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Passions of the First Wave Feminists

Susan Magarey

$29.95 Paperback
Release Date: 7/1/2002
ISBN: 9780868407807

272 Pages

Canadian rights only.

Distributed for University of Washington Press

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About the Book

Passions of the First Wave Feminists reveals an outstanding generation of radical reformers who not only led the world in achieving votes for women, but imagined a new deal between the sexes that can inspire us still. 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. "And how astonishingly wrong we have all been!" writes Susan Magarey.

Passions of the First Wave Feminists is a radical reappraisal 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.

About the Author(s)

Susan Magarey is the founding editor of Australian Feminist Studies and the founding director of the Research Centre for Women's Studies at the University of Adelaide.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: This is How We Forgot to Remember
- In This Book
- Definitions of Some Terms
- Some Narratives

SECTION 1: A MOVEMENT OF WOMEN
2. The Rising of the Women
- The Indecency of Feminism
- Sources of Feminism
- An Insurrection of Instruction
- The New Woman, the Australian Girl and Her Desires
3. Women in Movement
- Conflict and Cohesion: Rose Scott and the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales
- The Goals of the Woman Movement
- Desires and Visions: Difference and Equality

SECTION 2: THE WOMAN MOVEMENT'S ISSUES
4. Sex
- Hydraulic Male Sexuality and Some Hesitations at the Heart of Masculinity
- Feminists and Sex: The Personal and the Political
- The First Sexual Revolution in Settler-Australia
5. Work
- Alternatives to Marriage: Women Winning Their Own Livelihoods
- Old Men, New Men and a New Nation: Masculinist Reaction
- Re-Constructing Separate Spheres
6. Citizenship
- What We Will Do With the Vote
- Votes for Women
- Women in Parliament?

SECTION 3: THE ENDS OF THE WOMAN MOVEMENT
7. In Conclusion
- Passages
- A Parable
- New Directions
- What Difference Did the Woman Movement Make?

Endnotes
Bibliography
Index

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