Deserted and destitute : motherhood, wife desertion and colonial welfare / Christina Twomey
- Bib ID:
- 644982
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Twomey, Christina
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Kew., Victoria : Australian Scholarly Press, c2002
- xxiv, 201 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1740970101
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Part I
- 1 The Culture of Colonial Marriages
- Single mothers at court
- Husbands as defendants 17
- Criticising male behaviours 20
- 2 Colonial Women's Labours: Family and Community
- Networks in a New Society 27
- Family economies 35
- Illness 43
- Pregnancy 44
- 3 The 'Niggard Hand'? Poor Mothers and the Negotiation
- of Relief 47
- Outdoor relief 49
- Indoor relief 55
- Women as inmates 65
- 4 Courting Men: Destitute Mothers, Magistrates and Police 74
- The colonial courthouse 75
- Vagrants and prostitutes 81
- Part II 89
- 5 Public Voice, Private Charities 91
- Female charity workers 91
- Proposing change 103
- 6 Absent Fathers and Criminal Children: Deserted Wives
- and the Development of Welfare Policy 109
- The colonial magistracy 109
- Criminal children 117
- SReuniting the Family on the Land 128
- Deserted wives, the city and social order 131
- Resolving contradiction 134.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p.179-193.
- Subject:
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- Poor single mothers -- Services for -- Victoria -- History
- Poor women -- Services for -- Victoria -- History
- Women colonists -- Victoria -- Social conditions
- Desertion and non-support -- Victoria -- History
- Low-income single mothers - Services for - Victoria - History
- Poor women - Services for - Victoria - History
- Women colonists - Victoria - Social conditions
- Desertion and non-support - Victoria - History
- Also Titled:
- Motherhood, wife desertion and colonial welfare
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