Gender Relations in Australia: Domination and NegotiationKay Saunders, Raymond Evans Presents a range of interpretations by 24 academics of Australian gender relations from pre-1788 to the present. Essays by contributors such as Jocelynne Scutt, Marian Aveliny and Ann Curthoys, explore themes of race, class, family life and social conflict. Contains references and an index. The editors are readers in history at the University of Queensland. |
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... moral behaviour ' ( Dick- ey , 1980 : 22 ) . Women , as the guardians of their household's morality , bore the burden of demonstrating deservedness according to bourgeois moral norms ( Summers , 1975 ) . - Roe ( 1988 : 2 ) maintains ...
... moral behaviour ' ( Dick- ey , 1980 : 22 ) . Women , as the guardians of their household's morality , bore the burden of demonstrating deservedness according to bourgeois moral norms ( Summers , 1975 ) . - Roe ( 1988 : 2 ) maintains ...
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... moral reform were as important an element in social control as was legal coercion . The Evan- gelicals , in founding philanthropic institutions which provided shelter and aid for the poor , thereby exercised a controlling moral suasion ...
... moral reform were as important an element in social control as was legal coercion . The Evan- gelicals , in founding philanthropic institutions which provided shelter and aid for the poor , thereby exercised a controlling moral suasion ...
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... moral values upon society . Feminists naively inter- nalised the social stereotypes of ' God's Police ' and ' Damned ... moral rhetoric of middle - class policing of the working class , especially working- class women and children . The ...
... moral values upon society . Feminists naively inter- nalised the social stereotypes of ' God's Police ' and ' Damned ... moral rhetoric of middle - class policing of the working class , especially working- class women and children . The ...
Contents
FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL? | 9 |
ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE | 20 |
Locating Gender at the Racial Margins | 26 |
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