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Title On the edge : women's experiences of Queensland / edited by Gail Reekie
Published St. Lucia, Qld., Australia : University of Queensland Press, 1994

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 W'PONDS  994.30082 Ree/Ote  AVAILABLE
Description xii, 280 pages ; 22 cm
Series UQP studies in Australian history
UQP studies in Australian history.
Contents 1. Women, Region and the "Queensland Difference" / Gail Reekie -- 2. Searching for Queensland Women's History at the John Oxley Library / Gail Reekie -- 3. Naming Queensland Women's History: A Bibliographic Essay / Gail Reekie -- 4. "A Great Deal Too Good for the Bush": Women and the Experience of Dress in Queensland / Margaret Maynard -- 5. The Sexual Economics of Colonial Marriage / Katie Spearritt -- 6. "Raising an Interrogatory Eyebrow": Women's Responses to the Infant Welfare Movement in Queensland, 1918-1939 / Windy Selby -- 7. "On the Bitumen and Off the Bitumen": Women and the YWCA in the Lockyer Valley, 1935-1940 / Aline Gillespie -- 8. War Mobilisation: A Matter of Geography / Helen Taylor -- 9. Felicitous Space: Refiguring the Relations of Identity, Home and Community in Regional Writing / Kay Ferres -- 10. Verandahs and Frangipani: Women in the Queensland House / Jennifer Craik -- 11. Speaking from the Warm Zone / Gillian Whitlock
12. The "Tasty Morsel" Case: Sexual Harassment in Queensland / Jennifer Mahon -- 13. Rape Crisis Services in Queensland / Ros Mills and Rob Duffield
Summary On the Edge: Women's Experiences of Queensland is the first-ever specific study of Queensland women. It brings together the work of several of the state's foremost feminist scholars, who use a number of perspectives - historical, literary, cultural and political - to explore the distinctive experiences of women in Queensland. Subjects covered include the sexual economics of colonial marriage, the YWCA travelling caravan and women's war mobilisation. Contemporary issues affecting Queensland women such as sexual harassment legislation and rape crisis service provision are also discussed. On the Edge investigates the important question of how best to bring together feminism and regionalism, and restores to the women of Queensland their history
Analysis Queensland (Australia) Social conditions
Women Australia Queensland History
Women Australia Queensland Social conditions
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-270) and index
Subject Women -- Australia -- Queensland -- History.
Women -- Australia -- Queensland -- Social conditions.
Women -- Australia -- Queensland -- Social conditons
SUBJECT Queensland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004089 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850
Queensland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004089 -- Social conditons
Author Reekie, Gail.
LC no. 94123276
ISBN 0702224618