Title Spinifex and hessian : women's lives in North-Western Australia 1860-1900 / Susan Jane Hunt

Published Nedlands, W.A. : University of W.A. Press, 1986

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
MELB	305.4209941 Hun/Sah		AVAILABLE

Description x, 168 pages : illustrations, map, facsimiles, portraits ; 22 cm Series Western Australian experience series, 0815-9513 Western Australian experience series. Contents Includes: Chapter 1: The North: A Man's World; Chapter 2: Uncomfortable but prospering landed and respectable women; Chapter 3: At the Bar and in the Kitchen: The White Working class; Aboriginal women and colonial development; Chapter 5: Japanese prostitution Summary Includes chapter on Aboriginal women; labour, conditions, remuneration, abuse; several case studies Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 152-159 Notes Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection Copy 3: Donated by ATSIC Library Subject Burges, Lockier Clere, 1841-1929 Scholl, Robert Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Western Australia -- 19th century. Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Western Australia. Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Western Australia -- North West Region Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Western Australia. Women -- Western Australia -- History Women -- Australia -- Western Australia -- History -- 19th century. Women -- Australia -- Western Australia -- History. Women -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Social conditions. Women -- Australia -- Western Australia -- 19th century. Women -- Australia -- Western Australia -- North West Region -- History -- 19th century LC no. 85564242 ISBN 0855642424

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