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Abstracts: Papers to be Presented at the WHN Conference 2016

Dr Robin Joyce / May 21, 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…

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Blog, Politics, Women's History

The New Zealand Experience – Renaming, Rebuilding, and Social Development

Dr Robin Joyce / May 15, 2016

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…

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Blog, Women's History

The New Zealand Experience – Renaming, Rebuilding and Social Development

Dr Robin Joyce / May 8, 2016

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,…

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‘Temptress’ Eve, ‘prostitute’ Mary Magdalene – and the awkward truth about The Bible’s women

Dr Robin Joyce / May 1, 2016

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…

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Endless Endeavours: from the 1866 Women’ Suffrage Petition to the Fawcett Society

Dr Robin Joyce / April 23, 2016

  Gillian Murphy LSE Library Exhibition Endless Endeavours: from the 1866 Women’s Suffrage Petition to the Fawcett Society. 23 April – 27 August 2016 Open to all LSE Library’s summer exhibition Endless Endeavours: from the 1866 Women’s Suffrage Petition to…

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Labor Women: Political Housekeepers or Politicians?

Dr Robin Joyce / April 10, 2016

  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…

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Labor Women: Political Housekeepers or Politicians?

Dr Robin Joyce / April 3, 2016

Robin Joyce Part 1   Myths which limit women’s role and the perception of that role are abundant. The political arena is no exception and the negative images significantly undermine women’s perception of their heritage as legitimate actors in the…

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JANE AUSTEN: WAS SHE A TROUBLESOME WRITER?

Dr Robin Joyce / March 29, 2016

  Robin Joyce   Part 2 Austen was apparently trapped by conventional ideology. At the same time, she attempted to advance progressive ideas about women’s situation without appearing to recommend Wollstonecraft’s sexual irregularities and her suicide attempts. To write novels…

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JANE AUSTEN: WAS SHE A TROUBLESOME WRITER?

Dr Robin Joyce / March 28, 2016

Robin Joyce Part 1   Jane Austen, was indeed, a troublesome writer. Troublesome for whom? Although the historical context in which she wrote has some relevance, Austen is often troublesome in a way that reflects feminist writing since the 1970s.…

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