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Author Goodall, Heather, author.

Title Teacher for justice : Lucy Woodcock's transnational life / Heather Goodall, Helen Randerson, and Devleena Ghosh.

Publication Info. Acton, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, [2019]
©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 350 pages) : illustrations (some color)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Note Print version record.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-334) and index.
Contents Learning : Unions and the World: 1910s and 1920s. 1. Introduction : A Transnational Life -- 2. Unions -- Scars : 1930s. 3. Hunger -- 4. Love -- 5. Unity and Betrayal -- 6. Refugees and Hope -- 7. What Sort of Australia? 1938 -- Expanding Visions : 1939-1946. 8. Women and War -- 9. Recognising Race : Decolonisation -- Crossing Borders : 1945-1960s. 10. Red Scare -- 11. Into Asia -- 12. Peace and Prejudice -- 13. Uniting Women -- 14. Bringing the World Back Home -- Legacy. 15. Young in Hope.
Summary 'Teacher for Justice is a major contribution to the history of the women's movement, working-class activism and Australian political internationalism. But it is more than this. By focusing on the life of Lucy Woodcock - an unrecognised and under-researched figure - this book rewrites the history of twentieth-century Australia from the perspective of an activist who challenged conventions to fight for gender, race and class equality, exploring the complex and multi-layered intersections of these aspects. It explores Woodcock's personal relationships and the circles she mixed in and the friendships she forged, as well as the conventions she challenged as a single woman in possibly a same-sex relationship. The book makes a key contribution to the history of progressive education and the experience of women teachers. Above all, it charts the life of a transnational figure who made connections globally and, in particular, with refugees and with women in India and the Asian region. It is a detailed, thoroughly researched and richly textured history which places Woodcock within the context of the times in which she lived.'--Joy Damousi, Professor of History, University of Melbourne.
Subject Woodcock, Lucy, 1889-1968.
Social reformers -- Australia -- Biography.
Women social reformers -- Australia -- Biography.
Teachers -- Australia -- Biography.
Women teachers -- Australia -- Biography.
Women -- Australia -- Social conditions.
Réformateurs sociaux -- Australie -- Biographies.
Réformatrices sociales -- Australie -- Biographies.
Enseignants -- Australie -- Biographies.
Enseignantes -- Australie -- Biographies.
Femmes -- Australie -- Conditions sociales.
History -- Modern -- 20th century.
Biography & Autobiography -- Historical.
Social Science -- Discrimination.
Women -- Social conditions
Women teachers
Women social reformers
Teachers
Social reformers
Women -- Biography
Women -- Political activity
Australia https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRv8PPH7gCqhkJ8DK8bM
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Biography
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Added Author Randerson, Helen, author.
Ghosh, Devleena, author.
Other Form: Print version: Goodall, Heather. Teacher for justice : Lucy Woodcock's transnational life. Canberra : ANU Press, ©2019 9781760463045
ISBN 9781760463052 (electronic bk.)
1760463051 (electronic bk.)
9781760463045 (print)
1760463043
Standard No. AU@ 000066132753

 
    
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