• Entry type: Organisation
  • Entry ID: AWE0090

Feminist Club of New South Wales

(From 1914 – )
  • Occupation Lobby group, Women's Rights Organisation

Summary

The Feminist Club of New South Wales was formed in 1914 to work for ‘equality of status, opportunity and payment between men and women in all spheres.’ They group concerned itself with a broad range of issues, including child welfare, adoption, divorce laws, women’s influence in politics and ‘Aborigines.’

Details

In 1929, several members of the Feminist Club left the organisation to form the more radical United Associations of Women with Jessie Street.

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Archival resources

  • Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection
    • Feminist Club of New South Wales records, 1928-1973
  • National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
    • Papers of Ruby Rich, 1943-1948 [manuscript]
    • Papers of M. Preston-Stanley, 1925-1950 [manuscript]
  • National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
    • Jack and Jean Horner interviewed by Peter Read in the Peter Read collection of interviews conducted for his book entitled, Charles Perkins : a biography [sound recording]
    • Ruby Rich interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]

Published resources

  • Book
    • Getting Equal: the History of Australian Feminism, Lake, Marilyn, 1999
    • The Feminist Club of N.S.W.: Silver jubilee souvenir, 1914-1939, [1939]
  • Journal Article
    • The Feminist Club Of NSW: 1914-1970: A History of Feminist Politics in Decline, Griffith, Gail, 1988
    • Cara David: A leading woman in Australian education, Kyle, Noeline J., 1993
    • Lovable Natives' and 'Tribal Sisters' : Feminism, Maternalism, and the Campaign for Aboriginal Citizenship in New South Wales in the Late 1930s, Haskins, Victoria, 1998
  • Resource

Related entries


  • Membership
    • Street, Jessie Mary Grey (1889 - 1970)
  • Related Women
    • Griffiths, Jennie Scott (1875 - 1951)
    • Scobie, Grace Locke (1876 - 1957)
    • Dale, Marguerite Ludovia (1883 - 1963)
  • Member
    • Rich, Ruby (1888 - 1988)
  • President
    • Preston-Stanley, Millicent Fanny (1883 - 1955)
  • Related Organisations
    • The United Associations of Women (1929 - )
  • Executive Member
    • Littlejohn, Emma Linda Palmer (1883 - 1949)
  • Related Concepts
    • Women's Non-party Political Organisations

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