Collection: Reference

This is an essential tool to assist women to understand the law as it impacts on their relationships with other partners and children

This book profiles forty-five female artists and their significant contributions to the canon of art history. It starts in the sixteenth century, when women were first formally allowed to participate in the period's artistic enlightenment, and continues through today.

Dawn Fraser - Betty Cuthbert - Margaret Court - Evonne Goolagong Cawley - Kathy Watt - Lisa Martin Ondieki - Cathy Freeman - Kirstie Marshall - Famous Australian people.

Women's economic role and its associated artefacts - digging sticks, baskets and carrying dishes; gathering and food preparation; shell fishing - midden formation; grinding stones and seed processing - wild arrow root preparation; mythology - brolga, emu and the grindstone; women's religious...

A general survey of contemporary and historic works by Aboriginal women which are held in the collections of the Museum of Victoria selected for their diversity of form and to provide a broad coverage both in terms of time and geography.