| Description |
xxiv, 464 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
From time immemorial? : gender relations in Aboriginal societies before 'white contact' / Nancy M. Williams and Lesley Jolly -- Across the great divide : gender relations on Australian frontiers / Mary Anne Jebb and Anna Haebich -- Protection or persecution? : gender relations in the era of racial segregation / Jackie Huggins and Thom Blake -- A precious few : Melanesian and Asian women in northern Australia / Clive Moore -- Working for the man : migrant women and multiculturalism / Marie de Lepervanche -- So many children : colonial and post-colonial demographic patterns / Gordon A. Carmichael -- Bending the bars : convict women and the state / Marian Aveling -- Fertile grounds for divorce : sexuality and reproductive imperatives / Renate Howe and Shurlee Swain -- No place like home : the evolution of the Australian housewife / Raymond Evans and Kay Saunders -- A gun in the oven : masculinism and gendered violence / Raymond Evans -- Good strong girls : colonial women and work / Margaret Anderson -- Shifting barriers : twentieth century women's labour patterns / Raelene Frances -- Inequality before the law : gender, arbitration and wages / Jocelynne A. Scutt -- Penny-pinching activities : managing poverty under the eye of welfare / Patricia Harris -- Inscribing Matilda : reconstructing the feminine in Australian women's literary production / Carole Ferrier -- New dawns : first wave feminism, 1880-1914 / Katie Spearritt -- Marching to different drums : women's mobilisations, 1914-1939 / Joy Damousi -- Girdled for war : women's mobilisations in World War Two / Kay Saunders and Geoffrey Bolton -- Aboriginal women are everywhere : contemporary struggles / Heather Goodall and Jackie Huggins -- Doing it for themselves : the women's movement since 1970 / Ann Curthoys |
| Summary |
Comprehensive text which explores the themes of gender, race and class relations, family life, work, education, social conflict and culture in the lives of Australian women from pre-settlement times to the present; essays by Mary Anne Jebb and Anna Haebich, Nancy Williams and Lesley Jolly, Heather Goodall and Jackie Huggins, Jackie Huggins and Thom Blake are annotated separately |
| Analysis |
Demography |
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Domestic violence |
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Feminism |
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Multiculturalism |
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Race relations |
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Sex role |
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Social change |
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Social conditions |
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Statistics |
| Notes |
For tertiary students |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Men -- Australia -- Social conditions.
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Race relations -- Australia -- History.
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Sex role -- Australia -- History.
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Sex role -- Australia.
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Sexism -- Australia -- History.
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Sexism -- Australia.
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Women -- Australia -- Social conditions.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- Australia.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Food supply -- Australia.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Australia.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Race relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100476 -- History.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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Australia -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100476
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Australia -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114311
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| Author |
Evans, Raymond.
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Saunders, Kay, 1947-
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| LC no. |
93138347 |
| ISBN |
0729512185 (paperback) |
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