DescriptionThe centenary of White women's franchise is an opportunity to take account of the exclusions that mark the history of female suffrage in Western Australia and to review women's citizenship in the twentieth century. (p. ix) White women, Aborigianl women and the vote in Western Australia -- Patricia Grimshaw & Katherine Ellinhaus / Votes for all women: racialised silences in Western Australian suffrage historiography -- Jasmina Brankovich / Images of women in Western Australian politics: the suffragist, Edith Cowan and Carment Lawrence -- Joan Eveline & Michael Booth / A challenge to human rights: Aboriginal women in the West Kimberley -- Christine Choo / Amending the suffrage story: local government in Western Australia, 1876–1999 -- Judy Skene / 'Who would sew his buttons on?': gender roles and rhetoric in the Western Australian Parliament, 1893–1899 -- Serje Jones / 'A truly great Australian woman': Jean Beadle's work among Western Australian women and children, 1901–1942 -- Bobbie Oliver / A citizen of Australia and of the world: a reappraisal of Bessie Mabel Rischbieth: Dianne Davidson / Mother, race and nation in a welfare state -- Marilyn Lake / 'The great bond of motherhood': maternal citizenship and Perth feminists in the 1920s -- Clare Ozich / Aliens to ethnics: the politics of citizenship -- Christina Gillgren / 'You have to make some sort of commitment': Polish migrant women taking Australian citizenship in Western Australia, 1947–1997 -- Margaret Clifford / Religion and public life: Catholic women for this world and the next -- Katharine Massam / 'Take heart': Women's process in the first campaign of the Nuclear Disarmament Party, Western Australia -- Sharon Davies / Taking action against domestic violence in teh 1970s: Nardine Women's Refuge and radical feminism -- Suellen Murray / Women at the constitutional convention: small steps - great strides -- Clare Thompson / Women & children as subjects in Western Australian history -- Penelope Hetherington.ImprintNedlands, W.A. : Centre for Western Australian History, Department of History, University of Western Australia, 1999Collationx, 266 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.Series TitleStudies in Western Australian History ; 19LanguageEnglishDate Published1999ISBN978-0-86422-923-6 (invalid)Dewey Class994.1 WESPublication FormatBook
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