• Entry type: Publication
  • Entry ID: AWE6506

Refractory Girl

(1972 – 1999)
  • Occupation Publication, Women's advocate

Summary

Refractory Girl was the first Australian women’s studies journal. The primary purpose of the journal was to force ‘an awareness in all those who presume to write about society that the world is not composed entirely of men’.

Archival resources

  • National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
    • Papers of Anne Summers, 1967-2007 [manuscript]
  • Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection
    • Eva Cox papers, ca. 1974-ca. 1994
  • National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
    • Anne Summers interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
    • Ann Curthoys interviewed by Susan Marsden [sound recording]

Related entries


  • Foundation Member
    • Ryan, Lyndall (1943 - 2024)
    • Summers, Anne Fairhurst (1945 - )
  • Related Women
    • Leonard, Marjorie (Helen) (1945 - 2001)
    • Fletcher, Karen
    • Curthoys, Ann (1945 - )
    • Matthews, Jill Julius (1949 - )

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