Forging identities : bodies, gender, and feminist history / edited by Jane Long, Jan Gothard, Helen Brash.
Publication details: Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, 1997.Description: xx, 251 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:- 1875560866
- 306.4 21
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library | 306.4 FOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library | 62870 |
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface Dostoevsky's toothache: Body, selfhood and the historian / Phyllis Mack -- Introduction / Jane Long, Jan Gothard and Helen Brash -- Sex and racism: Australia in the 1960s / Ann Curthoys -- Staging 'white' Australia: Representations of race and sexuality in the North / Catriona Elder -- 'She does up her hair fantastically': The production of femininity in patient case-books of the lunatic asylum in 1860s Victoria / Cathy Coleborne -- Identifying (with) a 'serious social evil': Deserted wives in mid-nineteenth-century Victoria / Christina Twomey -- Ocean baths and arc lights: Newcastle City Council and control on the beach / Nancy Cushing -- Invading bodies: Gender and danger in nineteenth-century Newcastle upon Tyne / Jane Long -- 'Being unwell': Menstruation in early twentieth-century Australia / Suellen Murray -- 'Barmaids' and 'barmen': Sexing 'work' in Australia, 1870s-1940s / Diane Kirkby -- Women's bodies, 1924-1926: A site for rural politics / Heather Gunn.
Illegitimacy and 'feeble-mindedness' in early twentieth-century New South Wales / Rosemary Berreen -- The inviolable woman: Feminist conceptions of citizenship in Australia, 1900-1945 / Marilyn Lake.
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