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- ISBN 10 0670079499
- ISBN 13 9780670079490
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- EditorTore Rem
- IllustratorR.H. Lazzell
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Vida : A Woman for Our Time
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Penguin Random House Australia, Australia, 2020
ISBN 10: 0670079499
ISBN 13: 9780670079490
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Seller: Good Reading Secondhand Books, Benalla, VIC, Australia
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. xv, 314 pages, 8 pages of plates. A couple of paragraphs have been flagged with a line, in pencil, along the outer edge and three names written in pencil on the back end papers, all three associated with Vida Goldstein. A clean, unmarked and solid copy. "Vida Goldstein was an advocate for women's rights, a campaigner for peace, fought for the distribution of wealth, and a trail-blazer who provided leadership and inspiration to innumerable people. Blazing her trail at the dawn of the twentieth century, Vida Goldstein remains Australia's most celebrated crusader for the rights of women. Her life - as a campaigner for the suffrage in Australia, Britain and America, an advocate for peace, a fighter for social equality and a shrewd political commentator - marks her as one of Australia's foremost women of courage and principle. Vida first came to national prominence as the first woman in the Western world to stand for a national Parliament, in Victoria, for the Senate, in 1903. As a fighter for equal rights for women, and as a champion of social justice, she quickly established a pattern of working quietly against men's control of Australian society. Her work for the peace movement and against conscription during the heightened emotions of the First World War showed her determination to defy governments in the name of fairness and equity. Vida came to adulthood when Australia was in the process of inventing itself as a new nation, one in which women might have opportunities equal to those of men. Her work for her own sex, especially her battles for equality in politics, illuminated issues that persist to this day.Jacqueline Kent has written acclaimed biographies of Julia Gillard, pianist and social activist Hephzibah Menuhin, and pioneer book editor Beatrice Davis. (Publisher). Seller Inventory # 020019
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