Alice Henry: The Power of Pen and Voice
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Alice Henry: The Power of Pen and Voice: The Life of an Australian-American Labor Reformer

Alice Henry: The Power of Pen and Voice: The Life of an Australian-American Labor Reformer


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In this, the first biography of Alice Henry (1857–1943), Diane Kirkby presents us with an intelligent, formidable woman of great energy who was a pioneer in both the Australian and American labour movements early this century and a feminist who fought for the rights of millions of women in both countries. After a childhood largely spent in the Australian bush, Alice Henry became a journalist and suffragist in Melbourne, where she witnessed the growth and upheavals of the Australian labour movement and consequent experiments in state regulation of industrial relations. During her 28 years in America she became a prominent figure in the Women's Trade Union league and campaigned for the rights of wage-earning women using her powers of 'pen and voice' as a writer and lecturer. Through empathising with Alice Henry, readers can increase their understanding of a critical period in history, when progressive networks were far more international than might be expected and women played a central role in the creation of the welfare state.

Table of Contents:
Introduction; 1. 'Childhood in a new country': the early years, 1857–1884; 2. 'The sistership of womanhood': an international feminist 1884–1905; 3. 'Suffragizing the labour movement': working for the W.T.U.L. 1906–1910; 4. 'Not mere philanthropy': editing Life and Labor 1911–1915; 5. 'The Trade Union Woman': feminism and industrial legislation 1915–1920; 6. 'Tapping the untouched possibilities': educating women for industrial democracy 1920–1926; 7. 'Letters and a common past': the numbing defeat of old age 1927–1943; Epilogue.

Review :
"With insight, skill, and empathy, Kirkby contextualizes the life of a representative woman of the educated middle class who embraced the need to be self-supporting...In recovering Henry's 'industrial feminism,' Kirkby has made a major contribution to the debate over what constituted early twentieth-century feminism." The Journal of American History


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780521391023
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Height: 239 mm
  • No of Pages: 280
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 774 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0521391024
  • Publisher Date: 26 Apr 1991
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Life of an Australian-American Labor Reformer
  • Width: 170 mm


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