Showing 5 items matching "women's liberation movement"
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Australian Queer ArchivesEphemera, Strategy Against Right-Wing Attacks (S.A.R.A) [kit], 1980
... Women's Liberation Movement...The kit was meant to be added to through a national network of SARA contacts in each state. Women's Liberation Movement Lesbian feminism Darwin Strategy Against Right-Wing Attacks (S.A.R.A) [kit] Ephemera ...The Strategy Against Right-Wing Attacks (S.A.R.A) kit was produced by wimmin from around Australia following the 1980 National Wimmin's Conference, Darwin, NT. It includes a fantastic set of papers from a forum on the state of feminism in Australia discussing right-wing attacks on women's organisations, and highlights success stories for attacking back. The kit was meant to be added to through a national network of SARA contacts in each state.women's liberation movement, lesbian feminism, darwin -
Australian Queer ArchivesPoster, Cathie Knox, International Women's Day 1995, 1995
... Australian Queer Archives 79-81 Fitzroy Street St Kilda melbourne The use of the colours purple, green and white reference the colours used during the first wave feminist movement initially in the UK by the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), and subsequently emblematic of the Australian women’s movement. Women's liberation ...The use of the colours purple, green and white reference the colours used during the first wave feminist movement initially in the UK by the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), and subsequently emblematic of the Australian women’s movement.Graphic illustration of a naked female seated figure in purple, white and red, against a background with 'rays' of purple, green and white. Main text in red, with additional text at base in purple.Additional text: "A woman's place is… …in the struggle : 24th consecutive rally and march : 6:30pm steps of Parliament House : Dance afterwards 8:30pm Brunswick Town Hall (cnr. Sydney Rd. + Dawson St.)."women's liberation -
Monbulk RSL Sub BranchBook, Tarka Publishing, You'll be sorry! : how World War II changed women's lives, 1994
... Ann Howard honours grandmothers and mothers in a superb account of women’s participation in the Services during World War II, and their ensuing battle for equal opportunity that set the foundation for the Women’s Liberation Movement of the 70s.You’ll Be Sorry! ...In You’ll Be Sorry! Ann Howard honours grandmothers and mothers in a superb account of women’s participation in the Services during World War II, and their ensuing battle for equal opportunity that set the foundation for the Women’s Liberation Movement of the 70s.You’ll Be Sorry! is an absorbing account of the experiences of women serving in the Australian Women’s Army Service, and other Services.Ann Howard captures the resistance and prejudice 66,000 women experienced as they left home to join the Services in WWll.Index, ill, p.191.non-fictionIn You’ll Be Sorry! Ann Howard honours grandmothers and mothers in a superb account of women’s participation in the Services during World War II, and their ensuing battle for equal opportunity that set the foundation for the Women’s Liberation Movement of the 70s.You’ll Be Sorry! is an absorbing account of the experiences of women serving in the Australian Women’s Army Service, and other Services.Ann Howard captures the resistance and prejudice 66,000 women experienced as they left home to join the Services in WWll.women - australia - social conditions, australian womens army service -
Women's Art RegisterBook - Anthology, Jenny Barber, Women's Movement South Australia, N/A
... Women's Art Register Richmond Library, 415 Church Street Richmond melbourne Ranges from The Christian Women's Temperance Union established in the 1886 to The Working Women's Centre in 1979 Documentation, history and source material. suffrage voting rights violence communism activism pascifism Overview of funded and non-funded organisations focused on women's rights, and the diversity of the South Australian Women's Liberation Movement through interviews and social history. ...Overview of funded and non-funded organisations focused on women's rights, and the diversity of the South Australian Women's Liberation Movement through interviews and social history. Essays written by artists, writers and women working in women's services.Black and white text on cover and throughout non-fictionOverview of funded and non-funded organisations focused on women's rights, and the diversity of the South Australian Women's Liberation Movement through interviews and social history. Essays written by artists, writers and women working in women's services.suffrage, voting rights, violence, communism, activism, pascifism -
Women's Art RegisterBook, Whitney Chadwick, Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, 1991
... Women's Art Register Richmond Library, 415 Church Street Richmond melbourne Focussing on International artists this richly illustrated overview documents how these artists embodied their age as they struggled for artistic maturity and their own 'liberation of the spirit' against the background of the turbulent 20s, 30s and 40s, and the war which forced Surrealism into exile in New York and Mexico.The book counters the idea that women were muses rather than participants in exhibitions and events, and outlines the prejudice they faced being taking seriously at the time, and by critics and researchers since. Contributes to a wider understanding of the role women artists played in development and significance of this art movement ...Explores the lives, ideas and artworks of women in the Surrealist Movement including Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington, alongside their more well-known male counterparts.Booknon-fictionExplores the lives, ideas and artworks of women in the Surrealist Movement including Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington, alongside their more well-known male counterparts.painting, drawing, collage, photography, surrealism
