On the edge : women's experiences of Queensland /
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 distinctiv...
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| Natura: | Libro |
| Lingua: | English |
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St. Lucia, Qld., Australia :
University of Queensland Press,
1994.
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| Serie: | Studies in Australian history (St. Lucia, Qld.)
UQP studies in Australian history |
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Sommario:
- 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.