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Name	Joyce Stevens
Alternative Names	Joyce Barnes
Born	6 January, 1928 Cullen Bullen, New South Wales, Australia
Died	6 May, 2014 (aged 86) New South Wales, Australia
Related Entries	[View as tree] Mundey, Jack (friend)
Education *	North Sydney Girls High School (student, 1942-1943)
Occupation or Descriptor *	communist (1945-1991) New South Wales, Australia women's activist (1945-2014) New South Wales, Australia feminist (1968-2014) New South Wales, Australia historian (general) (1985-1991) New South Wales, Australia
Awards	Member of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1996) Edna Ryan Award (recipient, 2002)
Key Organisations *	Elsie Women's Refuge Night Shelter (Glebe, Sydney) (co-founder) Leichhardt Women’s Community Health Centre (Sydney) (co-founder) Australian Labor League of Youth (NSW) (member, 1941) Eureka Youth League (NSW) (organiser, 1948)
Political Activism *	anti-nuclear activist Vietnam war opponent Communist Party (NSW) (member, 1945-1991)
Workplaces *	Mejane (newspaper) (contributor) Scarlet Woman magazine (contributor) Tribune (Sydney) newspaper (contributor)

* Dates are approximate

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