Women as Australian Citizens: Underlying Histories edited by Patricia Crawford and Philippa Maddern

Book Description

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

This challenging and original work problematises the concept of citizenship and the unstated assumptions infusing it. What does it mean to be a woman citizen in Australia today? Why have Australian women appeared so rarely in public political life, despite gaining the vote in 1901? Why has formal citizenship historically been analysed in primarily male terms? And how have women established different citizenship practices from those of men?

Women as Australian Citizens addresses these questions. It examines the long histories of citizenship for Australian women of various ethnic and cultural backgrounds, showing how gender, far from being irrelevant, has been central to constructions of the concept of citizenship. Hence citizenship has been masculinised, and women's citizenly activities marginalised. (back cover)