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May 10, 2023

Content warning: this episode contains mild coarse language.

 

The “women’s pages” were a blessing and a curse for opportunities.  The biggest irony was that the women writing this stuff were working mums whose lives were almost completely opposite to those of their readership.  Host: Amy Remeikis. Historian: Dr Patricia Clarke. Guest: Mia Freedman.

 

The Fijian folk music used in this episode is courtesy of the 

David Fanshawe World Music Archive (1967 - 94)

Song: Vakamalolo - Sitting Dance (Fiji)

Discover more here: https://fanshawemusic.com/

 

Further Reading and References

Articles by Stella Allan trove.nla.gov.au/collection/bold-types/newspapers/explore?l-pubtag=Stella%20Allan

Articles by Jennie Scott-Griffiths  trove.nla.gov.au/collection/bold-types/newspapers/explore?l-pubtag=Jennie%20Scott%20Griffiths

Jennie Scott-Griffiths, The Australian Woman’s Weekly, 18 September 1915, p.13

Jennie Scott-Griffiths, ‘What Women Demand’, The Australian Worker, 30 November 1916, p7 trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/145764010

Stella Allan, ‘Lyttelton Times engaged Dominion’s first woman political reporter’, Christchurch Stan-Sun, 16 October 1958, p2