Vida: The Radical Life of Vida Goldstein by Jacqueline Kent (English) Paperback

Description: Vida by Jacqueline Kent Blazing her trail at the dawn of the twentieth century, Vida Goldstein remains Australias most celebrated crusader for the rights of women. Her life – as a campaigner for the suffrage in Australia, Britain and America, an advocate for peace, a fighter for social equality and a shrewd political commentator – marks her as one of Australias foremost women of courage and principle.Vida first came to national prominence as the first woman in the Western world to stand for a national Parliament, in Victoria, for the Senate, in 1903. As a fighter for equal rights for women, and as a champion of social justice, she quickly established a pattern of working quietly against mens control of Australian society. Her work for the peace movement and against conscription during the heightened emotions of the First World War showed her determination to defy governments in the name of fairness and equity.Vida came to adulthood when Australia was in the process of inventing itself as a new nation, one in which women might have opportunities equal to those of men. Her work for her own sex, especially her battles for equality in politics, illuminated issues that persist to this day FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Jacqueline Kent was born in Sydney and grew up there and in Adelaide. Originally trained as a journalist and broadcaster, she has also been a book editor and a reviewer for numerous publications, and has a Doctorate of Creative Arts from the University of Technology, Sydney. As well as biography and general social history, she has written fiction for young adults. A Certain Style- Beatrice Davis, A Literary Life won the 2002 National Biography Award and the Nita B. Kibble Award. An Exacting Heart- The Story of Hephzibah Menuhin won the 2009 Nita B. Kibble Award. She lives in Sydney. Promotional Vida Goldstein was an advocate for womens rights, a campaigner for peace, fought for the distribution of wealth, and a trail-blazer who provided leadership and inspiration to innumerable people. Promotional "Headline" Vida Goldstein was an advocate for womens rights, a campaigner for peace, fought for the distribution of wealth, and a trail-blazer who provided leadership and inspiration to innumerable people. Description for Reader Vida Jane Mary Goldstein, feminist and suffragist, was born at Portland, Victoria. Her father was an anti-suffragist, but Jacob Goldstein supported his daughters to be economically and intellectually independent. Vidas with her mother collected signatures for the huge Woman Suffrage Petition. In the 1890s she became involved in various social welfare activities and attended Victorian parliamentary sessions where she learned procedure while campaigning for a wide variety of reformist legislation. In 1899 she lead the radical womens movement in Victoria, and that year made her first public-speaking appearance to advocate the vote for woman. In 1902 she travelled to the United States of America to speak at the International Woman Suffrage Conference, was elected secretary, gave evidence in favour of woman suffrage to a committee of the United States Congress and attended the International Council of Women Conference. Australian women had been granted the Federal vote in 1902 and on her return from America she was one of four women who were the first in the British Empire to be nominated and to stand for election to a national parliament when she campaigned as an Independent candidate for the Senate in 1903. Through the newspaper she founded and edited, Womans Sphere, and by lecture tours around Victoria, she campaigned untiringly for the State suffrage which was won in 1908. Vida returned to national politics and made four more attempts to gain election to Federal parliament- always as an Independent Woman Candidate. She was outspokenly opposed to capitalism, supporting production for use not profit, and public control of public utilities. In August 1909 Vida launched her second newspaper, the weekly Woman Voter, of which she was owner-editor. Vida Goldstein was the only Australian woman suffragist to gain an international reputation. In February 1911 she visited England at the invitation of the Womens Social and Political Union and her speeches drew huge crowds. During World War I Vida was uncompromisingly pacifist. She became chairman of the Peace Alliance, formed the Womens Peace Army in 1915, and was involved in much valuable social work including the organization of a womens unemployment bureau. Details ISBN0670079499 Author Jacqueline Kent Pages 384 Publisher Penguin Books Australia Year 2020 ISBN-10 0670079499 ISBN-13 9780670079490 Format Paperback Publication Date 2020-09-15 Imprint Viking Australia Place of Publication Hawthorn Country of Publication Australia Subtitle The Radical Life of Vida Goldstein Short Title Vida Language English AU Release Date 2020-09-15 NZ Release Date 2020-09-15 Narrator Tom Judd Illustrator R.H. Lazzell Edited by Tore Rem Birth 1939 Affiliation Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Bipolar Clinic and Reseach Program, Massachusetts General Hospital Position Associate Professor of Psychiatry Qualifications PsyD Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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