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History, cultural studies, and another look at first‐wave feminism in Australia∗

1996; Routledge; Volume: 27; Issue: 106 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/10314619608596001

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Susan Magarey,

Scottish History and National Identity

Abstract Another look at first‐wave feminism, one that considers cultural productions as well as the materials usually accepted by historians as 'sources', offers a new, revisionist, account of the 'Woman Movement', focused less on motherhood and/or work than on (hetero)sex. This account also suggests that Australian feminism was not only born modern but was a force for modernism, at least two decades sooner than anywhere else. Notes ∗ I would like to acknowledge the inspiration of Farley Kelly, The Woman Question' in Melbourne 1880–1914, PhD thesis, Monash University, 1982, and to thank Joy Damousi and Katie Holmes for particular insights, Ann Curthoys for encouragement just when it was needed, and Susan Sheridan for quality control.