{"product_id":"2026100008968-secondhand-the-half-open-door-sixteen-modern-australian-women-look-at-professional-life-and-achievement-signed","title":"The Half-Open Door: Sixteen Modern Australian Women Look At Professional Life And Achievement (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 3rd pr.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed,Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Signed by Grimshaw. Light stains on spine, internally sound. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does it truly mean for a woman to succeed in a world designed to keep her at the threshold? The Half-Open Door presents sixteen intimate and candid accounts from pioneering Australian women who navigated the professional landscape of the twentieth century, each confronting the invisible barriers that shaped their ambitions, careers, and identities. Edited by historians Patricia Grimshaw and Lynne Strahan, this landmark anthology gathers voices from across the professions — medicine, law, academia, the arts — to construct a vivid, collective portrait of achievement wrested from a society still ambivalent about women's place in public life.\n\nThe collection stands as a vital document of Australian social history, illuminating the persistent tensions between domestic expectation and professional aspiration that defined a generation of women. Grimshaw and Strahan's editorial framework gives the volume both scholarly rigour and emotional resonance, allowing each contributor's voice to resonate with authenticity and purpose. With illustrations by Sandra Simon adding a distinctive visual dimension, the anthology transcends mere memoir to become a powerful cultural statement — one that compels the reader to ask how far that door has truly opened since.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49336813584603,"sku":"2026100008968-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/87aa2a79-3203-451e-b4f5-8a4e5e095dbc.png?v=1789958550","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100008968-secondhand-the-half-open-door-sixteen-modern-australian-women-look-at-professional-life-and-achievement-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}