| Description |
xxiv, 267 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. The politics of respectability: Identifying the masculinist context / Marilyn Lake -- 2. The Feminist Legend: A new historicism? / John Docker -- 3. A redivision of labour: Women and wage regulation in Victoria 1896-1903 / Jenny Lee -- 4. 'Knocking out a living': Survival strategies and popular protest in the 1890s depression / Bruce Scates -- 5. Reorganising the masculinist context: Conflicting masculinisms in the New South Wales Public Service Bill debates of 1895 / Desley Deacon -- 6. The sexual politics of selling and shopping / Gail Reekie -- 7. Domestic dilemmas: Representations of servants and employers in the popular press / Paula Hamilton -- 8. Sexual labour: Australia 1880-1910 / Susan Magarey -- 9. The 'equals and comrades of men'?: Tocsin and 'the woman question' / Patricia Grimshaw -- 10. The Woman's Voice on sexuality / Susan Sheridan -- 11. Reproducing Empire: Exploring ideologies of gender and race on Australia's Pacific frontier / Claudia Knapman |
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12. Sovereignty and sexual identity in political cartoons / Josie Castle and Helen Pringle -- 13. 'Woman' in federation poetry / Barbara Holloway -- 14. The New Woman and the Corning Man: Gender and genre in the 'lost-race' romance / Robert Dixon -- 15. Water, gold and honey: A discussion of Kirkham's Find / Dorothy Jones -- 16. Things a bushwoman cannot do / Sue Rowley -- 17. Henry Lawson, the drover's wife and the critics / Kay Schaffer |
| Analysis |
Feminism |
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History |
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Sex discrimination |
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Women |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-257) and index |
| Subject |
Feminism -- Australia -- History.
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Feminism -- Australia.
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Women -- Australia -- History -- 19th century.
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Women -- Australia -- History.
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Women -- Australia -- 19th century.
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| Author |
Magarey, Susan.
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Rowley, Sue, 1948-
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Sheridan, Susan, 1944-
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| LC no. |
93172666 |
| ISBN |
1863732969 |
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