ABSTRACT
Sylvia Kinder was born in Liverpool, England, and has been an Australian resident for fourteen years. Aged thirty-three she is guardian to two younger sisters (eighteen and twenty). She is tertiary trained, and currently a secondary teacher in an alternative school in Adelaide having worked previously as a primary school teacher, psychiatric nurse and as a worker in a women’s studies resource centre. She belongs to a number of feminist groups and has always been involved in a variety of organizations such as the teacher unions. She has written a number of articles on a variety of topics, including one on the history of the Adelaide women’s liberation movement, published in Worth Her Salt (ed. M. Bevege, M. James and C. Shute, Sydney, Hale & Ironmonger, 1982).
