Title To try her fortune in London : Australian women, colonialism, and modernity / Angela Woollacott

Published New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001

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Description 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents 1. Australian Women's Voyages "Home": White Colonialness, Privilege, and Modernity -- 2. Inhabiting the Metropolis: Gendered Space and Colonialism -- 3. Colonizing London: Australian Women's Neighborhoods, Networks, and Associations -- 4. Contesting (Colonial) Men's Imperial Power: Australian Women's Metropolitan Activism and Commonwealth Feminism -- 5. Metropolis as Crucible: Constructing Colonial, Imperial, and National Identities -- 6. Modernity, Women's Bodies, Women's Lives Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Women -- Australia -- Social conditions. Women -- England -- London -- Social conditions. Australians -- England -- London. SUBJECT Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Colonial influence. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005253 London (England) -- History -- 1800-1950. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078210 United Kingdom -- Colonies. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056632 ISBN 0195147197 paperback 0195142683 hardback

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