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Author : Eileen Haley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Memories of an Australian Girlhood written by Eileen Haley and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mrs. Campbell Praed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book My Australian Girlhood written by Mrs. Campbell Praed and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522857477
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)
Download or read book My Father's Daughter written by Sheila Fitzpatrick and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a daughter tell the story of her father? Sheila Fitzpatrick was taught from an early age to question authority. She learnt it from her father, the journalist and radical historian Brian Fitzpatrick. But very soon, she began to turn her questioning gaze on him. Teasing apart the many layers of memory, Fitzpatrick reveals a complex portrait of an Australian family against a Cold War backdrop. As her relationship with her father fades from girlhood adoration to adolescent scepticism, she flees Melbourne for Oxford to start a new life. But it's not so easy to escape being her father's daughter. My Father's Daughter is a vivid evocation of an Australian childhood; a personal memoir told with the piercing insight of a historian.
Author : Jennifer Helgren
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813547040
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Girlhood written by Jennifer Helgren and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girlhood, interdisciplinary and global in source, scope, and methodology, examines the centrality of girlhood in shaping women's lives. Scholars study how age and gender, along with a multitude of other identities, work together to influence the historical experience. Spanning a broad time frame from 1750 to the present, essays illuminate the various continuities and differences in girls' lives across culture and region--girls on all continents except Antarctica are represented. Case studies and essays are arranged thematically to encourage comparisons between girls' experiences in diverse locales, and to assess how girls were affected by historical developments such as colonialism, political repression, war, modernization, shifts in labor markets, migrations, and the rise of consumer culture.
Author : Rosa Caroline Murray-Prior "Mrs. Campbell Praed. " Praed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book My Australian Girlhood, Sketches and Impressions of Bush Life written by Rosa Caroline Murray-Prior "Mrs. Campbell Praed. " Praed and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melissa Febos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635572533
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Girlhood written by Melissa Febos and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Critics Circle Award Winner National Bestseller Lambda Literary Award Finalist NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME * NPR * The Washington Post * Kirkus Reviews * Washington Independent Review of Books * The Millions * Electric Literature * Ms Magazine * Entropy Magazine * Largehearted Boy * Passerbuys “Irreverent and original.” –New York Times “Magisterial.” –The New Yorker “An intoxicating writer.” –The Atlantic “A classic!” –Mary Karr “A true light in the dark.” –Stephanie Danler “An essential, heartbreaking project.” –Carmen Maria Machado A gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and brilliant guide to transforming the self and our society. In her powerful new book, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be female and what it takes to free oneself from them. When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. Over time, Febos increasingly questioned the stories she'd been told about herself and the habits and defenses she'd developed over years of trying to meet others' expectations. The values she and so many other women had learned in girlhood did not prioritize their personal safety, happiness, or freedom, and she set out to reframe those values and beliefs. Blending investigative reporting, memoir, and scholarship, Febos charts how she and others like her have reimagined relationships and made room for the anger, grief, power, and pleasure women have long been taught to deny. Written with Febos' characteristic precision, lyricism, and insight, Girlhood is a philosophical treatise, an anthem for women, and a searing study of the transitions into and away from girlhood, toward a chosen self.
Author : Martyn Lyons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Australian Readers Remember written by Martyn Lyons and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work of cultural history is based on the authors' investigation into the reading habits of 60 elderly Australians. The first survey of its kind, it is the first literary history of Australia (from 1890 to 1930) to be based on readers' attitudes and experiences.
Author : David McCooey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521567909
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Artful Histories written by David McCooey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important contribution to our understanding of autobiography, its history and the Australian experience.
Author : Doug Munro
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 176046144X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Clio’s Lives written by Doug Munro and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2017-10-09 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including contributions from leading scholars in the field from both Australia and North America, this collection explores diverse approaches to writing the lives of historians and ways of assessing the importance of doing so. Beginning with the writing of autobiographies by historians, the volume then turns to biographical studies, both of historians whose writings were in some sense nation-defining and those who may be regarded as having had a major influence on defining the discipline of history. The final section explores elements of collective biography, linking these to the formation of historical networks. A concluding essay by Barbara Caine offers a critical appraisal of the study of historians’ biographies and autobiographies to date, and maps out likely new directions for future work. Clio’s Lives is a very good scholarly collection that advances the study of autobiography and biography within the writing of history itself, taking theoretical questions in significant new directions. The contributors are well known and highly respected in the history profession and write with an insight and intellectual energy that will ensure the book has considerable impact. They examine cutting-edge issues about the writing of history at the personal level through autobiography and biography in diverse and innovative ways. Together the writers have provided reflective chapters that will be widely read for their impressive theoretical advances as well as being inspirational for new entrants to the disciplinary area. — Patricia Grimshaw, University of Melbourne Clio’s Lives brings together a most interesting and varied cast of contributors. Its chapters contain sophisticated and well-penned ruminations on the uses of biography and autobiography among historians. These are clearly connected with the general themes of the volume. This delightfully mixed bag makes very good reading and, as well, will serve as a substantial contribution to the study of the biography and autobiography. — Eric Richards, Flinders University
Author : Catherine Driscoll
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317040899
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience written by Catherine Driscoll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience offers a detailed analysis of the experience and the image of Australian country girlhood. In Australia, 'country girl' names a field of experiences and life-stories by girls and women who have grown up outside of the demographically dominant urban centres. But it also names a set of ideas about Australia that is surprisingly consistent across the long twentieth century despite also working as an index of changing times. For a long period in Australian history, well before Federation and long after it, public and popular culture openly equated 'Australian character' with rural life. This image of Australian-ness sometimes went by the name of the 'bush man', now a staple of Australian history. This has been counterbalanced post World War II and increased immigration, by an image of sophisticated Australian modernity located in multicultural cities. These images of Australia balance rather than contradict one another in many ways and the more cosmopolitan image of Australia is often in dialogue with that preceding image of 'the bush'. This book does not offer a corrective to the story of Australian national identity but rather a fresh perspective on this history and a new focus on the ever-changing experience of Australian rural life. It argues that the country girl has not only been a long-standing counterpart to the Australian bush man she has, more importantly, figured as a point of dialogue between the country and the city for popular culture and for public sphere narratives about Australian society and identity.
Author : Martyn Lyons
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780702232343
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (323 download)
Download or read book A History of the Book in Australia, 1891-1945 written by Martyn Lyons and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays and case studies outlining Australian book production and consumption, from the 1880s to the end of World War II. Explores all aspects of print culture including authorship, editing, design and printing, publication, distribution, bookselling, libraries and reading habits. Includes photos, contributor notes, bibliography and index. Two further books in the 'A History of the Book in Australia' project are planned. Lyons is Professor of History at the University of New South Wales. He has previously written (with Lucy Taksa) 'Australian Readers Remember'. Arnold is Deputy Director of the National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University. He has previously co-edited the 'Biography of Australian Literature: A-E'.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1654 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Truth written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : K. Moruzi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137356359
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 written by K. Moruzi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 explores a range of real and fictional colonial girlhood experiences from Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Australia, England, Ireland, and Canada to reflect on the transitional state of girlhood between childhood and adulthood.
Author : Bronwyn Lowe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351008102
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book ‘The Right Thing to Read’ written by Bronwyn Lowe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The Right Thing to Read’: A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960 explores the reading habits, identity, and construction of femininity of Australian girls aged between ten and fourteen from 1910 to 1960. It investigates changing notions of Australian girlhood across the period, and explores the ways that parents, teachers, educators, journalists and politicians attempted to mitigate concerns about girls’ development through the promotion of ‘healthy’ literature. The book also addresses the influence of British publishers to Australian girl-readers and the growing importance of Australian publishers throughout the period. It considers the rise of Australian literary nationalism in the global context, and the increasing prominence of Australian literature in the period after the Second World War. It also shows how access to reading material improved for girls over the first half of the last century.
Author : Lorinda Cramer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350069639
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Needlework and Women’s Identity in Colonial Australia written by Lorinda Cramer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In gold-rush Australia, social identity was in flux: gold promised access to fashionable new clothes, a grand home, and the goods to furnish it, but could not buy gentility. Needlework and Women's Identity in Colonial Australia explores how the wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters who migrated to the newly formed colony of Victoria used their needle skills as a powerful claim to social standing. Focusing on one of women's most common daily tasks, the book examines how needlework's practice and products were vital in the contest for social position in the turmoil of the first two decades of the Victorian rush from 1851. Placing women firmly at the center of colonial history, it explores how the needle became a tool for stitching together identity. From decorative needlework to household making and mending, women's sewing was a vehicle for establishing, asserting, and maintaining social status. Interdisciplinary in scope, Needlework and Women's Identity in Colonial Australia draws on material culture, written primary sources, and pictorial evidence, to create a rich portrait of the objects and manners that defined genteel goldfields living. Giving voice to women's experiences and positioning them as key players in the fabric of gold-rush society, this volume offers a fresh critical perspective on gender and textile history.
Author : Kay Walsh
Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 : 9780642107947
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Australian Autobiographical Narratives written by Kay Walsh and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian Autobiographical Narratives Volume 2 and its partner Volume 1 provide researchers with detailed annotations of published Australian autobiographical writing. Both volumes are a rich resource of the European settlement of Australia. Theis selection concentrates on the post-gold rush period, providing portraits of 533 individuals, from amateur explorers to politicians, from pioneer settlers to sportsmen. Like Volume 1, it offers an intimate and absorbing insight into nineteenth-century Australia.
Author : Patricia Grimshaw
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100094932X
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Freedom Bound 1 written by Patricia Grimshaw and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over generations, Australian women have envisaged a world of freedom. This new collection of documents - letters, diary extracts, poems, public speeches - charts the visions that inspired women and the obstacles that confronted them. Dealing with a period from colonisation to early Federation in 1901, Freedom Bound I shows how intertwined were women's public and personal lives, and how bound by custom, ties, affection and duties. The different meanings of freedom have been shaped by the nature of women's oppression, their quests given focus by their different points of departure. Convict women protested - often violently - at the indignities they endured; Aboriginal women protested at the cruelty of the frontier and the paternalism of the mission; and white middle-class women demanded the freedom to participate in the public world. Together with its companion volume, Freedom Bound II, which deals with the twentieth century, this volume documents the dreams that inspired women, the pleasures and pain that informed their politics and the desires that enthralled them, even as they bade them to be free. It is an essential resource for students and teachers of Australian women's history.
