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Review: Travelling to Tomorrow: The Modern Women Who Sparked Australia’s
Romance with America – Yves Rees (NewSouth)
Why would early 20th-century Australian women travel across the Pacific to the
United States? And if they left, why wouldn’t they go to England, the “mother
country”, where there was a proper cup of tea? The US was no feminist utopia.
It did not give federal voting rights to women until 1920 – 18 years after
Australia.
The ten Australian women Yves Rees profiles in
Travelling to Tomorrow: The
Modern Women who Sparked Australia’s Romance with America felt differently.
For good reason. Australia, Rees writes, gave women the vote, but it gave them
little power or influence to achieve their dreams outside the home.
These ten women recognised Australia’s rusted-on resistance to their ambition
and voted optimistically, fantastically, for a life in the US. Their success
stateside shows that, in the early 20th century, the US was more open to women
progressing professionally than the struggles of suffragettes suggested."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
