Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1969-1995 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
37 boxes (Offsite Storage)
Context area
Name of creator
Administrative history
Women's Community Aid Association (1973-).
Objectives - To establish a women's centre in Brisbane to provide education programmes and resources aimed at changing the sexist nature of society and to provide support and help for women with immediate problems including educational, legal, health, information and counselling services.
Publicists - J. Abbs, Gill Calvert, Jane Calvert, Jennie Harvie, Ruth Matchett, Barbara Wertheim.
Notes: The Association was responsible for the establishment of Women's House in 1973. The Women's Community Aid Association was a Brisbane-based feminist organisation founded in 1974 to advocate and agitate for women's rights, and provide health, counselling and other services to women in Brisbane.
Name of creator
Administrative history
Women's House (Brisbane, Qld) (1973-).
Objectives - To provide a viable alternative for women by offering information and support in areas including housing, the law, health, supporting mothers, battered wives, employment, rape.
Publicists - Jackie Ashton, Marie Crisp, Rae Kempis, Carole Lowe, Judy McVey, Diane Mangan, Carolyn Mason, Joan Ross, Lou Rozensteins, Pam Woodward.
Notes: Formed by The Women's Community Aid Association (itself formed in 1973). Incorporated or associated with Women's Health Centre, Women's Shelta, Rape Crisis Centre, Women's Library, Women's Media Group Such connections have varied Women's House was originally located at Red Hill. It moved to Roma Street In 1976 the withdrawal of Commonwealth funding (received through the State Government) led to the relocation of Women's House from Roma Street to Spring Hill. It is now in West End.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Records, 1969-1995
Collection alternatively titled as: Women's Communitiy Aid Association Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Records of the Women's Community Aid Association and Brisbane Women's House, and publications and ephemera relating to the women's movement and other political causes in Queensland in the 1970s and 80s.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
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Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access, except for Restricted access to Box 15 Item 7 which is restricted until the end of 2029.
Conditions governing reproduction
In copyright. Can be reproduced for personal research and study. For other uses see About copyright. Please attribute the Fryer Library.
Language of material
- English
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Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
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Publication note
Material from this collection has been cited in:
Barrett Meyering I (2019) ‘The Margaret Bailey case : High school activism, the right to education and modern citizenship in late 1960s Australia’, History of Education Review, 48(2):183–197, doi:10.1108/HER-05-2019-0014.
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Name access points
- Women's Community Aid Association (Subject)
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Status
Revised
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, AM, 14 Feb 2023. Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.
Revised, JR, 1 Mar 2924.