Inconvenient Women

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)>Australia's crusaders for women's voting rights and the radical feminists of the 1970s changed lives across the country and around the globe. But what about the generation in between?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)>Throughout the twentieth century a group of trailblazing women writers challenged the nation's status quo. Miles Franklin's forceful voice invigorated the emerging women's movement Mary Gilmore was a groundbreaking feminist journalist and novelists Katharine Susannah Prichard and Eleanor Dark explored the colonial displacement of Australia's Indigenous people. Kylie Tennant spoke up for battlers during the Depression. Dymphna Cusack Katharine Susannah Prichard and Dorothy Hewett all members of Australia's Communist Party advocated for social reform. Ruth Park's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)>The Harp in the South</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)> jolted the NSW government into developing slum clearance programs. And the work of First Nations poet and activist Kath Walker (later Oodgeroo Noonuccal) was crucial in achieving constitutional reform for Indigenous peoples.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)>Acclaimed biographer Jacqueline Kent traces these women's stories shaped by the seismic social and political events of their time and illuminates their immense courage and principled determination to change the world.</span></p><p></p><p></p>