Australian Women's Justice

Settler Colonisation and the Queensland Vote
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-47032-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 374 g

This book explores how women spearheaded the democratic suffrage campaign in colonial Queensland engaging with international debates on women’s activism, leadership, advocacy, print culture, and social movements.

Australian Women's Justice provides a nuanced reading of the diversity and differences of the women’s movement in Queensland, from the time of first white colonisation, federation to World War 1 by new research on key women’s organisations: notably the Women’s Equal Franchise Association and the Women’s Peace Army. Framed through the lives of women suffrage participants, including their encounters with First Nations women, it also looks beyond microhistory to explore broader themes of the intersection of race, gender, property, war, and empire in the colonial context. Campaigns for enfranchisement and property rights and against conscription connect this story with larger international movements for women and labour, and organisations such as the League of Nations.

This book will be of interest to students and researchers of Australian feminism and suffragism, as well as historians of feminist, labour, and peace movements both in Australia and internationally.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jordan, Deborah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Australische und Pazifische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Repulsion of the Sexes and the Women’s Suffrage League, 1889.
2. When the Men are Asked to Leave, 1894
3. The Question of Property
4. Queensland Women’s Suffrage Petitions 1894, 1897
5. Labour’s Leadership of the Campaign for Justice to 1903
6. Women’s Franchise League, the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the Federal Vote.

7. Hatpins and Fairs, feminist print culture, 1905 to 1915
8. Peace Angel and the Mother of Labour
9. Suffragette: Adela Pankhurst in Queensland, 1916
10. Do Not Vote for Slavery: Anti-Conscription Campaigns: 1916, 1917
11. Shattering of Women’s leadership: 1918
12. Battalions of Mercy: Red Cross and the Armistice, 1918.

13. ‘Permanent Peace’: The League of Nations.

Über Autor(innen)

Deborah Jordan, Research Fellow, in History at Monash (adjunct) and Griffith University; Petherick Reader, National Library of Australia; and award-winning professional historian; specialises in research on women at the intersection of history, literature, and environment, addressing issues of gender, race and class. She has recently completed a selection of the love letters of the writers Nettie and Vance Palmer 1909-1914, and she was the lead researcher on climate change narratives for Australian Literature Online database at the University of Queensland.