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Minding her own business : colonial businesswomen in Sydney / Catherine Bishop.

By: Publisher: Sydney, NSW NewSouth Publishing, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: xiii, 302 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some colour), map, portraits (some colour) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781742234328
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 650.1082 23
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Contents:
1. The ties that bind -- 2. Invisible stitching -- 3. Educating women -- 4. Boarding houses, brothels and bars -- 5. Butchers and bakers and confectionery makers -- 6. Entertaining women -- 7. When needs must -- 8. Flighty females -- 9. Not just pin money.
Summary: A history that populates the streets of colonial Sydney with entrepreneurial businesswomen earning their living in a variety of small - and sometimes surprising - enterprises. There are few memorials to colonial businesswomen, but if you know where to look you can find many traces of their presence as you wander the streets of Sydney. From milliners and dressmakers to ironmongers and booksellers; from publicans and boarding-house keepers to butchers and taxidermists; from school teachers to ginger-beer manufacturers: these women have been hidden in the historical record but were visible to their contemporaries. Catherine Bishop brings the stories of these entrepreneurial women to life, with fascinating details of their successes and failures, their determination and wilfulness, their achievements, their tragedies and the occasional juicy scandal. Until now we have imagined colonial women indoors as wives, and mothers, domestic servants or prostitutes. This book sets them firmly out in the open.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library 650.1082 BIS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 67504

Scheduled to be published October 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-273) and index.

1. The ties that bind -- 2. Invisible stitching -- 3. Educating women -- 4. Boarding houses, brothels and bars -- 5. Butchers and bakers and confectionery makers -- 6. Entertaining women -- 7. When needs must -- 8. Flighty females -- 9. Not just pin money.

A history that populates the streets of colonial Sydney with entrepreneurial businesswomen earning their living in a variety of small - and sometimes surprising - enterprises. There are few memorials to colonial businesswomen, but if you know where to look you can find many traces of their presence as you wander the streets of Sydney. From milliners and dressmakers to ironmongers and booksellers; from publicans and boarding-house keepers to butchers and taxidermists; from school teachers to ginger-beer manufacturers: these women have been hidden in the historical record but were visible to their contemporaries. Catherine Bishop brings the stories of these entrepreneurial women to life, with fascinating details of their successes and failures, their determination and wilfulness, their achievements, their tragedies and the occasional juicy scandal. Until now we have imagined colonial women indoors as wives, and mothers, domestic servants or prostitutes. This book sets them firmly out in the open.

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