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Changing Rights and Freedoms. Women. Waves of Feminism. 1900 Catherine Spence. Rose Cott, Bessie Lee Harrison C21st DIY Feminists Identified through interests and passions before their gender (Bail, 1988). Australia has become a nation of femocrats. Sarah Elizabeth Jackson.
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Waves of Feminism • 1900 Catherine Spence. Rose Cott, Bessie Lee Harrison • C21st DIY Feminists • Identified through interests and passions before their gender (Bail, 1988). • Australia has become a nation of femocrats.
Sarah Elizabeth Jackson • She wrote in 1923 that ‘a short life and a contentious one is better than prolonged placidity’.
WWI • Volunteering • Conscription debates
Flappers • These were the flappers: women who went swimming, raised the hemlines above the knee and wore short scanties rather than bloomers.
Mary Miller • Depression • WWII • Lobbying for OHS (safety shoes, better wages an machine specs).
Migrant women • Koula Aslanidis • 1950s immigration from Greece • Double disadvantage
Indigenous Women • Bronwyn Bancroft struggled with being labelled ‘dumb”. • Well respected painter.
Summary • DIY Feminists or stangely inarticulate women (Summers, 1995).