{{short description|Australian feminist (1935–2015)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}} {{Use Australian English|date=October 2016}}
'''Marie Tulip''' (12 March 1935 – 19 September 2015)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/smh-au/obituary.aspx?n=marie-tulip&pid=175888511|title=Marie TULIP's Obituary on The Sydney Morning Herald|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=2018-06-20}}</ref><ref name="obit">{{cite web|title=Marie Tulip highly involved in the Women's Movement in times of great social change|url=https://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/marie-tulip-highly-involved-in-the-womens-movement-in-times-of-great-social-change-20160210-gmr2pz.html|website=Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=10 August 2017}}</ref> was an Australian feminist writer, academic and proponent for the ordination of women as priests.<ref name="EWLTCA">[http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0457b.htm 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</ref>
== Early and family life == Born Marie Grant in Mackay, Queensland to parents Robert and Elspeth Grant, Tulip attended a Presbyterian church as a child.<ref name=":0" /> 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.<ref name=":0" /> 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).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Howe|first=Renate|title=A century of influence : a history of the Australian Student Christian Movement 1896-1996|date=2009|publisher=University of New South Wales Press|isbn=978-1-921410-95-6|location=Sydney|pages=276|oclc=307419245}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Austlit|title=Jim Tulip {{!}} AustLit: Discover Australian Stories|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A12984|access-date=2021-03-13|website=www.austlit.edu.au|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=University Archives Mediabank - The University of Sydney|url=https://www.sydney.edu.au/arms/archives/media/me_objects/7997|access-date=2021-03-13|website=www.sydney.edu.au}}</ref> They married in Chicago in 1957.<ref name=":0" /> They had four children and, by the time of her death in 2015, five grandchildren.<ref name=":0" />
== Career == In Chicago, Tulip undertook a Master's degree at Northwestern University while also teaching at Roosevelt University.<ref name=":0" /> 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.<ref name=":0" /> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Melbourne|first=The University of|title=Christian Church Workers - Theme - The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia|url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0033b.htm|access-date=2021-03-13|website=www.womenaustralia.info|language=en-gb}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=McRae-McMahon|first=Dorothy|date=January 2007|title=Christian Women Concerned|url=https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/ielapa.200709486|journal=Women-Church: An Australian Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion|volume=40|pages=17–21|via=Informit}}</ref> The group published ''Magdalene'', of which Tulip was the editor.<ref name="EWLTCA" />
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”. <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Heagney |first=Margaret |date=1992 |title=Book Review: Knowing Otherwise: Feminism, Women and Religion |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1030570X9200500119 |journal=Pacifica: Australasian Theological Studies |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=120–121 |doi=10.1177/1030570x9200500119 |issn=1030-570X|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
== Select publications == {{Refbegin}} * {{Cite book |last=Tulip|first=Marie|display-authors=0 | author-link= Marie Tulip |title=Hut Poems: 1978–1998|publisher =Cerberus Press|place= Glebe (NSW)|date= 1999}} * {{Cite book | last1=Tulip|first1=Marie | author1-link= Marie Tulip |title= Liberation theology and feminism|author2-link =Jean Skuse| last2=Skuse | first2= Jean | first3= Basil|last3= Moore|publisher =Australian Council of Churches, N.S.W. State Council, Commission on the Status of Women|date=c. 1975| url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2771176 }} * {{Cite book | last1=Tulip|first1=Marie | author1-link= Marie Tulip |title= Knowing Otherwise: Feminism, Women and Religion | author2-link =Erin White (feminist theologian)|first2=Erin |last2=White|publisher =David Lovell Publishing|place= Melbourne|date= 1991 |isbn=1-86355-005-4}} * {{Cite book |last=Tulip|first=Marie | author-link= Marie Tulip| title=Seven generations of a Queensland family: a memoir|place= Glebe (NSW)|date= 2004}} * {{Cite book |last=Tulip|first=Marie|display-authors=0 | author-link= Marie Tulip|title=Women in a Man's Church: Changes in the Status of Women in the Uniting Church in Australia, 1977–1983|date=1983 |publisher =Commission on the Status of Women of the Australian Council of Churches (NSW)|isbn=0-85821-039-8}} {{Refend}} === Articles === {{Refbegin}} * {{Cite journal|last=Tulip|first=Marie| display-authors=0 | author-link= Marie Tulip |date=1987|title= Dimensions of Feminist Theology in Australia|journal=Women-Church: Australian Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion|volume= 1 |pages=[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.35210469?seq=4 4–9] |jstor=community.35210469| jstor-access=free }} [https://www.jstor.org/site/university-of-divinity/ JSTOR University of Divinity Digital Collections], Mannix Library. * {{Cite journal|last=Tulip|first=Marie|display-authors=0 | author-link= Marie Tulip |title= Women's Spirituality|journal=Women-Church: Australian Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion |volume= 5 |date=1989|pages= [https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.35210482?seq=23 23–28] |jstor= community.35210482 | jstor-access=free}} [https://www.jstor.org/site/university-of-divinity/ JSTOR University of Divinity Digital Collections], Mannix Library. * {{Cite journal|last=Tulip|first=Marie|display-authors=0 | author-link= Marie Tulip |title= Feminism and the Bible|journal=Women-Church: Australian Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion |volume= 8 |date=1991|pages= [https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.35210499?seq=32 30–35] |jstor= community.35210499 | jstor-access=free}} [https://www.jstor.org/site/university-of-divinity/ JSTOR University of Divinity Digital Collections], Mannix Library. {{Refend}}
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * [https://www.jstor.org/site/university-of-divinity/magdalene/ Magdalene on JSTOR Open Community Collections], [https://www.jstor.org/site/university-of-divinity/ University of Divinity Digital Collections], Mannix Library. * [https://www.womenpriests.org/related/rose_07.asp The Ecumenical Movement Awakening Women] * {{Australian Women and Leadership|WLE0457b|Tulip, Marie}}
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