Modern Women's Club. (1938-1950)

Function
Political organisation and Social action organisation
NLA Persistent Identifier
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-726098

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Formed by Katharine Susannah Prichard in 1938 the Modern Women’s Club began as a coalition of women from the Communist Party and the Australian Labor Party’s Council Against War and Fascism. It sought to provide a forum for women “of all parties and opinions” to discuss and act on issues of the day. As Joan Williams notes, it was considered by some as “most avant-garde for the time”. The Modern Women’s Club rejected notions of “womanly” preoccupations instead acting as a forum in which working and Aboriginal women could discuss issues of the day, in particular, peace. The club’s other key concerns included equal pay, rights for women and citizenship rights for Aborigines.

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Australian Women's Register

  1. The first furrow
    Williams, Justina
    [1976]
    Published: Lone Hand Press
  2. JS Battye Library of West Australian History, State Library of Western Australia: Union of Australian Women. Western Australian Branch (1938 - 1973)
    This collection includes the records of the Western Australian branch of the Modern Women’s Club and the Union of Australian Women. It includes correspondence regarding International Women’s Day, files about moral and social issues, equal pay for women, political issues and the Wooraloo Hospital dispute. Records Annual reports (1954-1962); correspondence (1938-1973), including correspondence on International Women's Day (1938-1969); minutes (1961-1972), newsletters and subject files on social, moral and political topics e.g. equal pay, Wooroloo Hospital controversy ; file of documents and correspondence relating to the State Editorial Committee for "Our women" magazine; photographs. Includes eulogy, given by her daughter Olga on 15 May 1986, for Elsie Peders, a member of the Modern Women's Club and the Union of Australian Women.
    ACC 1838A, 5003A, 5160A

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Anonymous
2010-09-16 12:34:09.0

Joan (Justina) Williams died on the 21 June 2008 - perhaps you could update your records.

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