Women and Citizenship: Suffrage Centenary: Studies in Western Australian History No. 19 edited by Patricia Crawford and Judy Skene

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

This issue of Studies of Western Australian History focuses on the centenary of granting the vote to white women in Western Australia. The history of the franchise has often been told as a narrative of progress. Still, such a story involves distortions and commissions, particularly for Aboriginal women who did not exercise the vote on the same terms as white women until 1983. (Editorial)

Contents:

• White women, Aboriginal women and the vote in Western Australia by Patricia Grimshaw and Katherine Ellinghaus
• Votes for all women?: racialised silences in Western Australian suffrage historiography by Jasmina Brankovich
• Images of women in Western Australian politics by Michael Booth and Joan Eveline
• A challenge to human rights: Aboriginal women in the West Kimberley by Christine Choo
• Amending the suffrage story: local government in Western Australia, 1876-1999 by Judy Skene
• 'Who would sew his buttons on?': gender roles and rhetoric in the Western Australian Parliament 1893-1899 by Serje Jones
• 'A truly great Australian woman': Jean Beadle's work among Western Australian women and children, 1901-1942 by Bobbie Oliver
• A citizen of Australia and of the world: a reappraisal of Bessie Mabel Rischbieth by Dianne Davidson
• Mother, race and nation in a welfare state by Marilyn Lake
• 'The great bond of motherhood': maternal citizenship and Perth feminists in the 1920s by Clare Ozich
• Aliens to ethnics: the politics of citizenship by Christina Gillgren
• 'You have to make some sort of a commitment': Polish migrant women taking Australian citizenship in Western Australia, 1947-1997 by Margot Clifford
• Religion and public life: Catholic women for this world and the next by Katherine Massam
• 'Take Heart': women's process in the first campaign of the Nuclear Disarmament Party, Western Australia by Sharon Davies
• Women at the Constitutional Convention: small steps - great strides by Clare Thompson
• Women and children as subjects in Western Australian history by Penelope Hetherington