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'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.' (Introduction)
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Artists, Social Climbers and Mermaids : 10 Australian Women Who Followed Their Dreams to the US in the Early 20th Century
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