WHN Admin. Part 2 of Setting the World on Fire provides a brief insight into Catherine’s spiritual initiation, unfortunately the material which puts this into the context of the spiritual history of the time and the Catholic church has had to…
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Catherine was the original breaker of the glass ceiling
WHN Administration The title and following quotes and excerpts from Chapter 2 (to be published as Part 2) are from Setting the World on Fire The brief astonishing life of Catherine of Siena by Shelley Embling. Part 1…
Abstracts: Papers to be Presented at the WHN Conference 2016
WHN Admin. The following presenters have been generous in providing the abstracts of the papers that they will present at the conference: Dr Pam Jarvis, Bernadette Cahill and Teresa Barnard. These abstracts appear below. Additional presenters are being approached…
The New Zealand Experience – Renaming, Rebuilding, and Social Development
WHN Admin. This paper is the edited version of The New Zealand Experience – Renaming, Rebuilding, and Social Development presented by Margaret Wilson at the National Labor Women’s Conference April 2002 in Canberra. This version omits the end of the…
The New Zealand Experience – Renaming, Rebuilding and Social Development
Part 1 WHN Administrator In Australia, thoughtful speakers acknowledge the indigenous owners of the land. New Zealand’s then Attorney General, Margaret Wilson, acknowledged the tengata whenau of Nunagwal Land in her speech in Canberra at the National Labor [1]Women’s Conference,…
‘Temptress’ Eve, ‘prostitute’ Mary Magdalene – and the awkward truth about The Bible’s women
Katie Edwards Eve (and Adam) pay the price . Shutterstock. The most well-known female biblical characters feel familiar to us because they’re so embedded within our culture. These women are represented in film, music videos, couture collections and featured in…
Labor Women: Political Housekeepers or Politicians?
Robin Joyce Part 2 Leaders’ roles and activities are usually, although not always, easy to follow. Jean Beadle, as described in Part 1, was one woman whose career in the labour movement was well known. However, other women involved…
Women’s History Month on the Women’s History Network Blog
A short overview of the posts made during Women’s History Month on the Women’s History Network Blog Part 2 WHN Admin. Women as political activists are featured in several posts, from the earliest, the story of women’s suffrage…
Women’s History Month on the Women’s History Network Blog
A Short overview of the posts made during Women’s History Month on the Women’s History Network Blog Part 1 Women’s History Month on the WHN blog has been celebrated with a variety of posts. Some of them demonstrate links…