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Respectable radicals : a history of the National Council of Women Australia, 1896-2006 / Marian Quartly and Judith Smart.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Australian historyPublisher: Clayton, Victoria Monash University Publishing in conjunction with the National Council of Women of Australia, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: xiv, 497 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781922235947 :
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.420994 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ1822 .Q83 2015
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Creating Common Cause 1896--1931 -- 1.Towards National Organisation -- 2.Home and Family Enter the Body Politic -- 3.A Growing Commitment to Rights and Equality -- 4.Developing International Identity -- pt. TWO NCWA Takes Shape 1931--1950 -- 5.Organisational Challenges and Achievements -- 6.Home and Society -- 7.Rights, Equality and International Affairs -- pt. THREE The Golden Years 1950--1970 -- 8.Organisational Developments -- 9.Women, Home and Family -- 10.Women in the Workforce -- 11.Australia and the World -- pt. FOUR Remaking the National Councils 1970--2006 -- 12.The Years of Rapid Change 1970--1975 -- 13.A Decade for Women? 1976--1985 -- 14.The New Face of the National Council 1986--2006.
Summary: For much of the twentieth century, the National Council of Women of Australia was the peak body representing women to government in Australia and, through the International Council of Women, to the world. This history of the NCWA tells the story of mainstream feminism in Australia, of the long struggle for equality at home and at work, which is still far from achieved. These days, when women can no longer be imagined as speaking with one voice and women as a group have no ready access to government, something of the optimistic vision of the leaders of the NCWA is still needed. Respecatable in hat and gloves to the 1970s and beyond, the women of the NCMW politely persisted with the truly radical idea that women around the world should be equal to man. --Back cover.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 305.420994 QUA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 67533

Formerly CIP. Uk

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Creating Common Cause 1896--1931 -- 1.Towards National Organisation -- 2.Home and Family Enter the Body Politic -- 3.A Growing Commitment to Rights and Equality -- 4.Developing International Identity -- pt. TWO NCWA Takes Shape 1931--1950 -- 5.Organisational Challenges and Achievements -- 6.Home and Society -- 7.Rights, Equality and International Affairs -- pt. THREE The Golden Years 1950--1970 -- 8.Organisational Developments -- 9.Women, Home and Family -- 10.Women in the Workforce -- 11.Australia and the World -- pt. FOUR Remaking the National Councils 1970--2006 -- 12.The Years of Rapid Change 1970--1975 -- 13.A Decade for Women? 1976--1985 -- 14.The New Face of the National Council 1986--2006.

For much of the twentieth century, the National Council of Women of Australia was the peak body representing women to government in Australia and, through the International Council of Women, to the world. This history of the NCWA tells the story of mainstream feminism in Australia, of the long struggle for equality at home and at work, which is still far from achieved. These days, when women can no longer be imagined as speaking with one voice and women as a group have no ready access to government, something of the optimistic vision of the leaders of the NCWA is still needed. Respecatable in hat and gloves to the 1970s and beyond, the women of the NCMW politely persisted with the truly radical idea that women around the world should be equal to man. --Back cover.

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