PROLOGUE

2. THE WAR

3. THE WAR - WOMEN’S PART

4. LET US REASON TOGETHER

5. VIDA GOLDSTEIN

6. THE WOMEN’S POLITICAL ASSOCIATION

7. THEY WORKED OUT THEIR POSITION

8. THEY DEVELOPED THEIR RESPONSE

9. THEY FOUGHT FOR CIVIL LIBERTY

10. A FIGHT LED BY A WOMAN

11. 'I DIDN'T RAISE MY SON TO BE A SOLDIER'

12. THEY OPPOSED WHITE AUSTRALIA

13. WARRING AGAINST WAR - SUPPORTING SOLDIERS

14. THE WPA DEMANDED
TERMS OF PEACE BE DECLARED
AND SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE

15. THE WPA WAS FEMINIST

16. THE WPA PROTESTED AGAINST UNEMPLOYMENT

18. WINNERS AND LOSERS

19. THE WOMEN’S PEACE ARMY

20. WOMEN'S PEACE ARMY RESOLUTIONS

21. THE WPA ESTABLISHED AND RAN A WOMEN’S UNEMPLOYMENT BUREAU

22. THE WPA ESTABLISHED AND RAN A WOMEN’S FARMING CO-OPERATIVE

23. 'AS GOOD AS A MAN'

24. THE WPA ESTABLISHED AND RAN A WORKERS' COMMUNE

26. THE WPA OPPOSED CONSCRIPTION

28. 80,000 PEOPLE ON YARRA BANK

29. PRESS, PULPIT AND PURSE

30. A CONSTRUCTIVE PEACE

31. WOMEN’S TERMS OF PEACE

32. PEACE IN HONOUR’S CAUSE

33. WHOSE PEACE?

34. THE ARMISTICE IS NOT PEACE

35. 1919 THE WPA EXPOSED THE BLOCKADE

36. HYPOCRISY

37. THE WORLD IS SICK UNTO DEATH

38. THE WPA SENT TWO REPRESENTATIVES TO THE 1919 WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR PERMANENT PEACE AT ZURICH

39. THE WPA DENOUNCED THE VERSAILLES PEACE TREATY

40. THE WPA REPORTED THE WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS

41. THE OLD ORDER HAS NOT CHANGED

42. HERE, IN AUSTRALIA

43. THE END?

44. STRANDED IN LONDON

45. ANZAC - THE SISTERHOOD FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE (1915-1919)

46. ANZAC - THE WOMEN’S POLITICAL ASSOCIATION

47. AN ANZAC SERMON

48. THE ‘WRONGS UNDER WHICH THEIR COMRADES HAD LIVED’

49. THE WOMEN?

50. ANOTHER WAR

FIRST WORLD WAR WOMEN

working for peace in Melbourne 1914-1919

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44. STRANDED IN LONDON

Vida Goldstein was stranded in London without

the fare home. According to the Woman Voter the

amount raised was disappointing, owing to the

strike and to the outbreak of influenza. It was not

enough to pay for the return passage.

The Woman Voter recommended that members

join the newly created Women’s

International League for Peace and Freedom

(WILPF).

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Eleanor Moore from the Sisterhood of

International Peace:

(Dr Strong) thought it desirable that they (women)

should have a society of their own, managed in

their own way ...

The objects of the (Women’s) Peace Army were

not essentially different from those of the

Sisterhood, and the two groups might well have

combined under one name, but for what might be

called a difference in tone ...

If one is to go to gaol for hindering recruiting (that

was the sovereign offence in 1915), or to be

ducked in the river by indignant men in uniform, it

is something to know that the trouble springs from

the assertion of one’s principle and not from the

indiscretion of a colleague ...

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The Zurich 1919 Conference -

One of its decisions was to organize a world-wide,

permanent movement under the name “Women’s

International League for Peace and Freedom,”

with a central bureau in Geneva, and National

Sections in as many countries as could be induced

to form them ...

(Sisterhood of  International Peace) members then

agreed to become the Australian section ... and

the group was thenceforward known by that

name, or, for convenience, by its initials, WILPF.

Eleanor M. Moore, The Quest for Peace as I have known it in Australia, Melbourne 1949 pp 27, 28-9, 53

  Eleanor Moore

45. ANZAC - THE SISTERHOOD FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE (1915-1919)