Professor Susan Magarey: Women's Liberation and Dame Roma Mitchell

The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library and the History Trust of South Australia invite you to a free public talk with Professor Susan Magarey on Thursday 11 September 2008 at 6.00 for 6.30pm.

Venue: Ira Raymond Exhibition Room, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide.

The Women's Liberation Movement formed an entirely new context for the first woman to be made a judge in a superior court. Was the Women's Liberation Movement about to make Her Honour Justice Mitchell look like a relic of an old and superseded order? What did she think of Women's Liberation?

Our speaker is Susan Magarey AM, FASSA, PhD, Adjunct-Professor in History at the University of Adelaide, Founding Editor of the triennial journal Australian Feminist Studies, co-author, with Kerrie Round, of Roma the First: A biography of Dame Roma Mitchell. (Wakefield Press, 2007); President of the Friends of the University of Adelaide Library 2006-2008.

This event is in association with the exhibition Blue Jeans and Jungle Greens, which is on display at the History Trust Exhibition Gallery until August 2009.

Bookings by Tuesday 9 September to:
Email: robina.weir@adelaide.edu.au
Telephone: 8303 4064

Admission is free and open to the public: gold coin donation invited.

Seating is limited.

Paul Wilkins
Deputy University Librarian
Barr Smith Library

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