ISBN |
9781460757352 (pbk.) |
Classification Number |
994.0082 DEV |
Author |
De Vries, Susanna, 1935- |
Title |
Rebel women who changed Australia [BK] |
Physical Description |
portraits ; |
Note |
"This abridged, updated and retitled edition of The Complete book of great Australian women published by HarperCollinsPublishers Pty Ltd in 2019"--Title page verso. |
Contents |
Introduction : the changing role of Australian women -- Medicine and nursing -- Sister Lucy Osburn -- Sister Lillie Goodisson -- Dr Dagmar Berne and Dr Constance Stone -- Sister Elizabeth Kenny -- Law and politics -- Edith Dircksey Cowan -- Joan Mavis Rosanove -- Enid Burnell Lyons -- Ella Simon and Kundaibark -- Roma Flinders Mitchell -- Art, music, literature and sport -- Louisa Lawson and Mary Gilmore -- Nellie Melba -- Stella Miles Franklin and Rose Scott -- Ethel Florence (Henry Handel) Richardson -- Margaret Rose Preston -- Florence Mary Taylor -- Sarah Frances 'Fanny' Durack and Annette Kellerman -- Eileen Joyce -- Kylie Tennant -- Oodgeroo Noonaccul (Kath Walker) -- Nancy de Low Bird Walton -- Philanthropists and humanitarians -- Mary McConnel -- Dr Agnes Bennett and Joice NanKivell Loch -- Dr Catherine Hamlin. |
Visionaries, pioneers, activists and artists - women who made a difference to Australia. An updated and condensed edition of Susanna de Vries' Great Australian Women, this is a celebration of women who broke the mould, crashed through the ceilings, and shaped the nation in the fields of medicine, law, the arts and politics.From Lillie Goodisson, pioneer of family planning, to Eileen Joyce, world-famous pianist, Enid Lyons, our first female cabinet minister, Stella Miles Franklin, who endowed our most celebrated literary prize, and Catherine Hamlin, who has given hope to thousands of women through her fistula hospitals in Africa, these are women who have made a difference. They are the women who helped to forge the Australia we know today. |
Subject |
Women -- Australia -- Biography |
Women -- Australia -- History |
Women -- Australia -- Social conditions |
Feminism -- Australia -- Biography |
Feminism -- Australia -- History |
Australia -- Biography |
Additional |
The complete book of great Australian women. |