Teacher for Justice: Lucy Woodcock's Transnational Life by Heather Goodall, Helen Randerson, Devleena Ghosh ISBN 9781760463052, 9781760463045, 1760463051, 1760463043 instant download

Teacher for Justice: Lucy Woodcock's Transnational Life by Heather Goodall, Helen Randerson, Devleena Ghosh ISBN 9781760463052, 9781760463045, 1760463051, 1760463043 instant download

Teacher for Justice is a major contribution to the history of the women’s movement, working‑class activism and Australian political internationalism. But it is more than this. By focusing on the life of Lucy Woodcock – an unrecognised and under-researched figure – this book rewrites the history of twentieth-century Australia from the perspective of an activist who challenged conventions to fight for gender, race and class equality, exploring the complex and multi-layered intersections of these aspects. 
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It explores Woodcock’s personal relationships and the circles she mixed in and the friendships she forged, as well as the conventions she challenged as a single woman in possibly a same-sex relationship. The book makes a key contribution to the history of progressive education and the experience of women teachers. Above all, it charts the life of a transnational figure who made connections globally and, in particular, with refugees and with women in India and the Asian region. It is a detailed, thoroughly researched and richly textured history which places Woodcock within the context of the times in which she lived.