To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and Modernity

Portada
Oxford University Press, 30 d’ag. 2001 - 312 pàgines
Between 1870 and 1940, tens of thousands of Australian women were drawn to London, their imperial metropolis and the center of the publishing, art, musical, theatrical, and educational worlds. Even more Australian women than men made the pilgrimage "home," seeking opportunities beyond those available to them in the Australian colonies or dominion. In tracing the experiences of these women, this volume reveals hitherto unexamined connections between whiteness, colonial status, gender, and modernity.
 

Continguts

Introduction
3
White Colonialness Privilege and Modernity
19
Gendered Space and Colonialism
47
Australian Womens Neighborhoods Networks and Associations
73
Australian Womens Metropolitan Activism and Commonwealth Feminism
105
Constructing Colonial Imperial and National Identities
139
6 Modernity Womens Bodies Womens Lives
181
Conclusion
207
Notes
223
Bibliography
265
Index
283
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Sobre l'autor (2001)

Angela Woolacott is the author of Settler Society in the Australian Colonies: Self-Government and Imperial Culture which made the Queensland Literary Awards 2015 shortlist in the History category.

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