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Af Swain, Shurlee with Renate Howe

1. udgave fra 1995 på forlaget Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0-521-47443-4

Kategorier: Australien, Børn & forældre, Samfundsvidenskab

pris: 220 kr – stand: ★★★★★★

Vægt: 657 gram

264 s. Orig. shirting m. smudsomslag, 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. NYT EKSEMPLAR. (Saml.KvindeHist HRN)