Sex power and justice :
Sex power and justice : historical perspectives of law in Australia /
edited by Diane Kirkby.
- Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
- xxv, 302 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-295) and index.
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. 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.
0195537343 (pbk.)
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--History.--Australia
Sex and law--History.--Australia
Sex discrimination against women--Australia--History.--Law and legislation
346.9401/34
Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-295) and index.
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. 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.
0195537343 (pbk.)
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--History.--Australia
Sex and law--History.--Australia
Sex discrimination against women--Australia--History.--Law and legislation
346.9401/34
