Jessie Street: A Revised AutobiographyFederation Press, 2004 - 246 páginas Jessie Street was a key figure in Australian political life for over 50 years. She was the only Australian woman delegate at the founding of the United Nations in 1945; the initiator of the 1967 "Aboriginal" amendment of the Australian Constitution; the colleague of Pablo Picasso on the World Peace Council Executive; and a controversial promoter of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, known as "Red Jessie" to a generation of Australians. She led an extraordinary, vivid life. Her autobiography, written with candour and humour, is a guidebook to the 20th century. From Jessie's early life in the Australian bush, readers join suffragette marches in London; hear civil rights singers in the jazz clubs of New York; visit occupied Egypt, imperial India, outback Australia, Stalin's Moscow; witness the Anschluss and Sudetenland crises in Europe in 1938; and see the destroyed cities of London, Berlin, Leningrad, and Hiroshima after the Second World War. Her life was one dedicated to peace and justice. The daughter-in-law, wife and mother of three Chief Justices, she met and worked with extraordinary figures such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Nancy Astor, Margaret Sanger, Jawaharal Nehru and many others. Her autobiography, first published in 1966, is now reissued, corrected and edited, a sparkling, powerful, bright book that truly reflects Jessie Street's energy, charm and practical humanitarianism. |
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... knew of the life and work of this extraordinary woman . A ' mighty fighter for the rights of women ' , Jessie Street was the only Australian woman delegate at the founding of the United Nations in 1945 and in 1967 became the only woman ...
... knew of the life and work of this extraordinary woman . A ' mighty fighter for the rights of women ' , Jessie Street was the only Australian woman delegate at the founding of the United Nations in 1945 and in 1967 became the only woman ...
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... knew was forbidden . - In truth I enjoyed the company of the workers a lot more than that of the various visitors who stayed at Yulgilbar . They knew little about the things I cared about - and the men were patronisingly amused at my ...
... knew was forbidden . - In truth I enjoyed the company of the workers a lot more than that of the various visitors who stayed at Yulgilbar . They knew little about the things I cared about - and the men were patronisingly amused at my ...
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... knew where calves came from and how they were born , but my constant question around the age of 12 was - what makes them start growing ? My mother , the governess , the maids , and the stockmen all gave evasive replies . One day out ...
... knew where calves came from and how they were born , but my constant question around the age of 12 was - what makes them start growing ? My mother , the governess , the maids , and the stockmen all gave evasive replies . One day out ...
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... knew where the chase was to end . This was always at some country pub or tea - room some miles away . About half an hour later the rest of the House , the ' hounds ' , would start to pick up the trail . We would go through woods and ...
... knew where the chase was to end . This was always at some country pub or tea - room some miles away . About half an hour later the rest of the House , the ' hounds ' , would start to pick up the trail . We would go through woods and ...
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... knew it was going to be rather a smart affair . I took my outfit to the sports ground in my attache case , with my hat in a paper bag . As soon as the game was over I washed and jumped into a hansom cab , shut the doors and pulled down ...
... knew it was going to be rather a smart affair . I took my outfit to the sports ground in my attache case , with my hat in a paper bag . As soon as the game was over I washed and jumped into a hansom cab , shut the doors and pulled down ...
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Jessie Lillingston in New York 1915 | 47 |
Jessie Street at home 1943 | 135 |
Jessie Street with team examining Australian sheepskins 1943 | 146 |
Jessie Street United Associations of Women colleagues 1943 | 153 |
Our great ally A Pacific war A bid for Parliament | 154 |
Delegates to the Womans Charter Conference Sydney 1943 | 171 |
Australian delegates to the UN founding conference San Francisco 1945 | 179 |
Jessie Street with Dr Bertha Lutz San Francisco 1945 | 186 |
Waltzing Matilda | 187 |
International women Votes for women At Waverley House | 49 |
Jessie Kenneth Street with children Belinda Philippa and Roger 1924 | 61 |
Seeing the World | 71 |
Charles Lillingston and Jessie Street Switzerland 1930 | 76 |
Laurence Street and Nurse Musgrave about 1935 | 83 |
The Palais des Nations Geneva 1930 | 97 |
Voyaging Depression At home At work Nurses | 100 |
Jessie Street 1938 | 117 |
Friends and Enemies | 133 |
Jessie Street in the USSR 1945 | 205 |
Vijay Lakshmi Pandit Jessie Street New York 1945 | 215 |
Seeing the States London lights Berlin bereaved | 217 |
Officials at the World Peace Council Conference in East Berlin 1952 | 222 |
Jessie Street in China in 1958 | 228 |
Jessie Street in Australias outback 1957 | 234 |
Index | 239 |
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