Agitate, educate, organize, legislate : Protestant women's social action in post-suffrage Australia / Ellen Warne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warne, Ellen, author.

Series:

History series (Melbourne University Press)

History series (MUP academic)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protestant women--Australia--History.

Protestant women.

Social action--Australia--History.

Social action.

Women--Australia--Social conditions--19th century.

Women.

Women--Australia--Social conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 274 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Vic.: MUP Academic Digital, 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. These organisations sought to agitate on a wide range of issues related to girls and women, connecting with public anxieties and highlighting particular vulnerabilities of girls and young women who lived alone in the city and had the potential to be exploited in the workforce. By the 1920s and 1930s these women's groups noted with concern the easier access to divorce and birth control in the Soviet Union and the growing influence of both Communism and 'Hitlerism' in galvanising young people. Agitate, Educate, Organise, Legislate explores the colourful debates and anxieties that were prevalent from the 1890s to the 1930s and the responses of the key women's organisations whose leadership and campaigns acknowledged that--outside of parliament and party politics--women's connection to political matters could be both innovative and socially influential.

ISBN:

9780522869910

0522869912

OCLC:

1493618957