ABSTRACT
Ann Curthoys is an Australian aged thirty-six, married with a seven year old son. She has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Diploma of Education and Doctorate, and lectures in Australian history, social history of women and ethnic relations at the New South Wales Institute of Technology. She has published articles in Refractory Girl, Arena and Politics, a chapter in Australian Women: Feminist Perspectives edited by Grieve and Grimshaw (Oxford University Press, 1981) and has co-edited Women at Work (ASSLH, Canberra, 1975) with Eade and Spearitt. She was on the organising collective for the First Women and Labour Conference (Sydney, 1978); participated in the Women’s Employment Rights Campaign and co-ordinated the Women’s Studies Courses at the Australian National University 1976-77.
