PROLOGUE

2. THE WAR

3. THE WAR - WOMEN’S PART

4. LET US REASON TOGETHER

5. VIDA GOLDSTEIN

6. THE WOMEN’S POLITICAL ASSOCIATION

7. THEY WORKED OUT THEIR POSITION

8. THEY DEVELOPED THEIR RESPONSE

9. THEY FOUGHT FOR CIVIL LIBERTY

10. A FIGHT LED BY A WOMAN

11. 'I DIDN'T RAISE MY SON TO BE A SOLDIER'

12. THEY OPPOSED WHITE AUSTRALIA

13. WARRING AGAINST WAR - SUPPORTING SOLDIERS

14. THE WPA DEMANDED
TERMS OF PEACE BE DECLARED
AND SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE

15. THE WPA WAS FEMINIST

16. THE WPA PROTESTED AGAINST UNEMPLOYMENT

17. THE WPA PROTESTED AGAINST THE COST OF LIVING

18. WINNERS AND LOSERS

19. THE WOMEN’S PEACE ARMY

20. WOMEN'S PEACE ARMY RESOLUTIONS

21. THE WPA ESTABLISHED AND RAN A WOMEN’S UNEMPLOYMENT BUREAU

22. THE WPA ESTABLISHED AND RAN A WOMEN’S FARMING CO-OPERATIVE

23. 'AS GOOD AS A MAN'

24. THE WPA ESTABLISHED AND RAN A WORKERS' COMMUNE

25. THE WPA GREW BEYOND VICTORIA

26. THE WPA OPPOSED CONSCRIPTION

27. WOMEN'S PEACE ARMY LEAFLETS

28. 80,000 PEOPLE ON YARRA BANK

29. PRESS, PULPIT AND PURSE

30. A CONSTRUCTIVE PEACE

31. WOMEN’S TERMS OF PEACE

32. PEACE IN HONOUR’S CAUSE

33. WHOSE PEACE?

34. THE ARMISTICE IS NOT PEACE

35. 1919 THE WPA EXPOSED THE BLOCKADE

36. HYPOCRISY

37. THE WORLD IS SICK UNTO DEATH

38. THE WPA SENT TWO REPRESENTATIVES TO THE 1919 WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR PERMANENT PEACE AT ZURICH

39. THE WPA DENOUNCED THE VERSAILLES PEACE TREATY

40. THE WPA REPORTED THE WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS

41. THE OLD ORDER HAS NOT CHANGED

42. HERE, IN AUSTRALIA

43. THE END?

44. STRANDED IN LONDON

45. ANZAC - THE SISTERHOOD FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE (1915-1919)

46. ANZAC - THE WOMEN’S POLITICAL ASSOCIATION

47. AN ANZAC SERMON

48. THE ‘WRONGS UNDER WHICH THEIR COMRADES HAD LIVED’

49. THE WOMEN?

50. ANOTHER WAR

 

FIRST WORLD WAR WOMEN

working for peace in Melbourne 1914-1919

PROLOGUE === 2. === 4. LET US REASON TOGETHER

 

3. THE WAR - WOMEN’S PART

Woman Voter 11 August 1914:

Shall the mothers of the world rejoice? Shall they

not rather weep?

 

The reports from Europe which reach us lead us to

suppose that Britain has been victorious over the

German arms.

 

25,000 German casualties have been reported,

though it is denied that there has yet been a naval

engagement of importance.

 

The press asks us to rejoice over these victories

over the 25,000 who have paid the price of human

hate and human greed.

 

We cannot rejoice in the victory without, at the

same time, applauding the carnage.

 

We must pay the price of victory with death.

 

The thunder of shot and shell, the shouts of

victory cannot drown, in women's ears, the voices

of mothers weeping for their sons, the wailing of

children left fatherless in a stricken country.

 

Not all the bands and banners, not all the patriotic

demonstrations, or the pride of conquest can

make us forget that every man who lies dead on

the field of battle, or mutilated and dying in the

hospitals, represents for his father and mother

their pain, love, toil and care, and their humanity -

the hope and promise of the future.

Woman Voter 11 August 1914 State Library of Victoria

 

Bathing, 1899, Frances Edgar Masterton Vallance,
State Library of Victoria

=== 4. LET US REASON TOGETHER ===