Passions of the first wave feminists
By: Susan Magarey.
Publisher: UNSW Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Feminism -- Australia -- History; Sex -- Australia -- History; Women -- Suffrage -- Australia -- History
Description: "First Wave Feminists have been called 'wowsers', 'moralistic', 'spoilers of men's pleasures'. These women of the late nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth have been dismissed as fearsomely respectable, crushingly earnest, socially puritanical, politically limited and sexually repressed." "Passions of the First Wave Feminists is a radical re-appraisal of the God's Police history of Australian feminism. It offers a new view of suffrage-era feminism in Australia, and therefore a new view also of politics, nationalism and culture in the 1890s. It shows First Wave Feminists as passionate, challenging convention on every side, visionary, and centrally preoccupied with sex."--Jacket.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [225]-239.
Includes index.