Eilean Giblin : a feminist between the wars / Patricia Clarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, Patricia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Giblin, Eilean Mary.

Women social reformers--Australia--Biography.

Women social reformers.

Feminists--Australia--Biography.

Feminists.

Human rights workers.

Women's rights.

History.

Suffragists.

Australia.

Suffragists--Australia--Biography.

Women's rights--Australia--History.

Human rights workers--Australia--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 214 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, 2013.

Summary:

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 women'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 'equal citizenship'; 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 women'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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Radical waves in a sea of conformity: London 1884-1912 1

2 Searching for the unknown: Australia 1913-1916 19

3 Love in wartime: England 1917-1919 36

4 'A woman's place is in the world': Hobart 1920s 55

5 A Room of One's Own: Melbourne 1930s 79

6 War and the Dunera 'enemy aliens': Canberra, Hay, Hobart 1940 103

7 A studio pottery in a time of war: Canberra 1940s 126

8 The country under threat: Australia 1942 145

9 War and peace: Canberra, Hobart 1943-1951 166

10 'My roots are in England': Australia, England 1951-1955 185.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1921867841

9781921867842

OCLC:

828488897

Publisher Number:

99954900329