You Daughters Of Freedom. The Australians Who Won The Vote And Inspired The World

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Text Publishing
Publisher Place: Melbourne
Publisher Year: 2018
Edition: First Edition

Description: 553 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Part two in the Democracy Trilogy by the internationally-renowned and Stella Prize-winning author of The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, Clare Wright You Daughters of Freedom follows from The Forgotten Rebels to form Part 2 of Clare Wrights Democracy Trilogy: a project to redefine Australian democracy as socially (if not racially) progressive. In Clares words: the case is often made that we owe our existence as a free nation to militarism. Here is an evidence-based argument that we dont. In the ten years following Federation, Australia led the world. Its social policies were enlightened, its labour movement was ascendant and its women were entitled not just to vote but to run for election. This book follows five of the Australian daughters of freedom who returned to the mother country to offer their leadership, experience and example. It was this period, culminating in 1911, that Wright argues constitutes Australias real journey to nationhood. This is another groundbreaking work of storytelling and scholarship from Clare Wright that forms part of her ongoing project to write women back into Australian history, and radically transform our national myths about late 19th and early 20th century Australia. Clare Wright is an Australian icona revered scholar of history, as well as an author and broadcaster. Audiences know and adore her from appearances on ABC and SBS television, including her Radio National program Shooting the Past, and regular public appearances across Australia and New Zealand. This will be a beautiful hardback edition with full colour plates, and subject to a major publicity and marketing campaign from Text

ISBN: 9781925603934