Women Who Want to be Women, 1980-2000
- Component identifier:
- Series 11
- Content Summary:
- Phyllis Boyd was a founding member and Victorian co-ordinator of the organisation Women Who Want To Be Women (WWWW), the aim of which was to enhance the status of uniquely female roles under the precept that men and women are equal but different. This series contains correspondence and papers relating to the activities of WWWW. There are numerous letters from politicians, often containing quite detailed replies in response to WWWW's lobbying on issues such as the Sex Discrimination Bill 1984, the Equal Opportunity Bill, the Embryo Experimentation Bill and the In-Vitro Fertilisation Programme. There are also reports, submissions, copies of government press releases, ephemera and correspondence with Babette Francis, the organisation's National and International Co-ordinator.
- Immediate source of acquisition:
- The collection has been acquired in three instalments. The first instalment, which comprised papers relating to the Lindy Chamberlain Campaign, was donated to the Library by the Boyds in 1989. The second instalment was acquired from Phyllis Boyd under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme in 1995. The third and largest instalment of papers was bequeathed to the Library by Phyllis Boyd and received in 2002, following her death.
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- Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1061312).
- Parent Terms of Access:
- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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