Name/TitleMaking herstory : voices of the Thwaites and Fitzpatrick women across time and place
MakerDowney, Helen
Maker RoleAuthor
MakerSecen, Lorraine
Maker RoleAuthor
About this objectSpanning two centuries, Making Herstory is a unique window into the raw pioneer existence of Mary Ann Thwaites, her daughter Ethel, who grew up in the 1870s Victorian town of Queenscliff, and her granddaughter Theodora, who conquered the men's domain of the Tasmanian wilderness in the late 1930s. Alive with twists and connections, we wonder what Theo's outspoken mother, Ethel, is hiding. Unravelling her secret brings an understanding of why her daughter took to hiking, mountaineering and skiing in Tasmania, never returning to seaside Queenscliff, where one of the most scenic and historically significant places was Thwaites Walk, named for the Thwaites men - Theo's grandfather, uncles and cousins. his is a significant herstory. The voices of these women speak to us through letters, diaries, stories, newspapers and magazines, reverberating across time and changing with each location, adding to the often dismissed, but important, wealth of recorded female experience.
Contents
ch. 1. Mary Ann and Ethel : there were women on the piers
ch. 2. Ethel : living in Queenscliff when feminism was a luxury
ch. 3. Ethel : silencing fish wives - women can't sing, paint, write or think
ch. 4. Ethel : tyranny and humiliation in Fitzpatrick's bakery
ch. 5. Theo : adolescence on the Bellarine Peninsula
ch. 6. Ethel : in her wildest dreams, she never imagined Theo's independence
ch. 7. Theo : women climbing Cradle
ch. 8. Theo : independence and freedom, roaming on a bicycle
ch. 9. Ethel : rejecting the submissive role patriarchy reserved for her
ch. 10. Theo and Ethel : WWII and the composing genius of Bach and Sutherland
ch. 11. Theo : diverse WWII recreational and cultural pastimes for women
ch. 12. Ethel : economic independence for all women
ch. 13. Theodora, Nancy and Rosaline : there were women on the peaks!
ch. 14. Theo : history required the invisibility of women
ch. 15. Ethel and Theo : women's experiences matter
ch. 16. Theo : married on Friday, trapped in the kitchen on Monday
ch. 17. Mary Ann, Ethel and Theo : lost herstories cannot be plucked out of thin air.
PublisherMelbourne Books
Publication Date2014
Publication PlaceMelbourne, Vic.
Subject and Association KeywordsThwaites, Mary Ann, 1837-1913.
Subject and Association KeywordsWomen
Subject and Association KeywordsPioneers
Subject and Association KeywordsFitzpatrick Thwaites, Ethel, 1875-1958.
Subject and Association KeywordsLetters (Correspondence)
Subject and Association KeywordsQueenscliff (Vic.)
Subject and Association KeywordsHiking
Named CollectionLibrary
Object TypeBook
Object numberLIB 045555
Spine Label305.4 THW DOW
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved