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“marilyn lake”

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  • Faith

    Faith Bandler, gentle activist

    by Marilyn Lake ...
    Faith Bandler is one of Australia's best-loved and most widely respected citizens.This is the story of Faith's extraordinary life, her journey from a childhood nurtured in a South Sea Islander community in northern New South Wales to national recognition as one of Australia's leading human rights activists.Drawing on Faith's own vivid recollections, as well as extensive research in the archives, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Freedom Bound II

    by Marilyn Lake ...
    Over generations, Australian women have envisaged a world of freedom. This new collection of documents - letters, songs, poetry, diary extracts - charts the visions that inspired women and the obstacles that confronted them.Exploring twentieth-century Australia, Freedom Bound II shows how intertwined were women's public and personal lives, and how bound by custom, ties, affections and duties. The ... Read more

    $54.95 CAD

  • Progressive New World

    How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform

    by Marilyn Lake ...
    The paradox of progressivism continues to fascinate more than one hundred years on. Democratic but elitist, emancipatory but coercive, advanced and assimilationist, Progressivism was defined by its contradictions. In a bold new argument, Marilyn Lake points to the significance of turn-of-the-twentieth-century exchanges between American and Australasian reformers who shared racial sensibilities, ... Read more

    $45.09 CAD

  • Getting Equal

    The history of Australian feminism

    by Marilyn Lake ...
    What woman today would accept losing her job or her nationality on marriage? What mother would accept that she had no custody rights to her children? Who would deny women the right to equal pay and economic independence?Women today enjoy freedoms unimagined by their mothers and grandmothers - the result of over 100 years of feminist activism in this country.Getting Equal is the first full-length ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Drawing The Global Colour Line

    White Men's Countries and the Question of Racial Equality

    by Henry Reynolds, Marilyn Lake ...
    At last a history of Australia in its dynamic global context. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in response to the mobilisation and mobility of colonial and coloured peoples around the world, self-styled 'white men's countries' in South Africa, North America and Australasia worked in solidarity to exclude those peoples they defined as not-white--including Africans, Chinese, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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    A bold and provocative book about Australia's national identity and a plea to keep Australia's famed open-mindedness, Cater tracks the seismic changes in Australian culture and outlook since Donald Horne published THE LUCKY COUNTRY in 1964. 'A great book.' Rupert MurdochA bold and provocative book about Australia's national identity and how it is threatened by the rise of a ruling class. Nick ... Read more

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  • Sense and Nonsense in Australian History

    by John Hirst ...
    Sense and Nonsense in Australian History represents a lifetime's original reflection by Australia's most innovative and penetrating historian. Included here are classic essays on the pioneer legend, Australian egalitarianism and colonial culture. There are celebrated critiques of The Tyranny of Distance, multiculturalism and nationalistic history, as well as a substantial essay on Aboriginal ... Read more

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  • A History of New Zealand Women

    by Barbara Brookes ...
    What would a history of New Zealand look like that rejected Thomas Carlyle’s definition of history as ‘the biography of great men’, and focused instead on the experiences of women? One that shifted the angle of vision and examined the stages of this country’s development from the points of view of wives, daughters, mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and aunts? That considered their lives as distinct ... Read more

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  • Black, White and Exempt

    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lives under Exemption

    Edited by Lucinda Aberdeen, Jennifer Jones ...
    In 1957, Ella Simon of Purfleet mission near Taree, New South Wales, applied for and was granted a certificate of exemption. Exemption gave her legal freedoms denied to other Indigenous Australians at that time: she could travel freely, open a bank account, and live and work where she wanted. In the eyes of the law she became a non-Aboriginal, but in return she could not associate with other ... Read more

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  • Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901

    by Tim Rowse ...
    As Australia became a nation in 1901, no one anticipated that 'Aboriginal affairs' would become an on-going national preoccupation. Not 'dying out' as predicted, Aboriginal numbers recovered and – along with Torres Strait Islanders – they became an articulate presence, aggrieved at colonial authority's interventions into family life and continuing dispossession. Indigenous and Other Australians ... Read more

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  • Our State of Mind

    Racial planning and the stolen generations

    by Quentin Beresford, Paul Omaji ...
    Series Book 132 - Untapped
    In 1937, the Australian Government adopted a policy that led to the removal of Aboriginal children from their families. The aim was assimilation. The result, if the policy had continued, would have been the end of the Aboriginal race. The terrible long term impact on the mental, physical and emotional health of those children, now known as the Stolen Generation, is well documented. But how could ... Read more

    $11.80 CAD

  • Double Lives

    A History of Working Motherhood

    by Helen McCarthy ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2021Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2021Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 2021'Fabulous' - The Times'A milestone in women's history' - Observer'Groundbreaking ... a fascinating read' - HeraldIn Britain today, three-quarters of mothers are in employment and paid work is an un... ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD