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Title: |
Eilean Giblin |
| Sub-title: |
A Feminist between the Wars |
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| By (author): |
Patricia Clarke |
| ISBN10-13: |
1921867841 : 9781921867842 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
234x153mm |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Weight: |
.000 Kg. |
| Published: |
Monash University Publishing - July 2013 |
| List Price: |
23.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Reprint under Consideration
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| Subjects: |
Australasian & Pacific history |
| Eilean Giblin arrived in Australia from England in 1919 with a shipload of war brides, almost certainly the only woman not wearing a wedding ring; she believed both husband and wife should have rings or neither. She brought with her a commitment to womenâ s rights and social justice developed through the suffrage movement and left-wing social and political circles. During the next three decades, in three Australian cities, she worked to advance her feminist and humanitarian ideals. In Hobart in the 1920s she campaigned for â equal citizenshipâ ; she was the first woman appointed to a Tasmanian hospital board; and she represented Tasmania at the 1923 International Woman Suffrage Congress in Rome. In Melbourne in the 1930s she led a committee that achieved the long sought goal of a non-denominational university womenâ s college. And in Canberra during World War II she was one of a small minority of Australians who championed the cause of the enemy aliens, many of them Jewish, deported from Britain on the ship Dunera, and she set off on a lone 500 kilometre journey to investigate their internment camp conditions. Patricia Clarke draws on original records and evidence, such as Giblinâ s diary kept during World War II â a unique social record and a powerful witness to the immense suffering and futility of war â to portray the courageous public and private life of this unconventional feminist. |
| Reviews: |
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Eilean Giblin ... was a pioneer who opened a door of possibility for women. -- Dale Spender
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