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Provincial fellow traveller.(Jessie Street: A Revised Autobiography)(book)(Book Review)
Jessie Street: A Revised Autobiography, edited by Lenore Coltheart; Federation Press, 2004, $30.
JESSIE STREET is a marker in the ground for Australian "progressives". Uncritical admirers only welcome; sceptics need not apply. All that is expected is applause for Jessie as a great Australian feminist and campaigner for Aboriginal rights, and to leave it at that. But Jessie Street was to feminism and Aborigines what Don Bradman was to Adelaide stockbroking: a player whose claim to fame lay elsewhere. In Jessie's case it was her bizarre love affair with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union, an unpleasant fact usually ignored or totally discounted by her legion of ...
- Jessie Street: a Revised Autobiography.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History Quartly, Marian March 1, 2005 700+ words
Jessie Street: A Revised Autobiography. Edited...originally envisaged as the first volume of Jessie Street's autobiography, Truth or Repose...editing was not their strong suit. Jessie Street was seventy-seven years of age in...
- Citizens of the world: Jessie Street and international feminism.(Biography)
- Magazine article from: Hecate Coltheart, Lenore May 1, 2005 700+ words
Jessie Street took part in her first international...transnationalism In 1889, the year Jessie Street was born in India, the World Woman...another characteristic that connects Jessie Street to these pioneer networking women...
- The Jessie Street National Women's Library.
- News wire article from: Australasian Business Intelligence March 13, 2002 700+ words
...2002 (Australian Library News ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Jessie Street National Women's Library is housed in the Sydney Town hall...grants from the city and the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts. JESSIE STREET NATIONAL WOMEN'S LIBRARY: CITY OF SYDNEY: SYDNEY CITY...
- Political tourists; travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News November 1, 2009 700+ words
...1930s and 40s, the Soviet Union was the site of a great...they reacted to the Soviet Union have been plentiful...political tourism to the Soviet Union, with most focused...feminist activist Jessie Street, scientist Eric Ashby...
- Political Tourists: Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the...
- Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History Markwick, Roger D. September 1, 2009 700+ words
...Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s. Edited by Sheila...if not all the way with Stalin's Soviet Union. Of some 200 Australian travelers who went to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s, more than 12...
- Sheila Fitzpatrick and Carolyn Rasmussen (eds), Political Tourists: Travellers...
- Magazine article from: Labour History - A Journal of Labour and Social History Cummins, Ian May 1, 2009 700+ words
...Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s, Melbourne...Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China and Cuba (1981) or...old daughter Philippa that Jessie Street made the first of her several...
- U.S. agricultural leaders issue joint statement calling for most-favored-nation...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 1, 1990 700+ words
...FOR MOST-FAVORED-NATION STATUS FOR SOVIET UNION WASHINGTON, June 1 /PRNewswire...most-favored-nation status on the Soviet Union at the earliest possible time. In issuing...the press today, Block said: "The Soviet Union is our third largest agricultural customer...
- The wolf at the door. (Soviet Union asking for assistance from the...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) August 3, 1991 700+ words
The Soviet Union has long seen the IMF as a neo-imperialist...meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union applied to the International Monetary...the biggest opponent of granting the Soviet Union full membership. it argues that associate...
