Political Arithmetic: The Nineteenth-Century Australian Census and the Construction of the Dependent Woman

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Previous articleNext article No AccessPolitical Arithmetic: The Nineteenth-Century Australian Census and the Construction of the Dependent WomanDesley DeaconDesley Deacon Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 11, Number 1Autumn, 1985 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/494198 Views: 20Total views on this site Citations: 31Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1985 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Margo Anderson The History of “The Politics of Population” in the United States, (Apr 2022): 367–385.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75460-0_20Valerie Kay, Charles Livingstone A socioecological discourse of care or an economistic discourse: which fits better with transition?, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 45, no.11 (Feb 2021): 71–79.https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.13070Ben Huf Averages, indexes and national income: accounting for progress in colonial Australia, Accounting History Review 30, no.11 (Oct 2019): 7–43.https://doi.org/10.1080/21552851.2019.1670220Hannah Forsyth Reconsidering Women's Role in the Professionalisation of the Economy: Evidence from the Australian Census 1881–1947, Australian Economic History Review 59, no.11 (Apr 2018): 55–79.https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12147Helen Proctor, Ashleigh Driscoll Bureaucratic governance, family economies and the 1930s NSW teachers’ marriage bar, Australia, Journal of Educational Administration and History 49, no.22 (Feb 2017): 157–170.https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2017.1284768Theresa Wobbe Making up People : classification des statistiques professionnelles, catégorisation des sexes et inclusion économique autour de 1900 en Allemagne, Trivium , no.1919 (Mar 2015).https://doi.org/10.4000/trivium.5068Catherine Bishop When Your Money Is Not Your Own: Coverture and Married Women In Business in Colonial New South Wales, Law and History Review 33, no.11 (Feb 2015): 181–200.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0738248014000510Colin Danby Postwar Norm, Rethinking Marxism 24, no.44 (Oct 2012): 499–515.https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2012.711052Pavla Miller Do Australian Teenagers Work? 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