Grimshaw, Patricia

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Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsEditorsGenderFemaleHistoryPat Grimshaw completed her postgraduate studies at Auckland University in New Zealand. Her seminal study of women's suffrage in New Zealand was published by Auckland University Press in 1972. In 1977, Pat was appointed as a lecturer in women's history at the University of Melbourne. Her new course, 'Changing Concepts of Women's Place', remained central to the women's studies program for the next twenty years. The establishment of the Women's Studies Centre in 1988 owed much to her influence. Pat became renowned for her dynamism and enthusiasm as a lecturer, inspiring the hundreds of students under her tutelage.

See the Australian Women's Register for a full biography.
The collection relates to preparation and publication of "The Half Open Door", a book of sixteen autobiographical chapters by sixteen women of various professions, most of whom were associated with the University of Melbourne. Patricia Grimshaw and Lynne Strahan were joint editors. Patricia Grimshaw wrote the introduction, Lynne Strahan was a contributor along with Barbara Falk, Therese Radic, Nina Christesen, Mary Macqueen, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Joyce Nicholson, Dame Kate Cambell, Helen Gifford, Alison Patrick, Beatrice Faust, Norma Grieve, Deidre FitzGerald, Mary Turner Shaw, Dinan Dyason, Judith Lumley. The portrait illustrations were by Sandra Simon.

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