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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Australian Women Through 200 Years: 200 Years in Pictures (1992)
Author: Margaret Adamson
Published: in 1992 by Kangaroo Press
Dewey No.: 305.4099
Subject: pioneers
Format: Book
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Australian Women: New Feminist Perspectives (1986)
Author: Norma Grieve (ed)
Published: in 1986 by Oxford University Press
Dewey No.: 305.4
Subject: Feminism; Australia etc
Format: Book
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Australian Women: Feminist Perspectives (1981)
Author: Norma Grieve
Published: in 1981 by Oxford University Press
Dewey No.: 305 429 994
Subject: Australian women, social conditions, women's rights
Format: Book
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Australian Women's Weekly 70 Birthday - VHS 82 (2003)
Author:
Published: in 2003 by ABC This is your life
Subject: birthday ofAustralian woman's weekly
Format: VHS
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Australians at War: Key Dates & Data Since 1901 (1997)
Author: Richard Reid,Dr
Published: in 1997 by C'wealth Dept of Veterans' Affairs
Dewey No.: 355.0094
Subject: War
Format: Book
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Autoboigraphy of My Mother (1986)
Author: Meg Stewart
Published: in 1986 by Penguin Books
Dewey No.: 759.994
Subject: Coen,Margaret.1913 - ; Women Painters-Australia-Biography
Format: Book
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Aviatrix (1981)
Author: Elinor Smith
Published: in 1981 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc
Dewey No.: 0629 0294
Subject: Auto B.
Format: Book
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Baked Beans in the Outback & Curry in Kashmir (1999)
Author: Mary Taylor
Published: in 1999 by West Enterprises
Dewey No.: 919.4
Subject: Taylor, Mary. Women. Australia. Description and travel.
Format: Book
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Barbara Baynton: Between two worlds, a biography (1989)
Author: Penne Hackforth-Jones
Published: in 1989 by Penguin Books
Dewey No.: 823.2
Subject: Baynton,Barbara, 1857-1929 ; Biography
Format: Book
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Barking Dogs: Stories and Poems for Radio by Central Australian Writers (1995)
Author: Various
Published: in 1995 by Barking Dogs Collective
Dewey No.: 828.3
Subject: stories and Poems for radio
Format: Book
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Barossa Women : A Heart-Warming Family Saga Set In The Barossa Valley (1988)
Author: Margaret Stiller
Published: in 1988 by Tiltili Books
Dewey No.: 823.3
Subject: Darwin (N.T.). Fiction. Northern Territory. Barossa Valley (S.A.). Social life and customs
Format: Book
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Be Beautiful (1940)
Author: Jean Cleland
Published: in 1940 by Consolidated Press
Dewey No.: 391
Subject: self improvement, Beauty Tips
Format: Book
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Beating About The Bush (1963)
Author: Sarah Mussen
Published: in 1963 by Jarrolds
Dewey No.: 919.4
Subject: autobiography-travels in the southern hemisphere. Description and travel. Australia. New Zealand. Pictorial works.
Format: Book
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Becoming A Top Woman Manager (1988)
Author: Leonie Still
Published: in 1988 by Allen & Unwin
Dewey No.: 658.409
Subject: Advice for women achieving management status
Format: Book
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Beds I Have Slept In and Other Stories (not stated)
Author: Marjorie Gook
Published: in not stated by appears self-published
Dewey No.: 823
Subject: Marjorie is the last WW1 veteran widow in the Northern Territory - and at 93 she's got some great stories to tell about her husband's life and her own
Format: Book
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Before The White Man (1974)
Author: J. Peter White
Published: in 1974 by Reader's Digest Services
Dewey No.: 994.004
Subject: Aboriginal Life in Prehistoric Cultural processes. Social life and customs. Art. Rock art. Technology Tools. Civilization. Aboriginal Australians Antiquities.
Format: Book
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Before Their Footsteps Fade Forever (2014)
Author: Greg and Chris Darcy
Published: in 2014 by Forgotten Books
Dewey No.: 823.8
Subject: Personal history of ancestors who traveled from Ireland to outback Queensland. A history of social life and customs in the 19th century
Format: Book
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Beginnings: The First Decade of the Northern Territory Women's Advisory Council 1983-1993 (1994)
Author: Mickey Dewar
Published: in 1994 by NT Women's Advisory Council
Dewey No.: 360
Subject: NT Women
Format: Book
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Behind the Wall: The Women of the Destitute Asylum Adelaide 1852-1918 (1994)
Author: Mary Geyer
Published: in 1994 by Axiom Publishers
Dewey No.: 305.569
Subject: women destitute
Format: Book
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Being Australian Women: Belonging, Citizenship and Identity (2000)
Author: Cheryl Lange (ed)
Published: in 2000 by Univ of WA., Dept of History
Dewey No.: 305409941
Subject: Australian Citizens
Format: Book
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Berna Madill (1991)
Author:
Published: in 1991
Dewey No.: 920
Subject: Berna Madill
Format: Sound Recording
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Beryl Beaurepaire (1999)
Author: Michael McKernan
Published: in 1999 by Queensland University Press
Subject: founder national women's council, Politics
Format: Book
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Better than Dancing: The Wandering Years of a Young Australian, Mary Brennan (1987)
Author: Elaine McKenna
Published: in 1987 by Greenhouse
Dewey No.: 920.720
Subject: Brennan, Mary. Women household employees. Women domestics. Women. World War, 1914-1918 Great Britain. Women household employees. Biography. Social conditions. Australia. Great Britain.
Format: Book
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Between the Dances (2015)
Author: Jacqueline Dinan
Published: in 2015 by Jane Curry Publishing
Dewey No.: 940.530
Subject: The changes in women's lives brought about by WWII. Women struggled with gender stereotypes in nursing, farmhands, munition workers ad in the defence forces. New opportunities for women and social liberation. Respite from war at weekly dances
Format: Book
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Between Two Worlds (1995)
Author: Rowena MacDonald
Published: in 1995 by IAD Press
Dewey No.: 36270899915
Subject: Stolen Generation
Format: Book
