women

Candlestick telephone, 1966

Candlestick telephone, 1966

Location

Australia

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H26975

Queensland Museum

Sweden

23 November 2010

Australia

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Dimensions

213mm

152mm

97mm

Battle of Brisbane – Australian masculinity under threat

When thinking of the great battlefields of World War II it is Stalingrad’s rooftops, London’s skyline and the jungles of Burma that come to mind, not the sleepy 'big country town' of Brisbane.

Fortress Queensland 1942-45

Queensland was a frontline of Allied efforts in the Pacific War of 1941-45, and especially in the crisis year of 1942.

Women's woodchop, Goombungee show, c1960. Slides by John Thun, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

Centaur poster, c1943

Centaur poster, c1943. 'Work, save, fight and so avenge the nurses!', poster by unknown artist. Collection of the Australian War Memorial

Location

Australia

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“Organisation is for the purpose of developing the latent talents of the women. See how we live! Nothing uplifting about our lives is there? We’ve got no objective. We live and breed and die. Life isn’t meant to be like that. Life is meant for joy and expansion and objective living. I think it’s the job of women to rear a race of young who will live better lives than we live; who will be able to create a better world than we, their elders, have been able to create. It’s not a question of what women can do; it is what can’t they do?

1982

1936

2 September 2010

246, 298

Redback Press

Melbourne

Carole Ferrier, ‘Jean Devanny: Romantic Revolutionary, Journal of Australian Studies, nos 54-55, 1997

Nicole Moore, ‘Remember love and struggle?: reading Jean Devanny's Sugar Heaven in contemporary Australian contexts’, Australian Literary Studies, v21, no3, May 2004

Changing landscape of radicalism

Queensland has always been known for its extremes.

Separate spheres: gender and dress codes

What separate spheres do women and men inhabit, and is there a particular Queensland style?

The separate-cell design of one of the two cellblocks in Brisbane prison, Petrie Terrace, c1868. Some female prisoners were still housed in an associated ward here, and it was 1903 before a purpose-built separate-cell prison was constructed specifically for women in Queensland. From Report on Prison Discipline, 1868. Collection of Christopher Dawson.

Collection of Christopher Dawson

Women cycling through the Botanic Gardens, Brisbane, 1896. Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 7871-0001-0023

women

Candlestick telephone, 1966

Location

Battle of Brisbane – Australian masculinity under threat

Fortress Queensland 1942-45

Women's woodchop, Goombungee show, c1960

Centaur poster, c1943

Location

Jean Devanny, Sugar Heaven

Changing landscape of radicalism

Separate spheres: gender and dress codes

Separate prison cell design, 1868

Women cycling through the Botanic Gardens, Brisbane, 1896