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'Eilean Giblin arrived in Australia from England in 1919 with a shipload of war brides, almost certainly the only woman not wearing a wedding ring. She believed both husband and wife should have rings or neither. She brought with her a commitment to women’s rights and social justice developed through the suffrage movement and left-wing social and political circles. During the next three decades, in three Australian cities, she worked to advance her feminist and humanitarian ideals.
'In Hobart in the 1920s she campaigned for ‘equal citizenship’; she was the first woman appointed to a Tasmanian hospital board, and she represented Tasmania at the 1923 International Woman Suffrage Congress in Rome. In Melbourne in the 1930s she led a committee that achieved the long sought goal of a non-denominational university women’s college. And in Canberra during World War II she was one of a small minority of Australians who championed the cause of the enemy aliens, many of them Jewish, deported from Britain on the ship Dunera, and she set off on a lone 500 kilometre journey to investigate their internment camp conditions.
'Patricia Clarke draws on original records and evidence, such as Giblin’s diary kept during World War II – a unique social record and a powerful witness to the immense suffering and futility of war – to portray the courageous public and private life of this unconventional feminist.' (Publisher's blurb)
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"No woman's life is a single story"
Sarah Pritchard Revealing Women's Life Stories
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Review : Eilean Giblin: A Feminist between the Wars
2014
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— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 45 no. 3 2014; (p. 472-473)
— Review of Eilean Giblin : A Feminist between the Wars 2013 single work biography -
An Unknown, an Interloper, a Feminist
2014
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review
— Appears in: Inside Story , March 2014; Inside Story , May no. 20 2014; (p. 13)
— Review of Eilean Giblin : A Feminist between the Wars 2013 single work biography -
Singing the Unsung
2014
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— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 11 no. 1 2014; (p. 258-260)
— Review of Eilean Giblin : A Feminist between the Wars 2013 single work biography -
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2014
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— Appears in: Australian Journal of Politics & History , vol. 60 no. 1 2014; (p. 138-139)
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[Review] Eilean Giblin : A Feminist between the Wars
2014
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— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , November vol. 38 no. 4 2014; (p. 513-515)
— Review of Eilean Giblin : A Feminist between the Wars 2013 single work biography Published online 12 November 2014.
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— Appears in: Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal , November vol. 21 no. 3 2013; (p. 459-462)
— Review of Eilean Giblin : A Feminist between the Wars 2013 single work biography -
[Untitled]
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Politics & History , vol. 60 no. 1 2014; (p. 138-139)
— Review of Eilean Giblin : A Feminist between the Wars 2013 single work biography -
Singing the Unsung
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 11 no. 1 2014; (p. 258-260)
— Review of Eilean Giblin : A Feminist between the Wars 2013 single work biography -
An Unknown, an Interloper, a Feminist
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Inside Story , March 2014; Inside Story , May no. 20 2014; (p. 13)
— Review of Eilean Giblin : A Feminist between the Wars 2013 single work biography -
Review : Eilean Giblin: A Feminist between the Wars
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 45 no. 3 2014; (p. 472-473)
— Review of Eilean Giblin : A Feminist between the Wars 2013 single work biography