Australian Women's Justice

This book explores how women spearheaded the democratic suffrage campaign in colonial Queensland.

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Deborah Jordan, Research Fellow, in History at Monash (adjunct) and Griffith University; Petherick Reader, National Library of Australia; and award-winning professional historian; specialises in research on women at the intersection of history, literature, and environment, addressing issues of gender, race and class. She has recently completed a selection of the love letters of the writers Nettie and Vance Palmer 1909-1914, and she was the lead researcher on climate change narratives for Australian Literature Online database at the University of Queensland.

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Introduction

1. Repulsion of the Sexes and the Women's Suffrage League, 1889.
2. When the Men are Asked to Leave, 1894
3. The Question of Property
4. Queensland Women's Suffrage Petitions 1894, 1897
5. Labour's Leadership of the Campaign for Justice to 1903
6. Women's Franchise League, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Federal Vote.
7. Hatpins and Fairs, feminist print culture, 1905 to 1915
8. Peace Angel and the Mother of Labour
9. Suffragette: Adela Pankhurst in Queensland, 1916
10. Do Not Vote for Slavery: Anti-Conscription Campaigns: 1916, 1917
11. Shattering of Women's leadership: 1918
12. Battalions of Mercy: Red Cross and the Armistice, 1918.
13. 'Permanent Peace': The League of Nations.