Joy Damousi

Depraved and Disorderly

Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia

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Produktbeschreibung

This innovative book looks at the cultural meanings of aspects of convict women's lives in colonial society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9780521587235
• ISBN-10: 0521587239
• Artikelnr.: 21799011

Autorenporträt

Joy Damousi is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. She has had a long-standing interest in Australian political history, beginning with her first book published twenty years ago on women in left-wing movements, Women Come Rally: Socialism, communism and gender in Australia 1890-1955 (1994). Since then she has written on various aspects of the politics and impact of war, migration and internationalism throughout the Cold War period. Her books include Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-war Australia (2001), Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia (2005) and Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia 1840-1940 (2010). She is co-editor of Diversity in Leadership: Australian Women, Past and Present (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Sexuality, Resistance and Punishment: 1. Chaos and order: gender, space and sexuality on female convict ships
2. Depraved and disorderly: the sexuality of convict women
3. Disrupting the boundaries: resistance and convict women
4. Defeminising convict women: headshaving as punishment in the female factories
Part II. Familt Life and Convictism: 5. Convict mothering
6. Wretchedness and vice: the 'orphan' and the colonial imagination
7. Abandonment, flight and absence: motherhood and fatherhood during the 1820s and 1830s
Conclusion.