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Catherine Dwyer (filmmaker)
Catherine Dwyer or Kathryn Dwyer may refer to: * Catherine Dwyer (filmmaker), Australian writer and director of the feature documentary ''Brazen Hussies'' *Catherine Winifred Dwyer, Australian educator and suffragist *Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan, American geologist {{Hndis, Dwyer, Catherine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazen Hussies
''Brazen Hussies'' is a 2020 Australian documentary feature recording the history of the Women's liberation movement in Oceania#Australia, Women's Liberation Movement in Australia from 1965 to 1975. Synopsis The film covers the evolution of second-wave feminism in Australia. It includes footage taken by ASIO, as well as actor Sigrid Thornton, then aged 12, waving a women's liberation flag with her mum, Merle Thornton, Merle, who started the movement in Brisbane when she chained herself to a pub counter in which women were not allowed to drink. The movement coincided with the Australia in the Vietnam War, anti-Vietnam war movement, the anti-apartheid movement. Production It is Catherine Dwyer's first film as director and Sue Maslin was executive producer. Maslin later said that the filmmakers had great difficulty in getting it financed. The film was so named because the women's movement had reclaimed the formerly pejorative term, wearing it as a "badge of honour". Release Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Winifred Dwyer
Catherine Winifred "Kate" Dwyer (; 13 June 1861 – 3 February 1949) was an Australian educator, suffragist, and labour activist. Early life and education Dwyer née Golding was born at Tambaroora, Wellington County, New South Wales to Joseph Golding (died 1890), a gold-miner from Galway, Ireland, and his Scottish wife, Ann (died 1906; née Fraser). She was educated at Hill End Public School. Career In 1880 Dwyer began teaching at Tambaroora Public School, she taught at numerous public primary school in New South Wales until she married fellow school teacher Michael Dwyer in 1887. From 1894 they lived in Sydney where Dwyer became a member of the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales, her sisters, Annie Mackenzie Golding, Annie and Belle were also members. Dwyer was a founder of the Women's Progressive Association in 1901, the organisation promoted the entry of women into legal professions and equal benefits for women following divorce. Interested in women's wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
