| Description |
xxv, 302 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Controlling (hetero) sexuality: The implementation and operation of contagious diseases legislation in Australia, 1868-1945 / Kay Saunders -- Ch. 2. Understandings of justice: Australian rape and carnal knowledge cases, 1876-1924 / Jill Bavin-Mizzi -- Ch. 3. 'Lady friends' and 'sexual deviationists': Lesbians and law in Australia, 1920s-1950s / Ruth Ford -- Ch. 4. Reforming the law of rape: Incursions into the masculinist sanctum / Gail Mason -- Ch. 5. From stridency to silence: The policing of convict women, 1803-1853 / Lyndall Ryan -- Ch. 6. Legislating lunacy and the female lunatic body in nineteenth-century Victoria / Cathy Coleborne -- Ch. 7. Captives of their bodies: Women, law and punishment, 1880s-1980s / Susanne Davies -- Ch. 8. Australian colonial law and the construction of childhood: The example of Western Australia, 1829-1907 / Penelope Hetherington |
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Ch. 9. Aboriginal families and the law in the era of assimilation and segregation, 1890s-1950s / Peggy Brock -- Ch. 10. Marriage and divorce law before the Family Law Act 1975 / Hilary Golder and Diane Kirkby -- Ch. 11. Feminists and legal change in New South Wales, 1890-1916: Husbands, widows and 'family property' / Rosalind Atherton -- Ch. 12. Women as fringe dwellers of the jurisprudential community / Margaret Thornton -- Ch. 13. The state's education of women in nineteenth-century Australia / Marjorie Theobald and Carole Hooper -- Ch. 14. Women workers and the liberal state: Legal regulation of the workplace, 1880s-1980s / Rosemary Hunter -- Ch. 15. Legislating White Australia, 1900-1970 / Andrew Markus -- Ch. 16. Feminist challenges to White Australia, 1900-1930s / Fiona Paisley -- Ch. 17. Aliens, marginalised citizens and the Australian welfare state, 1945-1975 / Ann-Mari Jordens |
| Summary |
This book explores the history of gender bias in Australian law. It draws on the most recent scholarship in the historical research of law in Australia. The contributors present material of both contemporary and historical relevance as they offer new insights into the significance of the law over two centuries of Australia's history. It analyses the impact of the law on women; on legal constructions of gender and race; and on feminist campaigns to redress grievances |
| Analysis |
Civil liberties |
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Family law |
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Federal issue |
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History |
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Justice |
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Victims of crime |
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Women |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 286-295 |
| Subject |
Law -- Australia -- History.
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Sex and law -- Australia -- History.
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Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation -- Australia -- History.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Australia -- History.
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Women's rights -- Australia -- History.
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| Author |
Kirkby, Diane
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| LC no. |
95188300 |
| ISBN |
0195537343 |
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