ABSTRACT
To understand something of the implications of race and whiteness in this account of key women philanthropists, and democratic and conservative suffragists, this book begins with the invasion of Quandamooka, Turrbal, Jaggera, and Waka Waka country in 1824. Julia Kristeva argues that the second wave of the feminist movement both inherits the legacy of the first wave of the women's movement and modifies it. Historian Raymond Evans states categorically that it was the labour women who won the vote for Queensland women, when they steered the movement in "ultimately the successful direction", and new evidence in this book confirms his views. Appearances of a broad social agreement, as is argued here, rather than the realities of it, were played out through the vital role of the mainstream fourth estate. The WCTU with its numerous branches was both well networked nationally and internationally, but its primary focus in Queensland was on temperance and social purity.
