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Utopia.Girls.How.Women.Won.The.Vote.PDTV.x264-W4F
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Release Date 2012.06.15
Air Date 2012.06.14
Genre Documentary
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Presented by award-winning historian Dr Clare Wright (The Einstein
Factor), Utopia Girls tells the fascinating, little known story of
how Australian women became the first in the world to gain full
political rights.
Women in the 19th century had virtually no political rights. Once
they married they signed over everything to their husbands
(including their children). If the marriage turned abusive it was
almost impossible to escape. Worse still was the fate of unmarried
mothers. Improving the lot of all women could only be achieved
through political representation.
This representation came about through the vision and hard work of
five remarkable women - Caroline Dexter, Henrietta Dugdale, Louisa
Lawson, Mary Lee and Vida Goldstein. With their comrades, they would
carry the flag over half a century until a newly federated Australia
could claim its title as a uniquely democratic nation, but their
stories were not without personal trials and crushing setbacks.
Combining beautiful graphic and archive sequences to illustrate the
story, the film features some of Australia's most prominent actors
reciting from contemporary texts including Tom Budge, David Field,
Alice Garner, Nicholas Hope, Simon Maiden, Barry Otto, Anna Lise
Phillips, Alexandra Schepisi and Kerry Walker.
ABC1's broadcast coincides almost 110 years to the day since women
were granted the right to vote at a federal level and to stand for
election to the Parliament of Australia via the Commonwealth
Franchise Act.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/utopiagirls.htm
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