Reading List

Bomford, Janette M. (1993), That Dangerous and Persuasive Woman: Vida Goldstein, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne
Chesterman, John and Galligan, Brian, (1997) Citizens Without Rights, Aborigines and Australian Citizenship, Cambridge, Melbourne, Cambridge University Press.
Grimshaw, Patricia (1999), ‘Colonising Motherhood: evangelical social reformers and Koorie women in Victoria, Australia, 1880s to the early 1900s’, Women’s History Review, 8 (2)
Hirst, John (2002), Australia’s Democracy: A Short History, Allen & Unwin, Sydney
Irving Helen (1996) (ed.), A Woman's Constitution?, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney
Lake, Marilyn (1999), Getting Equal: The History of Australian Feminism, Allen & Unwin, Sydney
Lees, Kirsten (1995), Votes for Women: The Australian Story, Allen & Unwin, Sydney
Oldfield, Audrey (1992), Woman Suffrage in Australia: A Gift or a Struggle? Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Oldfield, A (1994), Australian Women and the Vote, Cambridge, Cambridge
Sawer, Marian (ed.) (2001), Elections: Full, Free & Fair, The Federation Press, Sydney
Sawer Marian & Simms Marian (1993), A Woman's Place: Women and Politics in Australia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney
Sawer, Marian (1992), Housekeeping the State: Women and Parliamentary Politics in Australia (PDF 79kb)
Searle, Betty (1988), Silk & Calico: Class, Gender and the Vote, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney
Summers Anne (2002), Damned Whores and God's Police, Penguin, Melbourne
Teale, Ruth (ed.) (1978), Colonial Eve: Sources of Women in Australia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne
The University of Melbourne Archives (2007), They are but Women: The Road to Female Suffrage in Victoria, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Wright, Raymond (1992), A People’s Counsel: A History of the Parliament of Victoria 1856-1990, Oxford University Press, Melbourne