Jessie Street: A rewarding but unrewarded life
University of Queensland Press, $6.25 pb, 218 pp
Biography
A disappointing biography
by Margaret Allen •
Jessie Street, the subject of this biography, is one of the women we have ignored. She is an important figure in our history, but few people know much about her life. She was involved in feminist and socialist movements, in the Labor Party, in campaigns for Aboriginal rights and in the movement for world peace – in a long active career which spanned the years 1911–70.
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