Publications

Publications used in research

Radford, Gail (2014). Researching WEL’s History: short histories, memoirs, newsletters and university theses.
 

Book of the WEL history project

Sawer, Marian with Gail Radford (2008). Making women count: a history of the Women’s Electoral Lobby in Australia. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press.

Sample chapters: Chapter 1 and Chapter 8 of the book are available as samples.These are early draft chapters only and subject to copyright. They may not be quoted without permission of Emeritus Professor Marian Sawer, who can be contacted on marian.sawer@anu.edu.au.

Book reviews:

• Dowse, Sara (2008). ‘Shining stars in feminist struggle’ Canberra Times, Panorama, Book p. 13, December 20, 2008.
• Brigden, Cathy (2009). ‘How women shaped the political landscape’ Australian Feminist Studies, 24:62, pp. 469-71.
• Jenkins, Cathy (2009). Labour History, Book Review, Vol. 97, November 2009.
• Stock, Jenny Tilby (2009). ‘Making Women Count: A History of the Women’s Electoral Lobby in Australia’, Australian Journal of Political Science, 44(3), September 2009, pp. 552-3.
• Willett, Graham (2010). ‘Making Women Count: A History of the Women’s Electoral Lobby in Australia’, Australian Historical Studies, 41(1), March 2010, pp. 115-6.

Other publications by members of the WEL history project team

Andrew, Merrindahl (2014). ‘Women’s Electoral Lobby’, in Shurlee Swain and Judith Smart (eds), The Encyclopedia of Women & Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Australian Women’s Archives Project.

Andrew, Merrindahl (forthcoming 2014). ‘Getting Pragmatic: WEL on the continuum of radicalism', Australian Feminist Studies.

Radford, Gail & Marian Sawer (2009). ‘Women’s Electoral Lobby’. In Jenny Gregory and Jan Gothard (eds), Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia. Perth: University of Western Australia Press, pp. 942–43.

Radford, Gail (2010). ‘Reflections of a Feminist’ (includes part of Gail’s speech to WEL–ACT’s 30th Anniversary Dinner, 11 April 2002). In Maureen Anderson et al (eds), Retroactive 2 Stage 5 Australian History, Third Edition. Brisbane: John Wiley & Sons Australia, pp. 323. 

Radford, Gail (2013). My life in Canberra. A Floor Talk on 7 March 2013 held in the Canberra Museum and Gallery’s exhibition on The Women who made Canberra. Items from the WEL history project, which were on display, are discussed.

Sawer, Marian, Jasmina Brankovich & Gail Radford (2006). ‘Generations of Advocacy’. In Louise Chappell & Deborah Brennan (eds), “no fit place for a woman?”  Women in New South Wales politics 1856–2006. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, pp. 200-24.

Sawer, Marian (2010). ‘Women’s Work is Never Done: The Pursuit of Equality and the Commonwealth Sex Discrimination Act’. In Margaret Thornton (ed), Sex Discrimination in Uncertain Times. Canberra: ANU E Press, pp. 75-92.

Sawer, Marian & Merrindahl Andrew (2013). ‘Hiding in plain sight: Australian women’s advocacy organisations’. In Sarah Maddison & Marian Sawer (eds), The Women’s Movement in Protest, Institutions and the Internet: Australia in transnational perspective. London: Routledge, pp. 87-104.
 

Papers and Presentations

Sawer, Marian (2004). Liberal Reformists or Hairy-Legged Stalinists? Writing WEL History. A talk presented at the National Library of Australia on 10 March 2004. (This talk refers to a number of photos that can be found in the Photograph Gallery or in other reports and papers on this website)

Sawer, Marian (2004). The Commonwealth Sex Discrimination Act: Aspirations and Apprehensions. An address to the Forum held to mark the 20th Anniversary of the Commonwealth Sex Discrimination Act 1984, held at the University of Sydney on 3 August 2004.

Radford, Gail (2004). A History of WEL in Canberra. A talk to the ACT Heritage Studies Network in the Canberra Museum and Gallery, 16 March 2004.

Radford, Gail (2004). WEL Women–then and now. A Progress Report on the WEL History Project. A presentation to the 17th WEL National Conference held in Sydney, 12-13 June 2004.

Radford, Gail (2012). Reflections on WEL’s first year. An address to WEL–ACT’s 40th anniversary reunion dinner, held in Canberra on 23 November 2012.

Radford, Gail with Marian Sawer & Erica Fisher (2012).  A history of WEL–ACT. This brief history of WEL–ACT was prepared in 2012 for the Australian Women’s Archives Project’s online exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher—A Century of Women’s Contributions to Canberra. It was also handed out at WEL–ACT’s 40th anniversary reunion dinner.

Radford, Gail (2013). Archiving WEL’s history. This paper describes the archiving of material from the WEL history project and WEL–Australia in 2010. These documents were transferred to the National Library of Australia on 25 June 2010 and were allocated the accession number MS Acc10.116. The Consolidated Box List provides details of the contents of MS Acc10.116.

Radford, Gail (2020). Women Against Rape in War (PDF). As part of the exhibition Activism-Forces for Change in Canberra, Gail Radford gave a floor talk at the Canberra Museum and Gallery on Women Against Rape in War on 9 October 2019. 

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