Agitate, Educate, Organise, Legislate
Protestant Women's Social Action in Post-Suffrage Australia
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- Paperback
277 pages
- Release Date
17 July 2017
Summary
After successfully agitating for the vote for women from the 1890s, Protestant women’s organisations in Australia began to educate women at a grassroots level on effective ways of applying political pressure on a wide range of topics and social concerns.
Positioning their organisations as non-party-political and separate from more overtly feminist groups, the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU); the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) and the Mothers’ Union attracted wome…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522869903 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522869904 |
| Author: | Ellen Warne |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 277 |
| Release Date: | 17 July 2017 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 210mm x 135mm |
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About The Author
Ellen Warne
Dr. Ellen Warne is a senior lecturer in History at the Australian Catholic University. She has published on transnational women’s organisations and their non-party political engagement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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