Title: Forging identities : bodies, gender, and feminist history /
Authors: Long, Jane, 1960-; Gothard, Jan.; Brash, Helen, 1963-
Publisher: University of Western Australia Press,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Human body Social aspects Australia History.; Women Australia History.; Body image Australia History.; Feminist theory Australia.
Contents: pt. 1. Transgressing boundaries : sexuality, race and identity. Sex and racism : Australia in the 1960's / Ann Curthoys ; Staging "white" Australia : representations of race and sexuality in the North / Catriona Elder -- pt. 2. Dangerous landscapes : discipline, control and resistance. "She does up her hair fantastically" : the production of femininity in patient case-books of the lunatic asylum in 1860's Victoria / Cathy Coleborne ; Identifying (with) a "serious social evil" : deserted wives in mid-nineteenth century Victoria / Christina Twomey ; Ocean baths and arc lights : Newcastle City Council and control on the beach / Nancy Cushing ; Invading bodies : gender and danger in nineteenth-century Newcastle upon Tyne / Jane Long -- pt. 3. The manufacture of gender : the nature of work and the work of nature. "Being unwell" : menstruation in early twentieth-century Australia / Suellen Murray ; "barmaids" and "barmen" : sexing "work" in Australia, 1870's-1940's / Diane Kirkby ; Women's bodies, 1924-1926 : a site for rural politics / Heather Gunn -- pt. 4. Body politics, state and citizen. Illegitimacy and "feeble-mindedness" in early twentieth-century New South Wales / Rosemary Berreen ; The inviolable woman : feminist conceptions of citizenship in Australia, 1900-1945 / Marilyn Lake.