| Description |
xx, 251 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| 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 |
| Summary |
Annotation pending |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
McGrath, Frank
|
|
Body image -- Australia -- History.
|
|
Body image.
|
|
Feminist theory -- Australia.
|
|
Feminist theory.
|
|
Human body -- Social aspects -- Australia -- History.
|
|
Human body -- Social aspects.
|
|
Women -- Australia -- History.
|
|
Women -- Australia -- Social conditions.
|
| Author |
Brash, Helen, 1963-
|
|
Gothard, Jan.
|
|
Long, Jane, 1960-
|
| LC no. |
97162314 |
| ISBN |
1875560866 |
|
