Historical Reflections: Studies in Western Australian History 14 edited by Charlie Fox

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

A non-thematic issue that reflects the historical backgrounds of the contributors.

Contents:

1. Domestic help: daughters, servants and domestic work in Western Australia, 1900-1960 by Ruth Barton
2. Making a rural labour force: the intervention of the State in the working lives of Nyungars in the Great Southern, 1936-1948 by Sally Hodson
3. More than a minor nuisance: insanity in colonial Western Australia by Norman Megahey
4. Perth Modern School 1954: gender, self-esteem and academic achievement by Judy McColl
5. The birth and death of The Clinic: Ethel Stoneman and the State Psychology Clinic, 1927-1930 by Andrea Gaynor and Charlie Fox
6. 'An unnatural offence': sodomy in Western Australia from 1880 to 1900 by Jill Bavin-Mizzi
7. Punishment, prisons and reform: incarceration in Western Australia in the nineteenth century by Louise J Bavin
8. Protectors of the public?: medical orthodoxy and the suppression of alternative practice in Western Australia, 1870-1914 by Philippa Martyr