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Biography, Blog, Politics, Women's History

Unfinished Business and More Unfinished Business

Dr Robin Joyce / March 22, 2016

Sue Neacy WHN Admin. Introduction to Sue Neacy: Unfinished Business and More Unfinished Business As a percentage of the population people at tertiary institutions in 2012 58% of the domestic students (as opposed to the large numbers of overseas students…

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Blog, Politics, Women's History

Women’s Suffrage in Australia

Dr Robin Joyce / March 19, 2016

  WHN Admin.   In 1908 the Woman Suffrage Alliance published Woman Suffrage in Australia by Vida Goldstein.  The document was found in the Baillieu Library by Karen Buczynski Lee who recognised that it could easily be the only copy…

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Blog, Politics, Women's History

Western Australian Labor Woman, Jean Beadle promotes her options for dealing with venereal disease 1915

Dr Robin Joyce / March 11, 2016

A Letter to the Editor of the Kalgoorlie Miner 1915[1] Jean Beadle [2]   ‘Notwithstanding the fact that the First Labor Women’s Conference, held in 1912, carried a resolution favouring notification and segregation of persons suffering from venereal disease, I…

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Blog, Politics, Women's History

This is where it all could have begun – but did it? Women and The Magna Carta A Treaty for Control or Freedom?

Dr Robin Joyce / March 9, 2016

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…

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Blog, General

This is where it could have begun – but did it? Women and The Magna Carta A Treaty For Control or Freedom

Dr Robin Joyce / March 8, 2016

    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…

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Ethical Fiction: Essential? Desirable? Irrelevant?

Dr Robin Joyce / March 6, 2016

‘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…

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Blog, Politics

Are Women a Success in Parliament?

Dr Robin Joyce / March 5, 2016

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…

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Biography, Blog, Politics, Women's History

The Case of the Chocolate Cream Killer: The Poisonous Passion of Christiana Edmunds

Dr Robin Joyce / February 21, 2016

Kaye Jones    The Victorians were terrified of women poisoners. It might seem like an obvious observation; after all, who wouldn’t be frightened of a poison-wielding woman? But there’s more to this relationship than self-preservation. In fact, the fear of…

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Women, Peace and Equality: New LSE Library Exhibition

Dr Robin Joyce / February 1, 2016

Gillian Murphy Women, Peace and Equality – new LSE Library exhibition 9 January to 9 April 2016 Open to all The Library’s spring exhibition draws on its iconic collections to explore the theme of women, war and peace to coincide…

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