Roma the First: A Biography of Dame Roma MitchellHere is Roma Flinders Mitchell, 1913-2000, a life spanning a century that transformed the position of women, changes she led. She was the first woman chancellor of an Australian university, the first woman in Australia to be made a Queen's Counsel and to be appointed a judge in a superior court and the first woman Governor of an Australian State. Roma Mitchell's life is also a story about contradictions. A life-long and devout Catholic, her religion aligned her with Irish working-class Outsiders, yet she gained a position at the heart of the Protestant Establishment, in a world almost exclusively of men. |
Contents
Growing Up Caring Competitive | 1 |
Courses in Law and Life | 27 |
World War Two | 59 |
Out of the Frozen Fifties | 89 |
Roma the First | 125 |
The Golden Years | 165 |
Roma the Reformer | 221 |
Citizen of the World | 251 |
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