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Eilean Giblin arrived in Australia from England in 1919 with a shipload of war brides, almost certainly the only woman not wearing a wedding ring; she believed both husband and wife should have rings or neither.

What was it like to be involved in the heady days of 'second wave' feminism in Australia, when the role of women at home and at work changed decisively?.

Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Courtney Barnett allows rare access to her life on tour and artistic process in this intimate 16mm documentary for devotees and new fans alike.

The present article reports on a research project investigating the experiences of male primary teachers in Queensland, Australia. While its findings cannot be presented as indicative of all male teachers in all contexts, it does, however, send a warning to policy-makers that the employment of more male teachers may not be in the best interests of gender justice unless such strategies designed to attract more male teachers are informed by sophisticated understandings of gender and social power. Utilising a (pro) feminist post-structuralist theoretical perspective, it is demonstrated how some male teachers contribute to the maintenance of segregated work roles, which is of central importance to the continuance of gender power differentials in a patriarchal society. The research method focused on social relationships and involved a series of semi-structured/life history interviews with 11 male teachers, six female teachers, two male principals and two female principals. An important implication from this research is that the employment of male teachers must be accompanied by an awareness of how teacher practice impacts upon the socialisation of students and how such practice reinforces or contributes to change in the broader gender system.

Zelda D'Aprano was a woman at the forefront of Australia's Women's Liberation Movement. In her autobiography she exudes the same spirit evidenced when chaining herself to Melbourne's Commonwealth Building to protest unequal pay. The life of a remarkable woman who often battled alone for what women today take for granted.

Marou and Claire met at a bar in Tokyo. Separated by seventeen years in age, by their cultural origins and by the requirements of visas, they have managed to maintain their relationship through these vicissitudes. Love Upon the Chopping Board explores the personal and political lesbianism in Japan and Australia.

Jessie Street took part in her first international conference of women in 1914 and worked for political reform in Australia and within the international feminist network in the interwar years. In 1945 she was the only woman appointed to Australia's delegation to the founding conference of the UN in San Francisco. With South American and Scandinavian women delegates, she played a major role in the establishment of the United Nations Commission for the Status of Women and took part in the drafting of the Declaration of Human Rights.

Rose Summerfield (1864-1922), feminist, labour activist and radical, spread 'the gospel of discontent' amongst the Sydney working class in the 1890s. Discontent was a defining metaphor of fin de siecle radicalism, a condition of restless proselytising expressed in a range of experimental political, religious and cultural organisations and movements. Rose Summerfield fitfully embraced secularism, women's suffrage, temperance, labour mobilisation and radical politics. In key texts and performances such as the 1892 Master and Man lecture Summerfield dramatically personalised the sufferings and fears of the working class. Summerfield's radical texts and performances represented an expression of narrative identity, identifying her subjective sense of self and alienation with the injustice inflected upon women and the working class. Summerfield's strident racism reflected a need for self definition and social integration, a vilification of the other designed to secure the self in a racially homogeneous and economically stable society. Yet race reflected the turbulent and destabilised nature of Rose Summerfield's gospel of discontent.

Jean Devanny is remembered as one of the staunchest female advocates of communism in New South Wales in the 1930s. She had immense oratorical prowess which she passionately used for proclaiming socialist-inspired solutions to the economic depression of the era. She was also an outspoken supporter of sexual liberation even though, at that time, not even radical communists voiced out such ideas. For her and for some of the party's leaders, total freedom should extend towards the breaking of puritan-moralist restraints.

Very little Australian literature looks at women as leaders in education. Using theoretical viewpoints emerging out of a biographical and historical analysis, it is possible to construct a more inclusive model of leadership which includes both men and women in the past. Mapping such a process historically and biographically can give a detailed assessment of the social, historical and political dimensions of particular women leaders′ lives and also develop a theoretical framework, which gives equal status to the leadership experiences more common to women. Presents a historical narrative where recording lives raises critical questions at the same time as it unearths new evidence of the history of women educationists in Australia.