Australia Chicago (Ill.) Evanston (Ill.) Sydney (N.S.W.)
Fields of activity:
Australian poetry Feminism English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers Liberation theology Feminist theology
Occupations:
Poets Feminists Educators
Used for:
Grant, Marie, 1935-2015
Notes:
Her Women in a man's church, 1983: t.p. (Marie Tulip)
Sydney morning herald WWW site, viewed Feb. 19, 2016 (MARIE TULIP 1935-2015; poet, writer, academic and radical feminist; Marie Grant was born on March 12, 1935, in Mackay in North Queensland; in 1957 in Chicago she married fellow Queenslander Jim Tulip, who had been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Chicago; while Jim was working towards his PhD, Marie did a masters degree at Northwestern University and taught at Roosevelt University; back in Sydney she tutored for a year in the French Department at the University of Sydney then transferred to Macquarie University when it introduced a post-graduate diploma in the Teaching of English as a Second Language; largely responsible for the publication of the Outreach Texts, where special help was given to migrant women; became highly involved in the Women's Movement; taught courses in feminism and religion and became one of the warrior women of liberation theology; for many years she chaired the Commission on the Status of Women of the Australian Council of Churches; her book Knowing Otherwise: Feminism, Women and Religion (1991) written jointly with Erin White contributed to feminist theology in Australia)