This is a powerful and moving history of single motherhood in Australia. It tells the story of these women and their children and the lives they constructed. The book covers the period from the 1850s, when abandonment and infanticide were not uncommon, to 1975, when the legal status of illegitimacy was abolished. While tracing profound changes over this period, the authors find much continuity. The book covers issues of baby farming, infanticide, abortion, sex education, birth control, adoption and marriage, in effect becoming a history of sexual practice in Australia.
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"...Swain and Renate's findings are far-reaching and immediate." Patricia A. Washington, Jrnl of San Diego History
"...thorough account of single motherhood in Australia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.... ...Swain brings a sophisticated understanding of `lived experience' to her interpretations of the oral histories. She deftly situates interview data within a wealth of original quantitative data specific to Victoria and generates it for the purposes of this study...." Nancy D. Campbell, Journal of Women's History
"This book combines good history with impassioned political advocacy." Pacific Affairs
"...a useful, and, at times, powerful and moving contribution to our knowledge of the history of sexuality, motherhood and family life." Elizabeth Yeoman, Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering
"...thorough account of single motherhood in Australia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.... ...Swain brings a sophisticated understanding of `lived experience' to her interpretations of the oral histories. She deftly situates interview data within a wealth of original quantitative data specific to Victoria and generates it for the purposes of this study...." Nancy D. Campbell, Journal of Women's History
"This book combines good history with impassioned political advocacy." Pacific Affairs
"...a useful, and, at times, powerful and moving contribution to our knowledge of the history of sexuality, motherhood and family life." Elizabeth Yeoman, Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering
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A powerful and moving history of single motherhood in Australia tells the story of these women and their children and the lives they constructed. The book covers the period from the 1850s, when abandonment and infanticide were not uncommon, to 1975, when the legal status of illegitimacy was abolished.
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No formal licence is required to have a child in Australia, yet, for most of the last two hundred years, an equally effective informal sanctioning system has been in operation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
relinquishing mothers, facto husband, single pregnant women, charity records, compulsory period, facto relationship, maternity homes, maternity allowance, supporting mothers, villa suburbs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Women's Hospital, Mary Ann, Infant Asylum, Lying-in Hospital, Royal Commission, Memorial Home, New South Wales, Jessie Gallic, Kate Samperi, Deakin University Library, South Australia, Mintee Chitts, New Idea, New Zealand, Royal Park, Annie Morgan, Breaking the Neus, Elizabeth Eve, Emma Lonsdale, Judith Allen, Know Thy Child, Lavinia Morgan, Mary Stevens, Thomas Derbyshire New!
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No formal licence is required to have a child in Australia, yet, for most of the last two hundred years, an equally effective informal sanctioning system has been in operation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
relinquishing mothers, facto husband, single pregnant women, charity records, compulsory period, facto relationship, maternity homes, maternity allowance, supporting mothers, villa suburbs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Women's Hospital, Mary Ann, Infant Asylum, Lying-in Hospital, Royal Commission, Memorial Home, New South Wales, Jessie Gallic, Kate Samperi, Deakin University Library, South Australia, Mintee Chitts, New Idea, New Zealand, Royal Park, Annie Morgan, Breaking the Neus, Elizabeth Eve, Emma Lonsdale, Judith Allen, Know Thy Child, Lavinia Morgan, Mary Stevens, Thomas Derbyshire New!
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- Children in English Society (Routledge Library Editions) by Margaret Hewitt on 4 pages
- Out of Wedlock (McGraw-Hill Paperbacks) by Leontine R Young in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Social Control and the State: Historical and Comparative Essays by Stanley Cohen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- You are what you make yourself to be: The story of a Victorian Aboriginal family, 1842-1980 by Phillip Pepper in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Final report by South Australia in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare) by Joy Damousi in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-War Australia by Joy Damousi in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Sexual Pedagogies: Sex Education in Britain, Australia, and America, 1879-2000 by Claudia Nelson on page 51
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