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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: This is How We Forget to Remember -- In This Book -- Definitions of Some Terms -- Some Narratives -- Section 1: A Movement of Women -- 2. The Rising of the Women -- The Indecency of Feminism -- Sources of Feminism -- An Insurrection of Instruction -- The New Woman, the Australian Girl and Her Desires -- 3. Women in Movement -- Conflict and Cohesion: Rose Scott and the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales -- The Goals of the Woman Movement -- Desires and Visions: Difference and Equality -- Section 2: The Woman Movement's Issues -- 4. Sex -- Hydraulic Male Sexuality and Some Hesitations at the Heart of Masculinity -- Feminists and Sex: The Personal and the Political -- The First Sexual Revolution in Settler-Australia -- 5. Work -- Alternatives to Marriage: Women Winning Their Own Livelihoods -- Old Men, New Men and a New Nation: Masculinist Reaction -- Re-Constructing Separate Spheres -- 6. Citizenship -- What We Will Do With the Vote -- Votes for Women -- Women in Parliament? -- Section 3: The Ends of the Woman Movement -- 7. In Conclusion -- Passages -- A Parable -- New Directions -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Numerous books have been written about American feminism and its influence on education and society. But none have recognized the key role played by Irish American women in exposing injustice and protecting their rights. Certainly their literary heritage, inherent knowledge of English, and membership in the single largest ethnic group gave them an advantage. But their dual positions as colonized, second-class citizens of their country and their religion gave them their political edge, a trait that has been evident since the Irish first stepped off the boat and that continues to this day. This essay focuses on the first wave of these feminist messages by introducing Irish American writers and activists who emerged between the 1830s and 1960s. It locates Irish American women's influence in three different, yet overlapping milieus—political activism, journalism, and literature.

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