Woman Suffrage in Australia

ISBN-13: 9780521436113 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 294 str.

Audrey Oldfield

Opis

Woman Suffrage in Australia tells the story of the struggle fro female enfranchisement from the first stirrings of the movement in 1880, as it gained momentum and South Australian women were given the vote in 1894, to the success of the suffragists' campaigns when the vote was granted in 1902 Commonwealth.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. South Australia; 3. Western Australia; 4. The Federal Movement; 5. New South Wales; 6. Tasmania; 7. Queensland; 8. Victoria; 9. The politicians and the women; 10. The arguments and the issues; 11. 'The knife without the blade': the gift theory and the legacy; 12. The Australian suffragists, and suffragettes overseas; Bibliography.