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Respectable Radicals
A History of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1896–2006
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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 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. In 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, we still need something of the optimistic vision of the leaders of NCWA. Respectable in hat and gloves, the women of NCWA politely persisted with the truly radical idea that women around the world should be equal with men.
Marian Quartly holds the position of Professor Emerita at the Monash School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies. Her long-term research concern is the history of family in late twentieth century Australia. She has recently completed two large co-operative projects: a history of Australian adoption, and a history of the National Council of Women of Australia., Judith Smart is Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Adjunct Professor at RMIT University. She has published on Australian women’s organisations in the first half of the twentieth century, as well as on women and political protest, women and religion, and the social history of the home front during World War I. She is co-editor, with Shurlee Swain, of The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, a reference tool available online at http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/index.htm, and has co-authored, with Marian Quartly and Jan Hipgrave, Stirrers with Style: Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its Predecessors, available online at https://web.esrc.unimelb.edu.au/AWAPt/exhib/ncwa/index.html.
- ISBN-13
- 9781922235947
- Publisher
- Monash University Publishing
- Imprint
- Monash University Publishing
- Publication date
- 1 November 2015
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 512
- Dimensions
- 234 x 153 mm
- Language
- English
