An exploration of what it means to be a female citizen in Australia. The authors show how women from different backgrounds, have, over centuries, rewritten their own citizenship. They argue that the legacies of these historical debates underlie understandings of modern Australian citizenship.
xii, 284 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. #120222
1. Founding fathers: Federation the ‘grand experiment’ / Philippa Maddern
2. Origins of the normative citizen: body, household, kingdom and cosmos in the Middle Ages / Philippa Maddern
3. Women and citizenship in Britain 1500-1800 / Patricia Crawford
4. Charting the landscape of ‘progress’: women in nineteenth-century Britain / Jane Long
5. Women and citizenship in colonial Australia / Rita Farrell
6. Feminism, racism and citizenship in twentieth-century Australia / Joan Eveline
7. Anglo-centrism in multicultural Australia / Cheryl Lange.
Women’s rights — Australia. | Feminism — Australia — History. | Women — Australia. | Women — Australia — Social conditions.
Women as Australian Citizens: Underlying Histories
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Additional Information
| Author | Crawford, Patricia (ed), and Maddern, Philippa (ed) |
|---|---|
| Number of pages | xii, 284 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press |
| Year Published | 2001 |
| Binding Type | Softcover |
|---|---|
| Book Condition | Fine |
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