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Feminist Club of New South Wales (1914 - )

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Function: Lobby group and Women's Rights Organisation
Location: Sydney

The Feminist Club of New South Wales was formed in 1914 to work for ‘equality of status, opportunity and payment between men and women in all spheres.’ They group concerned itself with a broad range of issues, including child welfare, adoption, divorce laws, women's influence in politics and 'Aborigines.'


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In 1929, several members of the Feminist Club left the organisation to form the more radical United Associations of Women with Jessie Street.

 
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Books

  • The Feminist Club of N.S.W.: Silver jubilee souvenir, 1914-1939, B.H. Macdougal, Sydney, [1939], 24 pp. [ Details... ]

Journal Articles

  • Griffith, Gail, 'The Feminist Club Of NSW: 1914-1970: A History of Feminist Politics in Decline', Hecate, vol. 14, no. 1, 1988, pp. 56-67. [ Details... ]

See also

  • Papers of Millicent Preston-Stanley (1883-1955), http://www.nla.gov.au/ms/findaids/9062.html. [ Details... ]
  • Haskins, Victoria, ''Lovable Natives' and 'Tribal Sisters' : Feminism, Maternalism, and the Campaign for Aboriginal Citizenship in New South Wales in the Late 1930s', Hecate, vol. 24, no. 2, 1998, pp. 8-21. [ Details... ]
  • Kyle, Noeline J., 'Cara David: A leading woman in Australian education', Journal of Educational Administration, vol. 31, no. 4, 1993, pp. 80-99. [ Details... ]
  • Lake, Marilyn, Getting Equal: The History of Australian Feminism, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, New South Wales, 1999, 316 pp. [ Details... ]

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