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| Date of birth: |
1915 |
| Date of death: |
2000 |
| Biography: |
Born into a working-class Footscray family and state school educated, Jessica Mary 'Bon' Hull studied fashion design at Emily MacPherson College. Years working in the fashion industry were followed by a successful delicatessen business. Twice married with three sons, Hull's activism included founding the Women's Action Committee, the equal pay tram ride, the anti-Miss Victoria Quest demonstrations, Vietnam War protests and a subsequent prison sentence, organising the National Conference on Women in the Workforce and Trade Unions, instituting Melbourne's first Women's Liberation Centre, the Abortion Trust Fund and Melbourne Women's Health Collective memberships. The 1980s saw publication of Hull's 'In our own hands: a Women's Health Manual' and her initiation of a campaign to save the Queen Victoria Women's Hospital which resulted in the creation of the Queen Victoria Women's Centre in 1994. Hull died in 2000 and was posthumously inducted on the Victorian Women's Honour Roll in 2004.
This collection is No. 1 of the Victorian Women's Liberation and Lesbian Feminist Archive |
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Feminists |
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