Childhood and Society in Western Australia edited by Penelope Hetherington

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges.

Thirteen essays examining the experience of childhood in Western Australia. Some explore how adults tried to mould the environment of particular children. Others explore that difficult terrain between the present and past, a space illuminated by childhood memories. (back cover)

• Writing the History of Childhood in Western Australia by Penelope Hetherington
• Children of the Poor and Industrious Classes in Western Australia, 1829-1880 by Phyllis Garrick
• Jessie Viner's Childhood on the Peel by Carolyn Polizzotto
• Children of the Chief Protector: Some Nyungar Childhood Experiences During the Time of the Aborigines Act 1905-1929 by Patricia Baines and Lorna Hume
• The Struggle Against Forgetfulness: Childhood in the Novels of Randolph Stow by Veronica Stow
• The Experiences of Government Schooling in Western Australia circa 1896: A Reconstruction by Nolene Reeves
• Childhood and Environment in a Working Class Suburb of Perth 1900-1930 by Jennie Carter
• The Socialization of Middle-Class Children in a Perth Suburb 1910-1940 by Jenny Gregory
• A Surrogate Parent Approach to Child Emigration: The First Kingsley Fairbridge Farm School 1912-1924 by Mabel Creelman
• Preventing the Unfit From Breeding: The Mental Deficiency Bill in Western Australia 1929 by Moira Fitzpatrick
• Infant Mortality and Child-Saving: The Campaign of Women's Organizations in Western Australia 1900-1922 by Annette Davis
• Child Health in the Interwar Years 1920-1939 by Mary Anne O'Hara
• Early Childhood in Perth 1940-1945, From the Records of the Lady Gowrie Child Centre by Patricia Crawford.