- Title
- Intimate, imperial, intergenerational: settler women's mobilities and gender politics in Newcastle and the Hunter Valley
- Creator
- McIntyre, Julie; Conway, Jude
- Relation
- Funding BodyARCGrant NumberLP140100146 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP140100146
- Relation
- Journal of Australian Colonial History Vol. 19, p. 161-184
- Relation
- http://www.une.edu.au/about-une/faculty-of-humanities-arts-social-sciences-and-education/school-of-humanities/research/journal-of-australian-colonial-history/jach-volumes
- Publisher
- University of New England, School of Humanities
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- In 1891, six women founded the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales, an organisation that would prove pivotal in campaigns to win women the vote. Among the League’s inaugural Sydney-based executive were two women who spent their formative years in the Hunter Valley: Mary Windeyer and Rose Scott. These women belonged to the second-settler generation of four, interlinked middle-class families who travelled into, within and outward from Newcastle and the Hunter. Windeyer, Scott and some of their peers also journeyed further than their grandmothers, mothers, aunts and mothers-in-law by crossing the gendered divide from the private sphere of femininity and family into the male domains of political activism and higher education. The coastal city and river valley where these women began or anchored their lives has been identified chiefly as industrial and masculine; a misperception this article seeks to address. We pursue these women through a range of oblique, partial and sometimes conflicting fragments of evidence which, pieced together, reveal a feminine presence in Newcastle and the Hunter region, making itself known through mobilities and interrelationships in a time of social and political change.
- Subject
- Hunter Valley, (NSW); Newcastle, (NSW); gender politics; Suffragette movement; gender equality; feminism
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1386459
- Identifier
- uon:32421
- Identifier
- ISSN:1441-0370
- Language
- eng
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