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Note: A memoir written collaboratively by the author, Carolyn Landon, her subject, Bette Boyanton, with Gina Boyanton and Les Boyanton.
Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Cups with No Handles : Memoir of a Grassroots Activist
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'Memoir of a grassroots activist

'Cups with No Handles explores the battle women face between a public life and the demands of family. Bette had a vision of a better world and her activism was a model for women in following generations.

'Bette Boyanton, a woman who struggled to overcome the disadvantages of poverty, lack of education, inequality and poor health, became an inspiring social reformer and political activist.

'Born in the 1920s into a poor family of eleven children, Bette was determined not to follow in the footsteps of her exhausted and discouraged mother. Her father, an unemployed returned soldier and member of the Communist Party, inspired Bette with ideas of equality, fairness and social justice, but, having left school at thirteen, Bette worked in menial jobs and married young. She soon found herself on an isolated dairy farm, struggling with children just as her mother had. Still, she was always interested in politics, social change and workers’ rights. She joined the Party and became a friend of Frank and Ross Hardy (Power Without Glory). Working for women’s rights, she demonstrated, presented petitions, became a member of Women’s Electoral Lobby and was a founding member of Australian Neighbourhood Houses and Learning Centres, part of a huge grassroots community movement focused on the empowerment of women through a philosophy of caring, sharing and new learning which opened up their horizons.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ormond, Brighton - Moorabbin area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Hybrid , 2008 .
      image of person or book cover 8968071653420873424.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: xii, 288p.,[8]p. of platesp.
      Note/s:
      • Includes index
      ISBN: 9781876462550 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

What Choice? Marian Quartly , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 302 2008; (p. 54)

— Review of Cups with No Handles : Memoir of a Grassroots Activist Carolyn Landon , 2008 single work biography
In Short : Nonfiction Bruce Elder , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 5-6 April 2008; (p. 35)

— Review of Cups with No Handles : Memoir of a Grassroots Activist Carolyn Landon , 2008 single work biography
[Review] Cups with No Handles Lucy Sussex , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 17 February 2008; (p. 26)

— Review of Cups with No Handles : Memoir of a Grassroots Activist Carolyn Landon , 2008 single work biography
[Review] Cups with No Handles Lucy Sussex , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 17 February 2008; (p. 26)

— Review of Cups with No Handles : Memoir of a Grassroots Activist Carolyn Landon , 2008 single work biography
In Short : Nonfiction Bruce Elder , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 5-6 April 2008; (p. 35)

— Review of Cups with No Handles : Memoir of a Grassroots Activist Carolyn Landon , 2008 single work biography
What Choice? Marian Quartly , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 302 2008; (p. 54)

— Review of Cups with No Handles : Memoir of a Grassroots Activist Carolyn Landon , 2008 single work biography
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