Single Mothers and Their Children : Disposal, Punishment and Survival in Australia
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in Australian History
ISBN-10
0521474434
ISBN-13
9780521474436
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 11th, 1995
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
554 grams
Dimensions
16.00 x 23.70 x 2.40 cms
Ksh 14,750.00
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This 1996 book is a powerful and moving history of the treatment of single mothers and their children in Australia. Covering the period from the 1850s through to 1975, when the legal status of illegitimacy was abolished, the authors explore continuity and change in areas such as infanticide, abortion, sex education and marriage.
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.
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