Woman Street, Jessie Mary Grey
- Occupation
- Feminist and Internationalist
Written by Caitlin Stone, The University of Melbourne
Jessie Mary Grey Street was born in India in 1889. She became active in many feminist and Indigenous causes particularly equal pay for women. She died in 1970.
Published Resources
Journal Articles
- Kirkby, Diane, '"Those Knights of the Pen and Pencil": Women Journalists and Cultural Leadership of the Women's Movement in Australia and the United States', Labour History, vol. 104, May 2013, pp. 81-100. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5263/labourhistory.104.0081. Details
Lectures
- Evatt, Elizabeth, Jessie Street and Human Rights, Commemorating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Lecture given at the annual Jessie Street Trust Lunch, Evatt Foundation, New South Wales, 18 April 2008. http://evatt.org.au/papers/jessie-street-human-rights.html. Details
Online Resources
- 'Street, Jessie Mary Grey', The Australian Women's Register, National Foundation for Australian Women, http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0013b.htm. Details
- Coltheart, Lenore, '"Red Jessie": Jessie Street', in Uncommon Lives, National Archives of Australia, 2004, http://uncommonlives.naa.gov.au/jessie-street/. Details
- Radi, Heather, 'Street, Jessie Mary Grey (1889-1970)', in Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University (ANU), c.2006, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/street-jessie-mary-grey-11789. Details