Table of Contents

Introduction

Part One Women in a New World

1 The Power of the Ballot

Part Two Building a Woman-Friendly Commonwealth

2 The Creation of a Welfare State

3 The Rights of Mothers

4 The Independence of Women

5 Campaigning for Aboriginal Citizenship

Part Three Feminist Modes of Doing Politics

6 The Non-Party Ideal

Part Four Equality With Men

7 The Right to Work

8 No Discrimination on the Grounds of Sex or Race

9 An End to Woman's Role

10 Liberation on our own terms

11 The Institutionalisation of Feminism

Conclusion

About the Author

Marilyn Lake, now Professor of History at La Trobe University, joined the Women's Liberation movement in Hobart in 1972 and first lectured in women's history at Monash University in 1979. Co-author of the prize-winning Creating a Nation, she is recognised as the leading expert on the history of feminism in Australia.