The Half-Open Door: Sixteen Modern Australian Women Look at Professional Life and Achievement edited by Patricia Grimshaw and Lynne Strahan

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page.

Women in art, law, literature, music, teaching and medicine candidly discuss themselves, their families and their careers. They look at their lives and the pressures exerted by religion, education, sexuality and domestic life. They talk of the men who have helped or hindered them.

Women included: Barbara Falk, Therese Radic, Nina Christensen, Mary Macqueen, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Joyce Nicholson, Dame Kate Campbell, Helen Gifford, Alison Patrick, Beatrice Faust, Norma Grieve, Deidre FitzGerald, Mary Turner Shaw, Diana Dyason and Judith Lumley.