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Box YMS MS 16791 BOX 8

 Container

Contains 13 Results:

Working Women's Coalition, 1972-1973

 File — Multiple containers
Scope and contents

Statements, newsletters, meeting minutes and political pamphlets for the Working Women's Coalition, Working Women's Group, Working Women's Committee and the Equal Pay Committee. Copies of the same and similar documents were received under two file names: "Working Women's Group" and "Women at Work Group". These have been grouped together in this file.

Dates: 1972-1973
Found in: Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library Victoria / MS 16791, Papers of Alva Geikie / Series 2: Women's groups and organisations

Rape Crisis Centre, 1973-1977

 File — Multiple containers
Scope and contents

This file includes fliers related to the Rape Crisis Centre's services; promotional material for a film about rape; material related to a campaign against rape, and an article about rape, written by Germain Greer. It also contains 2 prints (posters) with anti-rape messages.

Dates: 1973-1977
Found in: Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library Victoria / MS 16791, Papers of Alva Geikie / Series 2: Women's groups and organisations

Women in Education (Technical Teacher's Association), 1965-1978

 File — Multiple containers
Scope and contents This file contains 6 issues of Bluestocking (1977 to 1982), the main publication of the Australian Women's Education Coalition (AWEC). Included in the file are materials on sexist teaching conditions and sexism within the classroom. Most of these were developed by the Women in Education Group (WIEG), which was an offshoot of the Working Women's Coalition (WWC). The file also contains a 1975 issue of the Technical Teacher's Association of Victoria (TTAV) newspaper Associate News; minutes of a...
Dates: 1965-1978
Found in: Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library Victoria / MS 16791, Papers of Alva Geikie / Series 2: Women's groups and organisations

Political leaflets, 1969?-1974?

 File — Multiple containers
Dates: 1969?-1974?
Found in: Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library Victoria / MS 16791, Papers of Alva Geikie / Series 3 : Women's rights / Subseries 1 : Equal Pay

Lobbying materials, 1968-1975

 File — Multiple containers
Scope and contents

Letters, speeches, speech notes, and political leaflets gathered in the process of lobbying for the repeal of all abortion laws in Victoria. It includes debate notes; a transcript of an address given by Germaine Greer at the abortion debate at Sydney Town Hall on Thursday, March 2nd, 1972; a reply letter from the House of Representatives; circular letters; and flyers for protests and meetings.

Dates: 1968-1975
Found in: Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library Victoria / MS 16791, Papers of Alva Geikie / Series 3 : Women's rights / Subseries 2 : Abortion (Women's electoral lobby)

Application for financial assistance, 1974 November 12

 Item — Box: YMS MS 16791 BOX 8
Scope and contents

Letter from Kath Gleeson and Jo Gleeson on behalf of Vashti's Voice : A Women's Liberation Newspaper to The Secretariat for International Women's Year, Department of Special Minister for State and The Secretary of the Literature Board, Australia Council of the Arts.

Dates: 1974 November 12
Found in: Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library Victoria / MS 16791, Papers of Alva Geikie / Series 5 : Publications / Subseries 2 : Women's Liberation publications / Vashti's Voice

Vashti's Voice (Issues 1-8); 1 bulletin sheet, 1971-1975

 File — Box: YMS MS 16791 BOX 8
Dates: 1971-1975
Found in: Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library Victoria / MS 16791, Papers of Alva Geikie / Series 5 : Publications / Subseries 2 : Women's Liberation publications / Vashti's Voice

Vashti's Voice (Issues 9-13), 1974-1975

 File — Box: YMS MS 16791 BOX 8
Dates: 1974-1975
Found in: Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library Victoria / MS 16791, Papers of Alva Geikie / Series 5 : Publications / Subseries 2 : Women's Liberation publications / Vashti's Voice

Vashti's Voice (Issues 14-16), 1976

 File — Box: YMS MS 16791 BOX 8
Dates: 1976
Found in: Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library Victoria / MS 16791, Papers of Alva Geikie / Series 5 : Publications / Subseries 2 : Women's Liberation publications / Vashti's Voice

Vashti's Voice (Issues 17-18), 1976-1977

 File — Box: YMS MS 16791 BOX 8
Scope and contents

There are 2 copies of Issue 18.

Dates: 1976-1977
Found in: Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library Victoria / MS 16791, Papers of Alva Geikie / Series 5 : Publications / Subseries 2 : Women's Liberation publications / Vashti's Voice