Sharon Crozier-De Rosa: Jean Arnot – The feelings of a forgotten political activist
Sharon Crozier-De Rosa explores how SLNSW librarian Jean Arnot used emotion to power her campaign for equal pay for women.
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Political activism requires hard work. It also requires a level of emotional engagement that is both exhilarating and exhausting. We know about the physical labour of activism, but we know much less about its emotional counterpart.
Drawing on the papers of SLNSW librarian and equal pay activist, Jean Arnot (1903-1995), Professor Sharon Crozier-De Rosa reveals how her understanding of the emotional relationship between the woman worker, the state as employer, and legislation, powered her campaign for social justice.
Sharon Crozier-De Rosa is Professor of History at the University of Wollongong and SLNSW Visiting Scholar. She is author of several books on women’s activism and emotions, and she mentors junior colleagues as Australian Women’s History Network advisor and Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand president.