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Friends of the Library: Susan Magarey Stitching a Story - Towards a history of Women's Liberation in Australia

Date/Time: Thursday, 18 June 2015, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Location: Ira Raymond Exhibition Room, Barr Smith Library

Cost: Admission $5

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The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library invite you to an event with Susan Magarey on Thursday 18 June, 2015, at 6.00 for 6.30pm in the Ira Raymond Exhibition Room, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide.

Drawing on chapters in her book, Dangerous ideas: Women's Liberation, Women's Studies, Around the World, Susan Magarey will talk about how she is now attempting to write a history of the Women's Liberation Movement in Australia.
At Adelaide University, where she is now Professor Emerita, Susan Magarey founded the Research Centre for Women's Studies 1983-2000 and the Journal Australian Feminist Studies 1985--. In 2006 she was made a member of the Order of Australia for her work in establishing Women's Studies as a new field of intellectual endeavour.

Contact: Mrs Robina Weir, Email: robina.weir@adelaide.edu.au, Website: http://www.alumni.adelaide.edu.au/fol, Friends of the University of Adelaide Library, Barr Smith Library, The University of Adelaide, Business: 8313 4064, Fax: 8313 4369