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Papers of Daniela Torsh, 1970-1985 [manuscript]
Bib ID 170905
Format ManuscriptManuscript
Author
Torsh, Daniela, 1946-
 
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Access Conditions Part available for research; part not available for research. Not for loan. 
Description [1970-1985] 
2.10 m. (8 boxes) + 1 carton + 2 fol. boxes. 
Summary

MS 9147 comprises: 1. Cuttings files, 1970-1975, relating to the education of women and other women's issues. 2. Files relating to the Enquiry into social change and the education of women containing cuttings, correspondence, interviews, drafts, reports, speeches, minutes, notes, legislation and other papers, 1974-1975. 3. Other files, 1970-1982, on women and film and other topics. 4. Various journals, reports and publications such as Scarlet woman, Womanspeak, Sydney Women's Liberation newsletter, Women in the ABC: report of Task force on equal opportunity for women, July 1977, Sexism in education, and, the Women and Labor Conference newsletter (8 boxes, 1 carton, 2 fol. boxes).

Biography/History

Feminist, journalist, filmmaker, writer, consultant and public servant. Daniela Antoinette Torsh attended the University of Sydney graduating with a Bachelor of Science (Hons.) degree. She was active in women's issues at university where she was elected to the Women's Union on the platform of a combined male and female union. She worked as a journalist with The Australian and developed her interest in education. As an independent filmmaker in the 1970s, she produced "St Theresa", a discussion film about women in prison. Torsh became prominent in women's education policy and acted as consultant for the Commonwealth Schools Commission. Subsequently she was executive officer with the Steering Committee for the Enquiry into social change and the education of women. Torsh compiled A bibliography of social change and the education of women (with Robyn Dryen and Martha Kay, 1974), and was editor of Good morning boys and girls: a women's education catalogue (1976).

Notes

Manuscript reference no.: MS 9147.

Index/Finding Aid Note Finding aid available in the Manuscript Reading Room and on the Internet at: http://www.nla.gov.au/ms/findaids/9147.html 
Subjects Torsh, Daniela, - 1946- - Archives.  |  Feminists - Australia - Archives.  |  Government consultants - Australia - Archives.  |  Women public officers - Australia - Archives.  |  Feminism - Australia.  |  Social change - Australia.  |  Women - Education - Australia.  |  Sex discrimination in education - Australia.  |  Motion pictures and women - Australia.  |  Australia - Social conditions - 20th century.  |  Australia - Officials and employees - Archives.
Occupation Feminists.  |  Film producers and directors.  |  Government advisors.  |  Public officers.  |  Authors.  |  Oral history interviewers.
Other authors/contributors Australia. Committee on Social Change and the Education of Women. Study Group

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