Hot topics - Queensland women's suffrage and future HER/izons
2005 marked two significant Queensland anniversaries of women's suffrage: 100 years for white and 40 years for indigenous women. This page explores some of the issues highlighted in the State Library of Queensland HER/izons Symposium which looked to the future lives of women in this state.
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Please note: links on this page to State Library of Queensland catalogue searches and to non-State Library websites will open in a new window.
The catalogue provides access to a range of research and reference material.
These are some topics:
- Women's employment and careers
- Women and politics in Australia
- Women and the vote
- Feminism and Australia
Find articles in online databases:
Try the searches below, or create your own combination of keywords.
No login is needed to access these databases at the State Library.
Please note: To access these database links from your home or any offsite computer connected to the internet, you need to log in to each database. Log in to the offsite databases using your Queensland public library membership card or a State Library e-services card.
MasterFilePREMIER - full text information from more than 2000 resources covering virtually all general interest subjects. Note: MasterFile Premier is only available onsite at the State Library.
Encyclopaedia Britannica - a reference site for students, educators, and parents, it includes editorially reviewed websites and the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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Australia/NZ Reference Centre - includes Australasian magazines, newspapers, reference books and company information.
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Search NetLinks (websites selected by library staff).
Try searching under keywords such as feminism, women and politics or future
For further information on women's suffrage visit the following online resources and websites:
Centenary of Women's Suffrage 2005: Office for Women [new window http://www.women.qld.gov.au/?id=489] provides historical information about the struggle to gain the vote, and resources to download or order.
Centenary of Queensland Women's Suffrage [new window http://emsah.uq.edu.au/awsr/Act_Centenary/] from the School of EMSAH at University of Queensland.
Metafuture.org [new window http://www.metafuture.org/] Online Future Studies Journal co-hosted by Ivana Milojevic.
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Last updated: 22nd August 2008
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