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Gender relations in Australia : domination and negotiation / edited by Kay Saunders and Raymond Evans.

Contributor(s): Saunders, Kay, 1947- | Evans, Raymond.
Publisher: Sydney : Harcourt, c1994Description: xxiv, 464 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0729512185.Subject(s): Women -- Australia -- Social conditions | Men -- Australia -- Social conditions | Sex role -- Australia -- History | Sexism -- Australia -- History | Australia -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 305.30994
Contents:
Section one: Gender and race relations: 1. From time immemorial? Gender relations in aboriginal societies before 'White Contact' - 2. Across the great divide: Gender relations on Australian frontiers - 3. Protection or persecution? Gender relations in the era of racial segregation - 4. A precious few: Melanesian and Asian women in Northern Australia - 5. Working for the man: Migrant women and multiculturalism -- Section two: Gender and reproductive relations: 6. So many children: Colonial and post-colonial demographic patterns - 7. Bending the bars: Convict women and the state - 8. Fertile grounds for divorce: Sexuality and reproductive imperatives - 9. No place like home: The evolution of the Australian housewife - 10. A gun in the oven: Masculinism and gendered violence -- Section three: Gender and productive relations: 11. Good strong girls: Colonial women and work - 12. Shifting barriers: Twentieth century women's labour patterns - 13. Inequality before the law: Gender, arbitration and wages - 14. Penny-Pinching activities: Managing poverty under the eye of welfare - 15. Inscribing matilda: Reconstructing the feminine in Australian women's literary production -- Section four: Gender and social struggle: 16. New dawns: First wave feminism 1880-1914 - 17. Marching to different drums: Women's mobilisations, 1914-1939 - 18. Girdled for war: Women's mobilisations in world war two.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section one: Gender and race relations: 1. From time immemorial? Gender relations in aboriginal societies before 'White Contact' - 2. Across the great divide: Gender relations on Australian frontiers - 3. Protection or persecution? Gender relations in the era of racial segregation - 4. A precious few: Melanesian and Asian women in Northern Australia - 5. Working for the man: Migrant women and multiculturalism -- Section two: Gender and reproductive relations: 6. So many children: Colonial and post-colonial demographic patterns - 7. Bending the bars: Convict women and the state - 8. Fertile grounds for divorce: Sexuality and reproductive imperatives - 9. No place like home: The evolution of the Australian housewife - 10. A gun in the oven: Masculinism and gendered violence -- Section three: Gender and productive relations: 11. Good strong girls: Colonial women and work - 12. Shifting barriers: Twentieth century women's labour patterns - 13. Inequality before the law: Gender, arbitration and wages - 14. Penny-Pinching activities: Managing poverty under the eye of welfare - 15. Inscribing matilda: Reconstructing the feminine in Australian women's literary production -- Section four: Gender and social struggle: 16. New dawns: First wave feminism 1880-1914 - 17. Marching to different drums: Women's mobilisations, 1914-1939 - 18. Girdled for war: Women's mobilisations in world war two.