Single Mothers and their Children: Disposal, Punishment and Survival in Australia (Studies in Australian History)
ISBN-13:
9780521474436
ISBN-10:
0521474434
Edition:
Revised
Author:
Shurlee Swain, Renate Howe
Publication date:
1996
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Format:
Hardcover
288 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780521474436
ISBN-10:
0521474434
Edition:
Revised
Author:
Shurlee Swain, Renate Howe
Publication date:
1996
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Format:
Hardcover
288 pages
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Single Mothers and their Children: Disposal, Punishment and Survival in Australia (Studies in Australian History) (ISBN-13: 9780521474436 and ISBN-10: 0521474434), written by authors
Shurlee Swain, Renate Howe, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1996.
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This is a powerful and moving history of single motherhood in Australia. It tells the story of these women and their children and the lives they constructed. The book covers the period from the 1850s, when abandonment and infanticide were not uncommon, to 1975, when the legal status of illegitimacy was abolished. While tracing profound changes over this period, the authors find much continuity. 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.
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