‘Bursting with new ideas’: Australian women professionals and American study tours, 1930–1960

Rees, Anne

doi:10.1080/14490854.2016.1202370

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“…By 1911, over half the Australians in Britain were women. Over the decades that followed, thousands travelled to the United States, where career‐minded white women found unparalleled opportunities for professional and educational advancement (Bishop, ; Pesman, ; Rees, , , ; Woollacott, , ). Significantly, this female travel was doubly avant‐garde.…”

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“…Travel was, in consequence, no longer an elite preserve. Middle‐class men and women still dominated passenger lists, but even unskilled workers were known to set sail with a pocketful of savings and hopes of finding work abroad (Loy‐Wilson, ; Rees, ). Australians also, increasingly, had time to be mobile.…”

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“…Formal equality at the ballot box could not dislodge an underlying masculinist culture that was a legacy of convictism and frontier violence (Lake, ). Women were not elected to federal parliament until 1943, and the feminisation of higher education and the professions lagged behind Britain and the United States (Rees, , 60–61). So dire were women's prospects that feminist historian Miriam Dixson would, in the 1970s, describe her predecessors as the ‘Doormats of the Western World’ (, 11).…”

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Reading Australian modernity: Unsettled settlers and cultures of mobility

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2017

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What did Australian modernity look like? Over the last two decades, Australia's entrenched reputation for ‘cultural belatedness’ has been displaced by the study of ‘colonial modernity’. No longer beholden to the idea that a singular modernity was disseminated from core to periphery, scholars now speak of many localised modernities that arose across colonial and provincial sites. According to this new ‘multiple modernities’ paradigm, Australia was home to its own home‐grown incarnation of modern life. But what was distinctively ‘Australian’ about Australian modernity? Although widely discussed in recent historiography, scholars have yet to delineate its distinguishing features. This article posits mobility as a central component of the Australian modern. Drawing upon new scholarship in settler colonial studies and transnational history, it argues that early twentieth‐century Australia was home to intense cultures of both domestic and global mobility that were entangled with the geographies and anxieties of the settler colonial project. It shows how the nation's ‘unsettled settlers’ also became its chief agents of modernity, and in doing so draws together several strands in recent historiography. Although mobility also signified modernity beyond Australia, it was within this settler colonial nation tyrannised by distance that the modern appetite for motion reached especial heights.

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Reading Australian modernity: Unsettled settlers and cultures of mobility

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2017

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“…Over the following decade, Whyte developed a rigorous professional program modelled on her Chicago alma mater, ensuring that future generations of Australian librarians would be trained in the US model. 78 During the decades before and after, Whyte's efforts were replicated across many fields, from dentistry to dance. In the process, Australia began to resemble an outpost of US empire decades before the 'turn to America' initiated by Canberra amid fears of Japanese invasion in 1941.…”

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