Yes, women are now the captain of ships as big as towns. Progress – but oh so patchy, since the days when you had to camouflage yourself as a boy in order to gain the searoving life. Link to the…
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This is where it all could have begun – but did it? Women and The Magna Carta A Treaty for Control or Freedom?
Jocelynne Scutt Part 2 Chapter 1 … Are Women Persons? … We have … granted to all freemen of our kingdom, for us and our heirs forever, all the underwritten liberties, to be had and held by them and their…
This is where it could have begun – but did it? Women and The Magna Carta A Treaty For Control or Freedom
Jocelynne A. Scutt Excerpts from the Introduction and Chapter 1 Women and The Magna Carta : A Treaty for Control or Freedom Part 1 Magna Carta Initiated Magna Carta is generally seen as a statement…
Ethical Fiction: Essential? Desirable?
Robin Joyce Part 2 Is ethical fiction ever irrelevant? While an initial response could be ‘Of course fiction should be ethical. Writers should not encourage racism, sexism or classism. They should not give credibility to unethical behavior.’ However, what…
Ethical Fiction: Essential? Desirable? Irrelevant?
‘We often need literature to make our feelings intelligible to us.’ Joanna Trollope, The Rector’s Wife Robin Joyce Part 1 The strong response to a readers’ blog asking for examples of ethical fiction, (1) a list of topics under…
Are Women a Success in Parliament?
WHN Admin. Published in 1938 in the Westralian Worker May Holman’s commentary on women Members of Parliament makes interesting reading. May Holman was the first Labor woman to be elected to the Western Australian Parliament. She was a Member…
Commemoration of women in foreign missions during the Great War
Zvezdana Popovic An event to commemorate the lives of the brave women in foreign medical missions in Serbia during the Great War is being held. Details appear below. However, it is worth briefly explaining the back ground to…
Blue Plaques: But How Many for Women?
Well deserved, but badly neglected. Women’s absence from the Blue Plaques that adorn buildings and, at times, road or pathways, is again being questioned. Some women, such as Julie Harper, are choosing their own method of giving women of note…
Lending a Hand in the Strike
Daphne Gollan Forty or so years ago[1] people from Sydney would regard a posting to our national capital as akin to a death sentence. Once there it was difficult to know where you were as you picked your way…