Seizing the Initiative brings together a wide range of research to reveal how women in Australia in the twentieth century have negotiated leadership not only in formal politics and political lobby groups, but also at work, in business, in communities and in religious and cultural arenas. The contributors place women’s leadership within the broader setting of historical change in Australia dur-ing the twentieth century: first and second wave feminism, the world wars, growing educational opportunities and increased workplace participation. From colonial concerns to corporate life, the chapters illustrate the many advances made by women and the barriers that still stand between women and leadership roles. It is a collection that uncovers the diverse ways women have performed leadership and confirms that this knowledge is vital to developing broader understandings of leadership.
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Framing the Issues
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Identifying Women Leaders in Twentieth-Century Australia: An Introduction
Rosemary Francis, Patricia Grimshaw and Ann Standish | FULL TEXT
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Not Just 'Adding Women in': Women Re-making Leadership
Amanda Sinclair | ABSTRACT
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The New Dominion
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Lady Northcote: Leading Light and Sponsor of the First Australian Exhibition of Women's Work
Elizabeth Taylor | ABSTRACT
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Leading the Call for 'One Vote and No More': Emma Miller (1839-1917)
Deborah Jordan | ABSTRACT
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'Advertising the Work': Women's Suffrage Campaigns Leading the Way in Modern Media Publicity
Ellen Warne | ABSTRACT
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A Leader without Authority: Mary Consuelo de la Cruz Batiz and Missionary Women at New Norcia
Katharine Massam | ABSTRACT
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Daisy Bates: Dubious Leadership
Ann Standish | ABSTRACT
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Behind the Mulga Curtain and beyond the Grave: Mary Montgomerie Bennett's Leadership in Aboriginal Affairs, 1930-1961
Sue Taffe | ABSTRACT
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The New Woman Citizen
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'Really Rather Extraordinary': The Leadership of Matron Beryl Campbell in the Australian Army Nursing Service in World War I
Anne Prince | ABSTRACT
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Fannie Eleanor Williams: Bacteriologist and Serologist
Kirsty Harris | ABSTRACT
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The 1920s: A Good Decade for Women in Politics
Bridget Brooklyn | ABSTRACT
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'Housewives' Leader Awarded MBE': Women, Leadership and Honours in Australia
Karen Fox | ABSTRACT
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Divine Horizons: Religion and Social Class in the Lives of Two Leading Australian Women, Betty Archdale and Kylie Tennant
Deidre Michell | ABSTRACT
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May Cox: Leading Swimming and Lifesaving Advocate and Patriotic Fundraiser, 1910-1938
Deborah Towns | ABSTRACT
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Making a Mark in the Professions
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'The Keystone of the Arch': University Education and the Leadership of Early Women Graduates
Alison Mackinnon | ABSTRACT
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Women Research Leaders in the Australian Learned Academies, 1954-1976
Patricia Grimshaw and Rosemary Francis | ABSTRACT
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Women and Leadership in the Australian Architecture Profession: Prelude to a Research Project
Gill Matthewson, Naomi Stead and Karen Burns | ABSTRACT
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Women's Struggle for Top Jobs in the News Media
Louise North | ABSTRACT
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'What's a Nice Girl like you Doing with a Nobel Prize?' Elizabeth Blackburn, 'Australia's' First Woman Nobel Laureate and Women's Scientific Leadership
Jane Carey | ABSTRACT
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Volunteers and Activists
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The 'Fully-ordained-meat-pie' Problem: Women Church Workers and Leadership under Australian Democracy
Anne O'Brien | ABSTRACT
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'Mother to Mother': Mary Paton's Leadership in the Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia, 1964-1975
Karen Twigg and Jill Barnard | ABSTRACT
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Ruby Langford Ginibi: Bundjalung Historian, Writer and Educator
Patricia Grimshaw | ABSTRACT
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'Nobody but a Bunch of Mothers': Grassroots Activism and Women's Leadership in 1970s Melbourne
Renate Howe | ABSTRACT
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Understanding 'Leading that Liberates': Liz Jones and Leadership as Life/Work
Julie Evans | ABSTRACT
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Empowering Rural Communities through Leadership: Rural Australians for Refugees, 2001-2007
Ann-Mari Jordens | ABSTRACT
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Gender and Politics
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Queensland Speaks: Women Talking about Leadership
Casey Northam and Danielle Miller | ABSTRACT
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The Nature of Women's Political Leadership: Women MPs in the Parliament of Victoria
Madeline Grey | ABSTRACT
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Leadership in the Constituency Service of Women Labor Members of Parliament
Jackie Dickenson | ABSTRACT
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'Politics as War': Women and Leadership into the Future
Kathryn Gooch | ABSTRACT
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