Collection
Women's Museum of Australia Research Library
You’ll be amazed at the stories we hold…
The Women’s Museum of Australia has a reference library of books, videos and audio cassettes relating to Australian women’s history.
We welcome research projects and encourage research proposals.
For access, please contact the curator at curator@pioneerwomen.com.au for an appointment.
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CWA Cookery Book of Household Hints (1978)
Author: Various
Published: in 1978 by ES Wigg & Son
Subject: 33rd edition Recipes cookery
Format: Book
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Daisy Bates in the Desert (1994)
Author: Julia Blackburn
Published: in 1994 by Minerva
Subject: Life of Daisy Bates; Pioneer
Format: Book
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Daisy Bates: The Great White Queen of the Never Never (1971)
Author: Elizabeth Salter
Published: in 1971 by Angus & Robertson
Dewey No.: 994.040
Subject: Ethnology. Social work with minorities. Public welfare. Social workers. Women. Biography. Ceremonies. Initiation. Aboriginal Australians. Aborigines Bates, Daisy May Western Australia
Format: Book
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Dale Spender - VHS 70 (2005)
Author: Dale Spender
Published: in 2005 by ABC
Subject: Feminist
Format: VHS
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Dame Edith Lyons: Among the Carrion Crows (1977)
Author: Edith Lyons (Dame)
Published: in 1977 by Rigby Ltd
Subject: Lyons.Dame Edith Muriel 1897 -
Format: Book
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Dame Nellie Melba - VHS 52 (2004)
Author: Dame Nellie Melba
Published: in 2004 by Australian's 1st Opera Singer Her Life, Death,& Funeral
Format: VHS
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Dame Rachel Cleland - VHS 13
Author: Rachel Cleland
Published: by SBS
Subject: Australian Biography
Format: VHS
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Dame Roma Mitchell - VHS 55 (2000)
Author: Dame Roma Mitchell
Published: in 2000
Subject: Lawyer- 1st woman QC of Auatralia 1962-chairman human rights commission 1981-chancellor UN of Adelaide 1983-Govenor Australia 1991 C>man Winston Churchill Trust
Format: VHS
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Damned Whores and God's Police: The Colonization of Women in Australia (1975)
Author: Anne Summers
Published: in 1975 by Penguin Books
Dewey No.: 301412
Subject: convicts, morals
Format: Book
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Dancing With The Devil: A Memoir (2005)
Author: Amy Norman
Published: in 2005 by Transworld Random House
Dewey No.: 362 8292092
Subject: mem. abused Women NSW Narcotics-spouses; social/victims
Format: Book
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Dangerius When Wet
Author:
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Dangerous When Wet: The Shelley Taylor-Smith Story (1996)
Author: Shelley Taylor-Smith
Published: in 1996 by Allen & Unwin
Dewey No.: 797.210
Subject: bio Shelley Taylor-Smith Story; sport. women, swimming, marathon, long distance
Format: Book
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Daughters of Freedom: A History of Women in the Australian Church (1997)
Author: Janet West
Published: in 1997 by Albatross Books
Dewey No.: 270 082
Subject: 1.Women in Christianity etc, clergy wives, R.C. orders, non catholic orders, missionaries, ordination, religion
Format: Book
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Dawn Fraser - VHS 31 (2001)
Author: Dawn Fraser
Published: in 2001
Subject: 2000 olympics Raelene Boyle,Betty Cuthbert,Shirley Strickland,Shane Gould,Cathy Freeman,Debbie Flintoff King -SPORT
Format: VHS
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Dawn Fraser - VHS 32
Author: Dawn Fraser
Subject: This is your Life; Sport-swimming
Format: VHS
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Dawn: One Hell of a Life (2001)
Author: Dawn Fraser
Published: in 2001 by Hodder
Dewey No.: 797.210
Subject: Biography of Fraser, Dawn. Her achievements in swimming
Format: Book
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Dawn's Story: A Collection of Recipes, Pictures and Stories about Dawn Severin. She Made Curtin Springs a Home.
Author: Ashley Severin
Published: by Ashley Severin
Dewey No.: 641SEV
Subject: Dawn Severin 1927-1983, Pioneer, Curtin Springs station, recipes
Format: Book
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Dealing with a Changing Work Enviroment: The Issue of Sexual Harassment in the ADF (1994)
Author: Lois Bryson
Published: in 1994 by Directorate of Publishing Defence Centre
Dewey No.: 361.307
Subject: A report prepared for the Assistant Chief of Defence Force Personnel, Headquarters, Australian Defence Force presenting an overview of sexual harassment as a socila occurrence in the workforce and especially the ADF
Format: Book
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Dear Primitive (1957)
Author: Marjorie Gartrell
Published: in 1957 by Angus & Robertson
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Degrees of Liberation: A short history of women in the university of Melbourne (1985)
Author: Farley Kelly
Published: in 1985 by Women Graduates Centenary Comm, Univ of Melbourne
Subject: 1/University of Melbourne-Alumni-History.2/Women college graduates-Victoria-Melbourne -History education
Format: Book
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Della, the Drover: A Bushwoman's Own Story (1983)
Author: Della Edmonds
Published: in 1983 by Della Lenahan
Dewey No.: 919.43
Subject: Edmunds, Della. Stockmen, Ranches. Women pioneers, Biography. Frontier and pioneer life, Queensland. Country life, Rural women
Format: Book
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Desert Lake : Art, Science and Stories from Paruku (2013)
Author: Steve Morton (ed)
Published: in 2013 by CSIRO Publishing
Dewey No.: 759.994
Subject: Lake Gregory, W.A. Aboriginal art, Australia
Format: Book
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Desert School (1983)
Author: Neville Green
Published: in 1983 by Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Subject: school, education
Format: Book
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Developing Special Events & Festivals for 2000 & Beyond (1997)
Author: Rob & Associates Tonge
Published: in 1997 by Central Aust.Tourism Industry Assoc.
Dewey No.: 790
Subject: special events/festivals social
Format: Book
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Di Fingleton - VHS 29 (2005)
Author: Di Fingleton
Published: in 2005 by ABC Andrew Denton's Enough Rope
Subject: Lawyer/Magistrate 1st female Chief Magistrate in Qld
Format: VHS
