Guide to the Papers of Daniela Torsh
MS 9147 et al
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Daniela Torsh
- Title
- Papers of Daniela Torsh
- Date Range
- c. 1967-2007
- Collection Number
- MS 9147 et al
- Extent
- 3.6 metres (14 boxes, 1 carton, 3 folio boxes)
- Physical Facet
- MS 9147 (8 ms boxes + 1 carton + 2 small folio boxes)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Scope and Contents
Files maintained by Torsh in her capacity as Consultant for the Schools Commission and Executive Officer with the Steering Committee for the enquiry into social change and the education of women.
The papers comprise a sequence of cutting files on the education of women and other women's issues; a numbered sequence of files relating to the enquiry into social change and the education of women containing cuttings, correspondence, interviews, drafts, reports, speeches, minutes, notes, legislation and other papers; and other files on women in film and other topics.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn170905).
Conditions Governing Use
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Daniela Torsh, National Library of Australia, [class number, box number and series and/or file number]'.
Provenance
The papers were donated to the Library by Ms Torsh in 1987.
Finding Aid Source(s)
Please note: This finding aid may comprise or contain descriptive information provided by donors, researchers and/or volunteers.
Collection Retrieval Advice
Please note: each consignment in this collection has a separate box number sequence (i.e. there may be multiple Box 1s). Please cite the relevant Class number as well as the Box number when requesting retrieval of material from the collection.
Item Descriptions
Class MS 9147. Original consignment
Comprises 1. Cuttings files, 1970-1975, relating to the education of women and other women's issues. 2. Files relating to the Enquiry into social change and the education of women containing cuttings, correspondence, interviews, drafts, reports, speeches, minutes, notes, legislation and other papers, 1974-1975. 3. Other files, 1970-1982, on women and film and other topics. 4. Various journals, reports and publications such as Scarlet woman, Womanspeak, Sydney Women's Liberation newsletter, Women in the ABC: report of Task force on equal opportunity for women, July 1977, Sexism in education, and, the Women and Labor Conference newsletter.
Contained in 8 boxes, 1 carton, 2 fol. boxes.
Series [unnumbered]. Cutting files, 1970-75
Cuttings assembled for the enquiry into social change and the education of women from the Sydney Morning Herald, West Australian, Courier Mail, Canberra Times, Financial Review, National Times and other Australian newspapers.
Series [unnumbered]. Social change and the education of women, 1974-75
Coded sequence of files relating to the Schools Commission Study Group on of the Committee on Social Change and the Education of Women.
Bibliography: 'Social change and the education of women' editing copy and papers (SCEW 49) (File 30) - Box 2
Correspondence- Schools Commission- Report of Committee on social change and the education of women (SCEW 50) (File 31) - Box 2
Correspondence- Schools Commission- Study Group on Women- minutes and papers (SCEW 53) (File 32) - Box 3
Schools Commission- Study of subject choice and performance by sex- Queensland (SCEW 61) (File 34) - Box 3
Schools Commission- Study of subject choice and performance by sex- South Australia (SCEW 62) (File 35) - Box 3
Schools Commission- Study of subject choice and performance by sex- Tasmania (SCEW 63) (File 36) - Box 3
Schools Commission- Study of subject choice and performance by sex- Victoria (SCEW 64) (File 37) - Box 3
Schools Commission- Study Group on Women- suggestions for further research (SCEW 66) (File 38) - Box 3
Schools Commission- Study Group on Women- Study of subject choice and performance by women (SCEW 72) (File 43) - Box 4
Correspondence- technical/further/recurrent education- Diamond Valley Learning Exchange (SCEW 96) (File 64) - Box 5
Correspondence- tertiary education, Colleges of Advanced Education- access of women (SCEW 98) (File 66) - Box 5
Correspondence- tertiary education, Colleges of Advanced Education- women students (SCEW 99) (File 67) - Box 5
Correspondence- tertiary education, Colleges of Advanced Education- women's studies (SCEW 100) (File 68) - Box 5
Correspondence- tertiary education- teachers' colleges- women's studies (SCEW 103) (File 70) - Box 5
Schools Commission- Study Group on Women- Commonwealth Secondary Scholarship Study (SCEW 135) (File 77) - Box 5
Schools Commission- Study Group on Women- report and working notes on country girls and women (SCEW 138) (File 78) - Box 5
Schools Commission- Study Group on Women- Report- working notes on Aboriginal girls and women (SCEW 140) (File 79) - Box 5
Class Acc11_141. Consignment added 2011
Comprises conference papers, newspaper cuttings, realia, sound tapes, correspondence, journals and newsletters (including Refractory Girl) and documentary treatments amongst other material. Papers deal with the political and social activities and profile of Daniela Torsh.
Contained in 3 boxes, 1 fol. box.
Class Acc13.011. Consignment added 2013
Comprises papers covering a wide range of Torsh's research and career, including PhD research material; notes and articles relating to Hungarian film director Istvan Szabo; correspondence; copies of various published articles and journals, by Torsh and others; research notes for articles;notes and drafts relating to the publication Refractory girl; notes and reports relating to various Australian film organisations and events; ephemeral relating to women's rights.
Contained in 3 boxes.
Class MS Acc14.127. Consignment received 2014, 1973-1977 - Box 1-4 (MS Acc14.127)
0.6 metres,This addition contains papers relating to women in education, sexism in schools and women's issues. It consists of papers, clippings, minutes, reports, magazines and transcripts of interviews with primary school aged children for a report on 'Girls, School and Society'. Additionally, there is a paste up of 'A Women's Education Catalogue', and correspondence relating to the appointment of Elizabeth Reid as Prime Minister Whitlam's Womens Adviser.
Separated Materials
2 x CD-r's and 1 x audio cassette removed to obsolete carrier housing [EG]