Mending Matters : Reflections and Flights of Fantasy Prompted by 100 Years of Women's Suffrage

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Author:agent Janis Bailey

Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Mending Matters : Reflections and Flights of Fantasy Prompted by 100 Years of Women's Suffrage

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'This is a beautifully produced piece of 'community writing', published by the State Library of Queensland to celebrate a century of (white) women's suffrage, and the scant 40 years of Indigenous suffrage.

The book comprises two threads. One is a series of five commissioned essays; the other is a daisy chain of quotes from short pieces that a variety of Queensland women wrote in response to a call to imagine what life would be like for women. in 50 years' time. There are some engaging cartoons on women's suffrage from The Worker and The Australian Women's Sphere. The book is beautifully designed, with a dreamlike cover based on an artwork by Caitlin Reid.' (Introduction)

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y Queensland Review vol. 13 no. 1 2006 Z1366647 2006 periodical issue Abstract
'This issue opens with papers on colonial Queensland by Kerry Heckenberg and Denis Cryle. Heckenberg's paper, 'Conflicting Visions', explores the life and art of the Queensland-born painter William George Wilson, whose work graces our cover. In a serendipitous connection with Denis Cryle's paper, William George Wilson (1849-1924) was the son' of the wealthy Scottish squatter William Wilson,. who arrived in Moreton Bay in 1843. Cryle's paper, 'Scottish Intellectuals in Colonial Queensland', argues that the dominant narrative of the colonial Scots as entrepreneurial and often ruthless pastoralists, politicians and businessmen fails to take into account the contributions of Scots to education, journalism, and the life of the mind ·and soul more generally. His case studies of two exemplars of 'Scotus Intellectualis' - John Dunmore Lang and George Wight - outline the intellectual and civic contributions of these two Protestant clergymen to the early colony of Queensland.' (Editorial)
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