
PB  - Aboriginal Studies Press
KW  - Country Women's Association of New South Wales
KW  - History
KW  - Women, Aboriginal Australian
KW  - New South Wales
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Rural women
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Women social reformers
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Australian
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-224) and index
N2  - Country women and the colour bar is a timely corrective to established ideas about race relations in rural New South Wales by revealing the untold story of grassroots efforts by Aboriginal and white women, working together.In the 1950s and 1960s, in towns across New South Wales, Aboriginal women joined specially created Aboriginal branches of the Country Women's Association. Country women and the colour bar offers insights into the experience of ordinary Aboriginal and white rural women as they participated in beauty contests, cookery, handicraft lessons and baby contests. It reveals how Aboriginal assimilation policy met everyday reality as these rural women broke with the established segregation in an unprecedented fashion. Working together the women made significant gains for Aboriginal communities prior to Aboriginal people's widespread access to citizen's rights. Some prominent Australians feature in these extraordinary stories: Jessie Street, Charles Perkins, Rachel Mundine and Purth Moorhouse. Using a biographical and highly accessible approach, Country women and the colour bar is an exploration of the role of women in maintaining and challenging the colour bar
ER  -