MS 9353
Papers of Thelma Hunter (1923- )
Papers
1950-84
4.34 m. (31 boxes)
Available for reference
Dr Hunter donated the collection to the Library in four instalments
between 1991 and 1999.
The papers include correspondence, notes, typescripts, photographs,
circulars, roneoed and printed material relating to Hunter's interests in
women's issues and social policy, health politics and Indian politics.
The correspondents include Ulrich Ellis, R.I. Downing, Ronald Grieve,
Enid Bach (Chairman of Suffragette Fellowship, England), Eva D. Spicer
(Society for the Ministry of Women in the Church, England), Pamela Lewis
(Status of Women Committee, England), I.B. West (Association of Head
Mistresses, England), Doreen Powell (The National Council of Women of
Great Britain) and Peter Arnold.
Hunter has kept most of the papers in files. The arrangement of papers
within these files and the file titles have been preserved by the Library.
Papers of her husband, Dr Alexander Hunter, are held at MS 3652.
Academic and feminist. Dr Thelma Anna Carmela Hunter's main research
interests include women's issues and social policy, health politics and
Indian politics.
| 1923 |
Born in Glasgow, Scotland |
| 1942-46 |
Served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service |
| 1947 |
Married Alex Hunter |
| 1950-56 |
MA Political Science and Political Economy, University of Glasgow |
| 1950-53 |
Part-time research assistant and examiner, University of Glasgow |
| 1953-58 |
Part-time tutor, Oxford University Extension |
| 1958 |
Arrived in Australia with husband and three children |
| 1958-60 |
Part-time tutor in Economics, University of Melbourne |
| 1960-64 |
Part-time lecturer and tutor in Politics, University of Sydney |
| 1965-69 |
Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Australian National
University |
| 1969 |
Completed PhD in Political Science ('The politics of national
health') at the Australian National University |
| 1969-82 |
Senior lecturer in Politics, Australian National University |
| 1971 |
Alex Hunter died |
| 1979 |
Certificate of Special Studies in Visual Arts, Dartington College of
Arts |
| 1982- |
Part-time lecturer in Politics, Australian National University |
| 1984 |
Visiting Scholar, Victoria University, British Columbia |
| 1984-85 |
Visiting Fellow, Centre for Continuing Education, Australian
National University |
| 1990-94 |
Visiting Fellow, Politics Programme, Department of Political
Science, Australian National University |
| 1994-95 |
Visiting Fellow, Politics Programme, School of Social Sciences,
Australian National University |
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Publications: |
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Not a dutiful daughter: the personal story of a migrant academic,
Canberra: Ginninderra Press, 1999 |
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Numerous articles in Australian and overseas publications,
including: |
| (i) |
'The employment of women in Australia,
Journal of industrial relations, vol. 3, no. 2, Oct. 1961 |
| (ii) |
'Planning Australia's National Health
Service', Public administration (London), Autumn 1966 |
| (iii) |
'Indian communism and the Keralan
experience of coalition government', British journal of Commonwealth
Studies, vol. X, no. 1, 1972 |
| (iv) |
'Married women in academia: a personal
view', Vestes: the Autralian Universities' Review, 1975 |
| (v) |
'The politics of National Health
Insurance', in Perspectives on health poilicy, edited by J.
Deeble and M. Tatchell, ANU Press, 1993 |
| Series |
Title |
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| 1 |
Women: correspondence, 1960-69 |
| 2 |
Women: subject files, 1957-75 |
| 3 |
Women: printed material, 1968-75 |
| 4 |
Health: correspondence, 1967-84 |
| 5 |
Health: subject files, 1967-84 |
| 6 |
Health: conferences, seminars and lectures, 1950-84 |
| 7 |
Health: printed material |
| 8 |
Indian politics |
| 9 |
Photographs |
| Series 1 |
Women: correspondence, 1960-69 |
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The series comprises two folders of correspondence concerning
women's issues, with organisations and government departments in
England and Australia. The correspondents include Department of Adult
Education, Sydney University, Department of Labour and National
Service, Enid Bach (Chairman of Suffragette Fellowship, England), Eva
D. Spicer (Society for the Ministry of Women in the Church, England),
Pamela Lewis (Status of Women Committee, England), I.B. West
(Association of Head Mistresses, England), Doreen Powell (National
Council of Women of Great Britain), Juanita Frances (Married Women's
Association, England), Western Australia Court of Arbitration, New
South Wales Department of Labour and Industry and Apprenticeship
Commission of Tasmania. |
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Folder |
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| 1 |
Correspondence, 1966-69 |
| 2 |
Correspondence concerning apprenticeship, 1960 |
| Series 2 |
Women: subject files, 1955-75 |
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Women and social policy has been one of Hunter's research interests
and this is reflected in the subject files found in this series. The
arrangement of papers within these files and the file titles have been
preserved by the Library.
The papers include correspondence (Staffordshire Education
Committee, Part-time Employment Agency, Manchester, Cheshire Education
Committee, Rosemary Russell, D.D. Furley and Australian Broadcasting
Commission), notes, typescripts, cuttings (including Canberra
Times, Sydney Morning Herald, National Times, Life,
Newsweek, New York Times, The Australian and
Age), photocopies and roneoed material. |
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Folder |
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| 1 |
Abortion lobbyists, 1973-74 |
| 2 |
Abortion: overseas, 1973 |
| 3 |
Book reviews and abstracts, 1971-74 |
| 4 |
Capitalism, liberalism and women, 1972 |
| 5-7 |
Childcare, 1970-75 |
| 8 |
Citizens' Advisory Council on the Status of Women, 1970 |
| 9 |
Civil Service (includes cuttings on maternity leave), 1971-73 |
| 10 |
Courses, 1972 |
| 11-12 |
Education, 1972-74 |
| 13-14 |
Employment (n.d.) |
| 15 |
Employment: part-time (correspondence), 1955-59 |
| 16 |
Employment: US, c. 1971 |
| 17-18 |
Equal pay, 1972-77 |
| 19 |
Feminism and politics: research, 1975 |
| 20 |
Feminism and pressure group politics (n.d.) |
| 21 |
Feminist movements (n.d.) |
| 22 |
Feminist theory, c. 1975 |
| 23 |
Industrial relations, c. 1971 |
| 24 |
Legal issues, 1973-74 |
| 25 |
Legal status of married women, c. 1968 |
| 26 |
Male allies, 1971-73 |
| 27 |
Matriarchy and fertility, c. 1975 |
| 28 |
Media, 1972-73 |
| 29 |
Migrant women (n.d.) |
| 30 |
Overseas women, 1972-74 |
| 31 |
National Rehabilitation and Compensation Scheme (n.d.) |
| 32 |
Public office, 1972-74 (See also Folders 60-63) |
| 33 |
Racism and feminism, 1975 |
| 34 |
Responses of political system (n.d.) |
| 35 |
Sex, class and socialism (n.d.) |
| 36-37 |
Sex and political participation of women (n.d.) |
| 38 |
Sex and political socialisation (n.d.) |
| 39 |
Sex and stratification (n.d.) |
| 40 |
Single mothers (n.d.) |
| 41 |
Social policy (n.d.) |
| 42 |
Social security, 1972-74 |
| 43 |
Social services, 1973-74 |
| 44 |
Social welfare, 1975 |
| 45 |
Social welfare benefits (n.d.) |
| 46 |
Status of women (n.d.) |
| 47-48 |
Television talks (n.d.) |
| 49 |
Women: behavioural genetics (n.d.) |
| 50 |
Women and the Church, 1958-59 |
| 51 |
Women and development, 1975 |
| 52 |
Women and politics, 1975 |
| 53 |
Women in China, 1973-74 |
| 54 |
Women in France (n.d.) |
| 55 |
Women in India, 1957-73 |
| 56 |
Women in Japan (n.d.) |
| 57 |
Women in Peri? (New Guinea?, n.d.) |
| 58 |
Women in USSR (n.d.) |
| 59 |
Women in the labour force: maternity leave (n.d.) |
| 60-61 |
Women in parliament (n.d.) |
| 62 |
Women in public life (n.d.) |
| 63 |
Women in public service (n.d.) |
| 64-65 |
Women in tertiary education, 1970-74 |
| 66 |
Women in trade unions (Australia and England, n.d.) |
| 67 |
Women's advisors, 1973-74 |
| 68 |
Women's Electoral Lobby, 1972-74 |
| 69 |
Women's Electoral Lobby: ACT, 1974 |
| 70 |
Women's Electoral Lobby: Federal Election, 1972 |
| 71 |
Women's Electoral Lobby: telephone tree, 1973-74 |
| 72 |
Women's Electoral Lobby: First National Conference, Canberra, 1973 |
| 73 |
Women's Electoral Lobby: ACT Newsletter, 1973-75 |
| 74 |
Women's Electoral Lobby: miscellaneous (n.d.) |
| 75 |
Women's Equity Action League, 1971 |
| 76 |
Women's issues: divorce reform, 1973-74 |
| 77-82 |
Women's issues, 1971-74 |
| 83 |
Women's liberation: Australia, 1972-74 |
| 84 |
Women's liberation: overseas, 1970-74 |
| 85 |
Women's liberation: printed, 1971-74 |
| 86-87 |
Women's organisations, 1971-74 |
| 88-91 |
Women's studies, 1974-76 |
| 92 |
Miscellaneous |
| 93-96 |
Card indexes |
| Series 3 |
Women: printed material, 1968-75 |
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Hunter has annotated most of the printed material found in this
series. |
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Box |
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| 16 |
The spokeswomen: an independent monthly newsletter of women's
news (US, 1972-73), Know INC (US, 1972-75) and other
titles |
| 17 |
Women's Liberation Federation Annual report and Newsletter
(UK, 1967-73), Calling all women (UK, 1968-69), Report
and Journal of the Association of Assistant Mistresses (UK,
1968-74) and other titles |
| 18 |
Including Women workers (UK, 1965-68) and Refractory
girl (1973-78) |
| 19 |
Women's studies abstracts (US), 1972-78 |
| 20 |
Marked copies of MS, 1972-73 |
| 21 |
InterNationes (Germany), 1972-74 and other titles |
| 22 |
Women in the work force, 1968-70 and other titles |
| Series 4 |
Health: correspondence, 1963-83 |
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This small group of correspondence mostly dates from 1967-68 when
Hunter was writing her doctoral thesis on the politics of the
Australian national health scheme. The correspondents include Ulrich
Ellis, R.I. Downing and Ronald Grieve. There are also some letters
from Peter Arnold in 1983 concerning the Australian Medical
Association and the General Practioners' Society of Australia. |
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One folder |
| Series 5 |
Health: subject files, 1967-84 |
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The series includes notes, photocopies, cuttings and minutes of
meetings of the ANU Health Research Project Advisory Committee, of
which Hunter was a member. |
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Folder |
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| 1 |
Australian Medical Association (n.d.) |
| 2 |
Australian Medical Association versus government, 1967-75 |
| 3 |
Australian Constitution and the national health issues (n.d.) |
| 4 |
Comparative (n.d.) |
| 5 |
Conflict within organised medicine, 1970-77 |
| 6 |
Consumerism, 1976 |
| 7 |
Contacts |
| 8 |
Cuttings, 1970 |
| 9-16 |
Cuttings and photocopies, 1983-84 |
| 17 |
Doctor's Reform Society, Sydney, c. 1982 |
| 18-19 |
Department of Political Science, ANU: lecture notes and handouts |
| 20 |
Health (n.d.) |
| 21-22 |
Health services in ACT, 1981-83 |
| 23 |
Health Research Project Advisory Committee, ANU: minutes of
meetings, 1977-78 |
| 24 |
Hospitals (n.d.) |
| 25 |
Library of Nuffield Centre for Health Service Studies, University of
Leeds: printed material |
| 26 |
Mental health, 1976 |
| 27-28 |
National Health Policy in Australia (n.d.) |
| 29 |
Party politics, 1963-77 |
| 30 |
Reprints of articles by Hunter, 1965-80 |
| 31 |
Roneo material, leaflets and circulars |
| 32 |
'Pressure groups and health policy': Department of Political
Science: students' results, 1979 |
| 33 |
Theoretical (n.d.) |
| 34 |
Theoretical perspectives |
| Series 6 |
Health: conferences, seminars and lectures, 1950-84 |
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The series comprises copies of papers, which were either written by
Hunter or by other academics, given at conferences, seminars and
lectures, as well as papers which had been sent to Hunter for her
information. The files have been arranged in chronological order and,
where possible, the names of the conferences, seminars or lectures are
included. |
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Folder |
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| 1 |
1950-68 |
| 2 |
1965: ALP Federal Conference: Health Committee Report, Canberra |
| 3-4 |
1968: Conference on Medical Practice and the Community, ANU |
| 5 |
1974-78 |
| 6 |
1980-83 |
| 7 |
1981: Health Economists Group Conference, ANU |
| 8-9 |
1982: ANU Public Affairs Conference |
| 10 |
1982: Social Justice Project Mini-Conference on Health Policy and
Health Equity, ANU |
| 11 |
1983-84: 'Medical politics; the decline in hegemony of Australian
Medical Association' by Thelma Hunter |
| 12 |
Miscellaneous papers (n.d.) |
| Series 7 |
Health: printed material |
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The series include reprints by other authors, cuttings and
photocopies of articles and other printed material. |
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Three boxes |
| Series 8 |
Indian politics |
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One of Hunter's interests was Indian politics. The series includes
the following publications:
- Hunter, Thelma. 'Congress Party politics and the general
elections in India' (reprint), 1967
- Hunter, Thelma. 'Indian communism and Kerala experience of
coalition government 1967-69' (reprint)
- Hunter, Thelma. Aspects of national health insurance in
Australia published by Indian Institute of Public
Administration, New Delhi, c. 1966
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One box |
| Series 9 |
Series 9 Photographs (n.d.) |
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Six black and white and colour photographs of Peter Self, Hunter's
companion, were donated to the Library after his death in 1999. |
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One plastic bag |
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Box |
Series |
Folder |
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1 |
1 |
1-2 |
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1 |
2 |
1-6 |
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2 |
2 |
7-13 |
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3 |
2 |
14-20 |
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4 |
2 |
21-28 |
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5 |
2 |
29-34 |
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6 |
2 |
35-40 |
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7 |
2 |
41-48 |
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8 |
2 |
49-57 |
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9 |
2 |
58-64 |
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10 |
2 |
65-71 |
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11 |
2 |
72-76 |
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12 |
2 |
77-81 |
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13 |
2 |
81-84 |
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14 |
2 |
85-89 |
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15 |
2 |
90-94 |
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16 |
2 |
95-96 |
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16-22 |
3 |
Printed |
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23 |
4 |
1 |
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23 |
5 |
1-6 |
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24 |
5 |
7-13 |
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25 |
5 |
14-20 |
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26 |
5 |
21-27 |
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27 |
5 |
28-33 |
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28 |
5 |
34 |
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28 |
6 |
1-7 |
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29 |
6 |
8-12 |
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29 |
7 |
1-3 |
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30-31 |
7 |
Printed |
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31 |
8 |
Printed: Indian politics |
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31 |
9 |
Photographs |
June 1999 |