Research Catalog

Title

Things that liberate : an Australian feminist wunderkammer / edited by Alison Bartlett and Margaret Henderson.

Publication

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Barlett, Alison.
• Henderson, Margaret.

Description

vii, 223 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

This collection of essays explores objects that changed Australian women's lives through their association with women's liberation, the women's movement, and feminism since 1970. The volume combines personal narrative, historical analysis, and memoir, creating a highly readable collection and a novel way of documenting, historic.

Subject

• Feminism > Australia
• Feminist theory > Australia
• Feminism
• Feminist theory
• Australia

Genre/Form

• History
• Essays.

Note

• Alison Bartlett and several contributors are residents of W.A.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Working with feminist things : the Wunderkammer as feminist methodology / Alison Bartlett and Margaret Henderson -- Album: Horses / Margaret Henderson -- Badges / Gail Green -- Blouse / Sara Dowse -- Body hair / Enza Gandolfo -- Boltcutters / Silver Moon -- Books / Kathleen Mary Fallon -- Bras / Alison Bartlett -- Clapperboard / Martha Ansara -- Gestetner / Jean Taylor -- Kombi / Pearlie McNeil -- Newspaper: MeJane / Suzanne Bellamy -- Overalls / Lekkie Hopkins -- Photograph: Germaine Greer / Megan Le Masurier -- Placard / Bronwyn Winter -- Pocket mirror / Adrienne Sallay -- Poem / Ania Walwicz -- Poster / Anna Szorenyi -- Radio / Jane Armstrong -- Sea sponge / Susanne Gannon -- Suffrage tapestries / Kay Lawrence -- Tampon / Susan Magarey -- Tofu / Alexandra Winter -- Toys / Marguerite Johnson and Leni Johnson -- The women's symbol / Deni Fuller.

ISBN

• 1443844136
• 9781443844130

OCLC

• ocn827083184
• 827083184
• SCSB-1694918

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library