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Forging identities : bodies, gender, and feminist history / edited by Jane Long, Jan Gothard, Helen Brash.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, 1997.Description: xx, 251 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 1875560866
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4 21
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book 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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