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Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. ix, 293pp, index, endnotes, bw ills. Or card. Slight fading at spine. SIGNED and inscribed by Lawrence Street. A selection of Jessie Street's letters, speeches, statements, submissions and reports - and twelve essays on her career as a feminist, international lobbyist, peace activist and campaigner for Aboriginal rights. She stood 3 times for election to Parliament and during WWII called 92 feminist and worker organisations togetehr to endorse a program of postwar reconstruction, which among other reforms called for equal apy, Constitutional amendment to invalidate legislation which discrimated on grounds of sex, and the payment of a personal endowment to mothers caring for young children. Size: 8vo. …