‘For the good that we can do’: Cecilia downing and feminist christian citizenship

Smart, Judith

doi:10.1080/08164649.1994.9994724

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“…19 Judith Smart's discussion of the links between Cecilia Downing's religious and political views is telling. 20 President of the Housewives Association of Victoria and of the Federated Association of Australian Housewives in the 1930s and 1940s, she was an active member of the Baptist Church whose proud tradition of belief in the strength of individual conscience and the independence of church and state flowed into her political views, endorsing her suspicion of government intervention and regulation. This study also suggests varied and complex ways in which the public and private were interdependent.…”

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Sins of Omission? Women in the history of Australian religion and religion in the history of Australian women. A reply to Roger Thompson

O’Brien

1997

Australian Historical Studies

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Section: Anne O'brienmentioning

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Sins of Omission? Women in the history of Australian religion and religion in the history of Australian women. A reply to Roger Thompson

O’Brien

1997

Australian Historical Studies

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“…Many mothers with talent, luck, money or desire, had second careers after their children became independent; most nineteenth-century WCTU suffrage activists were older mothers, and in the twentieth century, women like Cecilia Downing, President of the Housewives Association, began her public life in her mid-fifties. [59] But the majority of women did not follow such paths. The defensiveness and exclusivity we see in Mothers' Union women perhaps reflects their own frustration and exclusion from wider pursuits.…”

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Militant mothers: faith, power and identity in the mothers' Union in Sydney, 1896-1950

O’Brien

2000

Women's History Review

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Women's religious organisations can provide insights into the experiences of women usually hidden from historical view within marriage and motherhood. The Mothers' Union, the centrally organised association of Anglican women, was an unusual women's organisation because its chief function was not fund-raising but the "spiritual elevation" of mothers. Examination of its history in Sydney over the first half of the twentieth century reveals how "ordinary" mothers gained identity through membership - indirectly at the expense of other women - and reflects the ambivalent status of mothers in one twentieth-century Western city.

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Quality control: The origins of the Australian Consumers' Association

McLeod

2008

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The Australian Consumers' Association (ACA) was formed in 1959 in response to increasing market competition, falling product standards and mass manipulation by marketers. Despite being the first, largest and most influential consumer organization in Australia, the Association and the origin of the Australian consumer movement have been little studied. From its inception, the ACA acted as mass production's quality controller, directing its fire against the mass marketing methods that obscured rational consumer choice. But rather than rejecting the dual principles of mass production and mass consumption, the ACA sought to reform the system by equipping rational, informed consumers with independent, scientific information about products.Australian Consumers' Association, advertising, business, consumer, consumer affairs, consumerism, consumer protection, demand management, marketing, market research,

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‘For the good that we can do’: Cecilia downing and feminist christian citizenship

Cited by 8 publications

References 9 publications

Sins of Omission? Women in the history of Australian religion and religion in the history of Australian women. A reply to Roger Thompson

Sins of Omission? Women in the history of Australian religion and religion in the history of Australian women. A reply to Roger Thompson

Militant mothers: faith, power and identity in the mothers' Union in Sydney, 1896-1950

Quality control: The origins of the Australian Consumers' Association

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