Women on the Warpath: Feminists of the First Wave by Dianne Davidson

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to corners and edge, with dampstain to right tail edge of front cover and first twenty pages. No pages are stuck together and the rest of the body text is in very good condition.

In 1909, the Women's Service Guilds were formed in Western Australia. They were a group of irrepressible and politically diverse women with a common goal of gender equality. The Guilds were prominent among the many Australian first-wave feminist groups.

This book provides a detailed account of the Guilds' activities in Western Australia and on the national and international scene; the intense power struggles, both within the Guilds and between the Guilds and other feminist groups; and the successes and failures of the women who made up the membership. It also chronicles the decline of the Guilds and the rise of the more aggressive second wave of feminism in the 1970s.