{"id":1022,"date":"2018-10-01T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2023-04-13T20:47:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T10:47:11","slug":"celebrating-the-great-achievement-of-white-womens-suffrage-in-1902","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1022","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Great Achievement of White Women&#8217;s Suffrage in 1902"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clare Wright&#8217;s new book &#8220;You Daughters of Freedom&#8221; is published today by Text.\u00a0It covers the\u00a0active\u00a0lives\u00a0of Dora Montefiore; Nellie Martel; Muriel Matters, Dora\u00a0Coates Meeson and Vida Goldstein, five feminists who came out of the Australian\u00a0suffragette movement of the late 19th century. Clare&#8217;s book &#8220;recuperates a forgotten age of exuberant nationalism, one that has been overtaken by the contemporary\u00a0Anzac myths of World War I.\u00a0Reactionary politicians and media jocks, claiming to defend Australian history against the unpatriotic critique of academics\u00a0rushed to diminish it by finding nothing, in the riches of Australia&#8217;s social and political past,\u00a0to compare\u00a0with the defeat and death of a handful of soldiers in a far-off land.&#8221;\u00a0 (not even\u00a0<em>our land\u00a0<\/em>but by invading\u00a0the sovereign\u00a0territory of another country WfaAR adds). &#8220;Wright aims to wrest Australians away from their prolonged obsession with Gallipoli as the &#8216;founding moment&#8217; of nationhood by reminding readers that before WWI, there was something much more to celebrate ie the political rights (principally the vote)\u00a0that an idealistic, young and forward-looking nation granted to its non-Indigenous female citizens.&#8221; (extended to Indigenous women in 1962). Quotes from\u00a0a book review: &#8220;The women who paved the way&#8221; by Penny Russell, Bicentennial Professor of Australian History at the University of\u00a0Sydney,\u00a0in the\u00a0Fairfax press 27 October 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clare Wright&#8217;s new book &#8220;You Daughters of Freedom&#8221; is published today by Text.\u00a0It covers the\u00a0active\u00a0lives\u00a0of Dora Montefiore; Nellie Martel; Muriel Matters, Dora\u00a0Coates Meeson and Vida Goldstein, five feminists who came out of the Australian\u00a0suffragette movement of the late 19th century&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","wpcat-14-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}