LEADER 02484oam 2200397zn 450 001 9910793471403321 005 20230203201118.0 010 $a0-522-86991-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000007758713 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5683225 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007758713 100 $a20190317d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAgitate, educate, organise, legislate $eProtestant women's social action in post-suffrage Australia /$fEllen Warne 210 1$aCarlton, Vic.:$cMUP Academic Digital,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 274 pages) 225 1 $aHistory series (MUP academic) 311 0 $a0-522-86990-4 330 $aAfter successfully agitating for the vote for women from the 1890s, Protestant women's organisations in Australia began to educate women at a grassroots level on effective ways of applying political pressure on a wide range of topics and social concerns. These organisations sought to agitate on a wide range of issues related to girls and women, connecting with public anxieties and highlighting particular vulnerabilities of girls and young women who lived alone in the city and had the potential to be exploited in the workforce. By the 1920s and 1930s these women's groups noted with concern the easier access to divorce and birth control in the Soviet Union and the growing influence of both Communism and 'Hitlerism' in galvanising young people. Agitate, Educate, Organise, Legislate explores the colourful debates and anxieties that were prevalent from the 1890s to the 1930s and the responses of the key women's organisations whose leadership and campaigns acknowledged that--outside of parliament and party politics--women's connection to political matters could be both innovative and socially influential. 410 0$aHistory series (Melbourne University Press) 606 $aProtestant women$zAustralia$xHistory 606 $aSocial action$zAustralia$xHistory 606 $aWomen$zAustralia$xSocial conditions$y19th century 606 $aWomen$zAustralia$xSocial conditions$y20th century 615 0$aProtestant women$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial action$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen$xSocial conditions 615 0$aWomen$xSocial conditions 700 $aWarne$b Ellen$01578117 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793471403321 996 $aAgitate, educate, organise, legislate$93857262 997 $aUNINA