Forging Identities

by Long, Jane; Gothard, Jan; Brash, Helen

• ISBN13: 9781875560868
• ISBN10: 1875560866
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Uwa Pub

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface Dostoevsky's toothache: Body, selfhood and the historian
Introduction	p. 1
Sex and racism: Australia in the 1960s	p. 11
Staging 'white' Australia: Representations of race and sexuality in the North	p. 29
'She does up her hair fantastically': The production of femininity in patient case-books of the lunatic asylum in 1860s Victoria	p. 47
Identifying (with) a 'serious social evil': Deserted wives in mid-nineteenth-century Victoria	p. 69
Ocean baths and arc lights: Newcastle City Council and control on the beach	p. 88
Invading bodies: Gender and danger in nineteenth-century Newcastle upon Tyne	p. 111
'Being unwell': Menstruation in early twentieth-century Australia	p. 136
'Barmaids' and 'barmen': Sexing 'work' in Australia, 1870s-1940s	p. 161
Women's bodies, 1924-1926: A site for rural politics	p. 181
Illegitimacy and 'feeble-mindedness' in early twentieth-century New South Wales	p. 202
The inviolable woman: Feminist conceptions of citizenship in Australia, 1900-1945	p. 228
Notes on Contributors	p. 249
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