DARWIN Book Launch: 'Step by Step: Women of East Timor' Jude Conway

Sunday, May 16, 2010 - 18:00 to 20:00

Book launch of "Step by Step: Women of East Timor, Stories of Resistance and Survival" edited by Jude
Conway.

Deckchair Cinema- (End of Jervois Road, off Kitchener Drive, Wharf Precinct, Darwin)

The backbone of East Timor's struggle for Independence was the determination, courage and untiring work of its women. Jude Conway's book brings together the stories of thirteen of these women. They tell in their own way what life was like, from the days of Portuguese colonialism, the Indonesian invasion and occupation, the diaspora and eventual Independence.

These women often started their work in their teens, organized food, health care and education for others as well as married and had children, and became leaders in all areas of post-Independence society.