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Jessie Street by Jessie Street

Jessie Street was a key public figure for 50 years-a pioneering Australian feminist, instrumental in setting up the UN, and the initiator of the 1967 amendment to the constitution that gave Aborigines basic rights. This autobiography was first published in 1967, and has been re-edited to eliminate inconsistencies and restore chronology.

Published 2 February, 2007

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Jessie Street was a key public figure for 50 years-a pioneering Australian feminist, instrumental in setting up the UN, and the initiator of the 1967 amendment to the constitution that gave Aborigines basic rights. This autobiography was first published in 1967, and has been re-edited to eliminate inconsistencies and restore chronology. It covers Jessie Street’s life up to the end of World War II, and is a fascinating first hand account of a world at war and a brain at work. Jessie Street was fired by a single idea-all people are equal. This idea emerges from the book as a simple, practical notion, and she writes of it simply and practically whether touring the USSR, India or the US. Stories about the difficulties of getting changed in a railway cabin shared with two Russian men, or a complex analysis of the economics of capitalism, are dealt with one after the other with equal humour and sensibility. One does what one has to-undresses in the toilet or overthrows capitalism, and then moves on to the next problem without making a fuss. This is an important reissue, written in an engaging style, and is recommended.

Peter Salmon is the editor of Readings Books and Music’s monthly newsletter

This review from Australian Bookseller & Publisher magazine is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker

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