Clare Wright

Clare Alice Wright OAM is an American Australian historian, author, broadcaster and podcaster. She is Professor of History and Professor of Public Engagement at La Trobe University, and was the winner of the 2014 Stella Prize.

Clare Wright reviews ‘The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia’ by Susanna de Vries

August 2003, no. 253 • 01 August 2003

If it is inadvisable to judge a book by its cover, perhaps it is equally unreliable to judge one by its title. But The Complete Book of Great Australian Women set my teeth on edge before I’d turned the first page. What qualifies a woman for greatness? Great deeds? Great courage? Great neighbours? And wasn’t the point of feminist history not only to open up the list of historical actors but als ... (read more)