{"product_id":"hecate-a-women-s-interdisciplinary-journal-vol-iv-no-2-july-1978-edited-by-carole-ferrier","title":"'Hecate: A Women’s Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. IV, No. 2, July 1978' edited by Carole Ferrier","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"97\" data-end=\"669\"\u003eFounded in Brisbane in 1975, \u003cem data-start=\"126\" data-end=\"134\"\u003eHecate\u003c\/em\u003e emerged as an explicitly feminist journal willing to move between political history, literary criticism, social research, poetry and visual work.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"97\" data-end=\"669\"\u003eThis early issue captures the journal while Australian feminism was still building its own archives: recovering women excluded from official histories, examining the joint machinery of patriarchy and capitalism, and treating colonialism, labour and race as structural rather than decorative questions. \u003cspan class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"671\" data-end=\"1276\"\u003eThe issue opens with a substantial study of Aboriginal women workers in the Northern Territory between 1911 and 1939, followed by an investigation into the death of an immigrant woman in colonial Western Australia. Elsewhere it examines the difficult political life of Adela Pankhurst Walsh, whose movement from militant suffragism and socialism toward conservative and anti-communist politics resists the neat heroic biographies movements often prefer. The volume also includes poetry, criticism, work on women in art, and a bibliography devoted to women and labour. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"671\" data-end=\"1276\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eThe prose retains the pressure of retrieval: testimony, government reports, neglected political lives and fragmentary records are treated not as dead evidence but as sites where power has hidden its casualties. A strong piece of Australian feminist print history, especially for readers interested in colonial archives, women’s labour, Indigenous history and the ideological complications that respectable retrospective narratives tend to sand flat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1926\" data-end=\"2084\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVol. IV, No. 2, July 1978. Original illustrated wrappers. Moderate edge and corner wear with small chips and surface marks; internally clean and firmly bound.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45860513218643,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-07-24T144701.810.png?v=1784868489","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/hecate-a-women-s-interdisciplinary-journal-vol-iv-no-2-july-1978-edited-by-carole-ferrier","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}