Suffrage tapestries
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2013
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Lawrence, K.
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Bartlett, A.
Henderson, M.
Henderson, M.
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Source details - Title: Things that liberate: an Australian feminist wunderkamer, 2013 / Bartlett, A., Henderson, M. (ed./s), pp.167-182
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Two feminist objects, the Women 's Suffrage Centenary Community Tapestries, hang facing each other amongst portraits of former Premiers and Speakers in the House of Assembly Chamber of the South Australian Parliament. Conceived by a bipartisan group of women politicians, they were woven in public to mark over one hundred years of ground-breaking legislation in South Australia which gave women the right to vote and equality before the law. The story of their design, making and reception charts the importance of their symbolism to the community, while revealing some of the anxieties produced by inserting women's issues, women's work and women's textiles practice into the patriarchal space of the Parliament. These tensions are encapsulated in the title of the booklet published to commemorate the making of the tapestries: A Woman 's Place is in the House (Office of the Status of Women 1994), a title that neatly expresses ambivalence about women's rightful sphere of influence.
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Copyright 2013 Alison Bartlett and Margaret Henderson and contributors