Kath Williams, who emerges as a feisty and quietly determined woman, was the major force behind the struggle for equal pay for women. She was elected as a delegate to attend conferences overseas and maintained her persistence for the cause with sheer hard -- almost unpaid -- work. With the increasing ignorance about history of any kind, history of this type is invaluable as it reaches back and pulls the protagonists forward into our time and helps us to understand that there is a long tradition of fighting for justice in Australia. Kath Williams will take her place as one of Australia's most important women. This book is clearly written and includes documentation and photographs from the period.

Zelda D'Aprano, a working-class woman at the forefront of the Women's Liberation Movement in Australia, shows, in her autobiography, the same raw spirit she evidenced when chaining herself to the Commonwealth Building in Melbourne to protest unequal pay on 21 October 1969. Worker, mother, trade unionist and activist, her painful memories always remind us that the personal is political. Zelda is a moving, down-to-earth recounting of the past, an insightful criticism of the way our society is structured and a reclamation of the exuberance of the Women's Liberation Movement. This is a book with no airs. Instead, it gives sharp opinions without expounding grand theories. The life of a remarkable woman who often battled alone for what women today take for granted.