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The Women's Federal Political Association, the foreunner of the Women's Political Association, was established in 1903, with Vida Goldstein as president, to educate women in political matters. Men were not excluded from membership. In March 1904 it changed its name to the Women's Political Association of Victoria with the aim of organising more efficiently women's votes in the interests of the home and children, of efficient government at all levels, and of improved social and industrial conditions. In an attempt to challenge the party ticket system, the WPA declared itself to be non party political and refused to affiliate with any political party, although its sympathies lay with the Australian Labor Party. Goldstein believed that party politics subsumed the interests of women. The WPA supported Goldstein in her attempts to be elected to the federal parliament and adopted a pacifist stance in World War One. It disbanded in 1919 when Goldstein travelled overseas.
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Book Sections
- Smart, Judith, 'The Great War and the 'scarlet scourge': Debates about venereal diseases in Melbourne during World War 1', in Judith Smart and Tony Wood (eds), An ANZAC Muster: War and Society in Australia and New Zealand 1914-18 and 1939-45: Selected Papers, Monash Publications in History, Dept. of History, Monash Universit, Melbourne, 1992, pp. (58)-85. [ Details... ]
Journals
- Goldstein, Vida (ed.), The Woman Voter, 1909-1919. [ Details... ]
Journal Articles
- Damousi, Joy, 'The Enthusiasms of Adela Pankhurst Walsh', Australian Historical Studies, vol. 25, no. 100, 1993, pp. 422-436. [ Details... ]
- Smart, Judith, 'Feminists, labour women and venereal disease in early twentieth century Melbourne', Australian Feminist Studies, no. 15, 1992, pp. 25-40. [ Details... ]
Theses
- Nicholls, Michelle, 'Women's Political Association (1903-1919): a study in militant feminism.', Hons thesis, La Trobe University, 1971. [ Details... ]
See also
- Bomford, Janette, 'The lady politician: Vida Goldstein's first Senate campaign', in Irving, Helen (ed.), A Woman's Constitution? Gender and History in the Australian Commonwealth, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1996, p. 179. [ Details... ]
- Bomford, Janette M., That dangerous and persuasive woman : Vida Goldstein, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic., 1993, 264 pp. [ Details... ]
- Cookson, Rachel, 'The role of certain women and women's organisations in politics in New South Wales and Victoria between 1900 and 1920.', MA thesis, University of Sydney, 1959. [ Details... ]
- Francis, Rosemary, 'Women in protest movements: the Women's Peace Army and the Save Our Sons Movement.', Hons thesis, The University of Melbourne, 1984. [ Details... ]
- Henderson, Leslie M. (Leslie Moira), The Goldstein Story, Stockland Press, Melbourne, 1973, 189 pp. [ Details... ]
- Smart, Judith, 'Jennie Baines: Suffrage and an Australian Connection', in June Purvis and Sandra Stanley Holton (eds), Votes for Women, Routledge, London/New York, 2000, pp. 246-266. [ Details... ]
- Sparrow, Jeff and Sparrow, Jill, Radical Melbourne : a secret history, the vulgar press, Carlton North, Vic., 2001, 223 pp. [ Details... ]
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