Teacher for justice : Lucy Woodcock's transnational life / Heather Goodall, Helen Randerson and Devleena Ghosh.
Publisher: Acton, A.C.T. : Australian National University Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: xvi, 350 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cmContent type:- still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781760463045
- 1760463043
- Woodcock, Lucy, d. 1968
- Woodcock, Lucy, 1889-1968
- Women -- Australia -- Biography -- 20th century
- Women -- Political activity -- Australia -- History -- 20th century
- Social reformers -- Australia -- Biography
- Women social reformers -- Australia -- Biography
- Teachers -- Australia -- Biography
- Women teachers -- Australia -- Biography
- Women -- Australia -- Social conditions
- 305.43371 23
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks | 305.43371 WOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | Signed by Devleena Ghosh and Helen Randerson | 68209 |
Dedication to the library by the authors, Helen Randerson and Devleena Ghosh.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-334) and index.
Learning - Unions and the World: 1910s and 1920s. 1. Introduction: A Transnational Life -- 2. Unions -- Scars: 1930s. 3. Hunger -- 4. Love -- 5. Unity and Betrayal -- 6. Refugees and Hope -- 7. What Sort of Australia? 1938 -- Expanding Visions: 1939–1946. 8. Women and War -- 9. Recognising Race: Decolonisation -- Crossing Borders: 1945–1960s. 10. Red Scare -- 11. Into Asia -- 12. Peace and Prejudice -- 13. Uniting Women -- 14. Bringing the World Back Home -- Legacy. 15. Young in Hope.
'Teacher for Justice is a major contribution to the history of the women's movement, working‑class activism and Australian political internationalism. But it is more than this. By focusing on the life of Lucy Woodcock - an unrecognised and under-researched figure - this book rewrites the history of twentieth-century Australia from the perspective of an activist who challenged conventions to fight for gender, race and class equality, exploring the complex and multi-layered intersections of these aspects. It explores Woodcock's personal relationships and the circles she mixed in and the friendships she forged, as well as the conventions she challenged as a single woman in possibly a same-sex relationship. The book makes a key contribution to the history of progressive education and the experience of women teachers. Above all, it charts the life of a transnational figure who made connections globally and, in particular, with refugees and with women in India and the Asian region. It is a detailed, thoroughly researched and richly textured history which places Woodcock within the context of the times in which she lived.'-- Joy Damousi, Professor of History, University of Melbourne.
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