Marie Tulip (12 March 1935 – 19 September 2015)[1][2] was an Australian feminist writer, academic and proponent for the ordination of women as priests.[3]

Early and family life

Born Marie Grant in Mackay, Queensland to parents Robert and Elspeth Grant, Tulip attended a Presbyterian church as a child.[1] Tulip attended boarding school in Brisbane and later, having received a scholarship, attended the University of Queensland where she studied Arts and achieved an Honours degree in French.[1] As an undergraduate, she participated in Australian Student Christian Movement gatherings with, among others, James (Jim) Tulip (who became Associate Professor of English and Lecturer in Divinity at the University of Sydney).[4][5][6] They married in Chicago in 1957.[1] They had four children and, by the time of her death in 2015, five grandchildren.[1]

Career

In Chicago, Tulip undertook a Master's degree at Northwestern University while also teaching at Roosevelt University.[1] Upon her return to Australia, Tulip tutored in the French Department at the University of Sydney and, after a year, transferred to Macquarie University where she produced a series of publications, Outreach Texts, in relation to the University's newly-formed Teaching English as a Second Language course.[1] She went on to teach courses in feminism and religion and published work in these fields.

In 1968, Tulip was a founder of Christian Women Concerned, the first explicitly religious feminist organisation to emerge in Australia.[7][8] The group published Magdalene, of which Tulip was the editor.[3]

In 1973, Tulip was appointed co-ordinator of the Australian Council of Churches (now the National Council of Churches in Australia) Commission on the Status of Women, an initiative of Jean Skuse. She was also a member of the National Women's Consultative Council, established in 1984.

Tulip's book Knowing otherwise: feminism, women & religion, was co-authored with Erin White and published in 1991. One reviewer, Margaret Heagney described the work as “a vital contribution to feminist scholarship in Australia”. [9]

Works

  • Hut Poems: 1978-1998 Cerberus Press, Glebe (NSW), 1999
  • Liberation theology and feminism (with Jean Skuse and Basil Moore), Australian Council of Churches, N.S.W. State Council, Commission on the Status of Women, 1975?[10]
  • Knowing Otherwise - Feminism, Women and Religion (with Erin White), David Lovell Publishing, Melbourne, 1991 ISBN 1-86355-005-4
  • Seven generations of a Queensland family : a memoir Glebe (NSW), 2004
  • Women in a Man's Church: Changes in the Status of Women in the Uniting Church in Australia, 1977-1983, Commission on the Status of Women of the Australian Council of Churches (NSW), ISBN 0-85821-039-8

Articles

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Marie TULIP's Obituary on The Sydney Morning Herald". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  2. ↑ "Marie Tulip highly involved in the Women's Movement in times of great social change". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  3. 1 2 Tulip, Marie; Occupation: Academic and Feminist theologian, Shurlee Swain (Australian Catholic University), The Encyclopedia Of Women & Leadership In Twentieth-Century Australia, accessed 21 September 2015
  4. ↑ Howe, Renate (2009). A century of influence : a history of the Australian Student Christian Movement 1896-1996. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press. p. 276. ISBN 978-1-921410-95-6. OCLC 307419245.
  5. ↑ Austlit. "Jim Tulip | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories". www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
  6. ↑ "University Archives Mediabank - The University of Sydney". www.sydney.edu.au. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
  7. ↑ Melbourne, The University of. "Christian Church Workers - Theme - The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia". www.womenaustralia.info. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
  8. ↑ McRae-McMahon, Dorothy (January 2007). "Christian Women Concerned". Women-Church: An Australian Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. 40: 17–21 – via Informit.
  9. ↑ Heagney, Margaret (1992). "Book Review: Knowing Otherwise: Feminism, Women and Religion". Pacifica: Australasian Theological Studies. 5 (1): 120–121. doi:10.1177/1030570x9200500119. ISSN 1030-570X.
  10. ↑ Liberation theology and feminism, National Library of Australia
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