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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Trailblazers : 100 Inspiring South Australian Women
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'Australia's first female prime minister. The country's first female judge. The first woman to win the Archibald Prize for portraiture. Australia's first female chief diplomat. The nation's first female winemaker.

'These women were all trailblazers, but they have something else in common - every one of them was South Australian. And they are just a handful of the 100 remarkable women whose stories are told in this beautiful book, illustrated with hundreds of photographs.

'Written by historian Carolyn Collins and journalist Roy Eccleston, Trailblazers shines a light on the lives of these extraordinary women whose feats inspired their state, nation and, often enough, the world. Now they can inspire a whole new generation.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Kent Town, Norwood, Payneham & St Peters area, Adelaide - North / North East, Adelaide, South Australia,: Wakefield Press , 2019 .
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      Extent: 320p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 11th December 2019
      ISBN: 9781743056905

Works about this Work

In Her Own Name: A History of Women in South Australia from 1836; Trailblazers : 100 Inspiring South Australian Women Rachel Harris , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Lilith , January no. 27 2021; (p. 241-243)

— Review of In Her Own Name : A History of Women in South Australia from 1836 Helen Jones , 2020 multi chapter work biography ; Trailblazers : 100 Inspiring South Australian Women Carolyn Collins , Roy Eccleston , 2019 anthology biography

'South Australia is a state of firsts when it comes to women’s history. In 1881, the University of Adelaide was the first university in Australia to award women degrees and, in 1894, South Australia became the first Australian state to allow non-Indigenous women the right to vote. South Australian suffrage leader Catherine Helen Spence became the first federal woman political candidate in 1897, while in 1965 South Australian lawyer Roma Mitchell became the first woman appointed to a Supreme Court. These are but a few of the many pioneering women who have contributed to the state’s social, cultural and political landscape. However, in a quirk of history, South Australia remains the only Australian jurisdiction not to have had a woman leader. How might this anomaly be explained?' (Introduction)

In Her Own Name: A History of Women in South Australia from 1836; Trailblazers : 100 Inspiring South Australian Women Rachel Harris , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Lilith , January no. 27 2021; (p. 241-243)

— Review of In Her Own Name : A History of Women in South Australia from 1836 Helen Jones , 2020 multi chapter work biography ; Trailblazers : 100 Inspiring South Australian Women Carolyn Collins , Roy Eccleston , 2019 anthology biography

'South Australia is a state of firsts when it comes to women’s history. In 1881, the University of Adelaide was the first university in Australia to award women degrees and, in 1894, South Australia became the first Australian state to allow non-Indigenous women the right to vote. South Australian suffrage leader Catherine Helen Spence became the first federal woman political candidate in 1897, while in 1965 South Australian lawyer Roma Mitchell became the first woman appointed to a Supreme Court. These are but a few of the many pioneering women who have contributed to the state’s social, cultural and political landscape. However, in a quirk of history, South Australia remains the only Australian jurisdiction not to have had a woman leader. How might this anomaly be explained?' (Introduction)

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