208 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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Over generations, Australian women have envisaged a world of freedom. This new collection of documents - letters, diary extracts, poems, public speeches - charts the visions that inspired women and the obstacles that confronted them. Dealing with a period from colonisation to early Federation in 1901, Freedom Bound I shows how intertwined were women's public and personal lives, and how bound by... Read more
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Part 1 Women in convict society 1788-1840
Part 2 Women in a masculine democracy 1840-1860
Part 3 Frontiers - rural and urban 1860-1885
Part 4 Seeking social solutions 1886-1901
Notes
Select bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Part 1 Women in convict society 1788-1840
Part 2 Women in a masculine democracy 1840-1860
Part 3 Frontiers - rural and urban 1860-1885
Part 4 Seeking social solutions 1886-1901
Notes
Select bibliography
Index
Biography
Patricia Grimshaw is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne; Susan Janson is assistant editor of Australian Historical Studies, and Marian Quartly is Dean of Arts at Monash University, Melbourne. Grimshaw and Quartly are co-authors (with Marilyn Lake and Ann McGrath) of Creating a Nation (1994), and Janson is co-editor (with Stuart Macintyre) of Through White Eyes (1990).
