A Wealth of Women: Australian Women's Lives From 1788 to the Present by Alison Alexander with Prue Torney-Parlicki
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A Wealth of Women: Australian Women's Lives From 1788 to the Present by Alison Alexander with Prue Torney-Parlicki

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781876631093
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Author: Alison Alexander and Prue Torney-Parlicki
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Duffy & Snellgrove
Place: Sydney NSW
Year: 2001
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 300 pages
Period: 18th, 19th and 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned. Body text and binding are still very good. Dust jacket is in good condition with creasing and some minor tears to edges. Dust jacket is now enclosed in protective cover. Presentation copy with bookplate from Senator Amanda Vanstone.

Drawing on the lives of hundreds of real people, Alison Alexander has created a mosaic in which private and domestic matters are more important than the public affairs covered in most history books. It is the story of all sorts of people, from Indigenous women who watched the First Fleet arrive through the increasingly diverse experiences of later immigrants.

Their experiences contain humour and stoicism, tragedy and occasionally despair. The themes that emerge are of hard work and endurance. Until the 1870s, almost all women married and had an average of seven children. While the birthrate started to drop after that, the most significant changes in women's lives did not come until after the Second World War.

The book is enlivened with brief and sometimes funny stories of particular women's hopes and experiences. At the same time, a series of snapshots remind us of changes in particular areas of women's lives, from trimmed bonnets to jeans, from family roast to Asian takeaways. (book flap)

Commission by the Commonwealth Office of the Status of Women.

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