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SINGLE MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN
DISPOSAL, PUNISHMENT AND SURVIVAL IN AUSTRALIA |
| By: |
Shurlee Swain, Renate Howe |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£79.00 |
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£69.13 |
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£9.87 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521474434 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521474436 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
11 December, 1995 |
| Series: |
Studies in Australian History No. 20 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
This 1996 book is a powerful and moving history of the treatment of single mothers and their children in Australia. |
| Synopsis: |
This 1996 book is a comprehensive history of single motherhood in Australia. Shurlee Swain and Renate Howe tell the powerful, if painful and often moving, story of these women and their children and the lives they constructed. Starting in the 1850s when abandonment and infanticide were not uncommon, the book's main focus ends in 1975 when the legal status of illegitimacy was abolished. 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. While tracing profound changes from a time when single mothers were locked in gaol for discarding their babies to the establishment of state benefits, the authors find a good deal of continuity over the period. This book makes an important contribution to social, welfare and women's history in Australia. |
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11 b/w illus. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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