To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and ModernityOxford University Press, 30. avg. 2001 - 312 strani Between 1870 and 1940, tens of thousands of Australian women were drawn to London, their imperial metropolis and the center of the publishing, art, musical, theatrical, and educational worlds. Even more Australian women than men made the pilgrimage "home," seeking opportunities beyond those available to them in the Australian colonies or dominion. In tracing the experiences of these women, this volume reveals hitherto unexamined connections between whiteness, colonial status, gender, and modernity. |
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Gendered Space and Colonialism | 47 |
Australian Womens Neighborhoods Networks and Associations | 73 |
Australian Womens Metropolitan Activism and Commonwealth Feminism | 105 |
Constructing Colonial Imperial and National Identities | 139 |
6 Modernity Womens Bodies Womens Lives | 181 |
Conclusion | 207 |
Notes | 223 |
Bibliography | 265 |
Index | 283 |
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To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and Modernity Angela Woollacott Omejen predogled - 2001 |
To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and Modernity Angela Woollacott Omejen predogled - 2001 |
To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and Modernity Angela Woollacott Omejen predogled - 2001 |
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Priljubljeni odlomki
Stran 225 - David R. Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (London: Verso, 1991); Ruth Frankenberg, White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993);
Stran 252 - 6. EJ Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp.
Stran 218 - Do cultures actually exist as separate, pure, defensible entities? Is not melange, adulteration, impurity, pick'n'mix at the heart of the idea of the modern, and hasn't it been that way for most of this all-shook-up century?
Stran 109 - order and good government, we pledge ourselves, as citizens of the British Commonwealth of Nations, to maintain the heritage handed down to us by our fathers.
Stran 157 - traditions fail to bind. She is not shy Or bold, but simply self-possessed. Her independence adds a zest Unto her speech, her piquant jest, Her quaint reply.
Stran 12 - It is not merely that whiteness is oppressive and false; it is that whiteness is nothing but oppressive and false.
Stran 59 - The Australian Girl," "Her frank, clear eyes bespeak a mind / Old-world traditions fail to bind. / She is not shy / Or bold, but simply self-possessed.
Stran 232 - is Vron Ware, Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism and History (London: Verso, 1992).
Stran 34 - should be recognised as a more powerful, more complex, and more contested element in the historical, social and cultural memory of our glorious nation than has previously been supposed.