WRITING THE HISTORY OF WOMEN AND WELFARE

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. See, for example, citations in: Saunders (1995 Saunders, Kay. 1995. From women's history to gender relations studies in Australia: The decade reviewed. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 41: 17–32. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar], 22); Twomey (1997 Twomey, Christina. 1997. Without natural protectors’: Responses to wife desertion in gold-rush Victoria. Australian Historical Studies, 28(108): 22–46. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar], 23); Henningham (2001 Henningham, Nikki. 2001. Hats off, gentlemen, to our Australian mothers!’: Representations of white femininity in North Queensland in the early twentieth century. Australian Historical Studies, 117: 311–21. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar], 312); Peel (2001 Peel, Dawn. 2001. Towards a history of old age in Australia. Australian Historical Studies, 117: 257–75. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar], 268, 269); Garton (2002 Garton, Stephen. 2002. The scales of suffering: Love, death and Victorian masculinity. Social History, 27(1): 40–58. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], 54); Gibson (2003 Gibson, D. 2003. Getting better will take some time: The effects of social policy on four generations of older women. Australian Feminist Studies, 18(41): 173–86. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], 173–86); Brown (2005, 1141); Coleborne (2006, 49). The key works referred to are: Grimshaw (1980 Grimshaw , Patricia . 1980 . Women and the family in Australian history: Feminist perspectives on Australia, 1788–1978 . In Women, class and history: Feminist perspectives on Australia , edited by Elizabeth Windschuttle . Sydney : Fontana/Collins . [Google Scholar], 1983 Grimshaw , Patricia . 1983 . The Australian family: An historical interpretation . In The family in the modern world: Australian perspectives , edited by Ailsa Burns , Gillian Bottomley and Penelope Jools . Sydney : Allen & Unwin . [Google Scholar], 1987a Grimshaw , Patricia . 1987a . ‘Man's own country’: Women in colonial Australian history . In Australian women: New feminist perspectives , edited by Norma Grieve and Ailsa Burns . Melbourne : Oxford University Press . [Google Scholar], b Grimshaw , Patricia . 1987b . Tasman sisters: Lives of the ‘second sex’ . In Tasman relations: New Zealand and Australia, 1788–1988 , edited by Keith Sinclair . Auckland : Auckland University Press . [Google Scholar], 1991 Grimshaw , Patricia . 1991 . Was biology destiny? Historical demography and white colonial women . Lilith 7 : 71 – 85 . [Google Scholar]); Grimshaw and Willett (1981 Grimshaw, Patricia and Graham, Willett. 1981. “Women's history and family history: An exploration of colonial family structure”. In Australian women: Feminist perspectives, Edited by: Grieve, Norma and Grimshaw, Patricia. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. [Google Scholar]); Grimshaw and Fahey (1985 Grimshaw , Patricia , and Charles Fahey . 1985 . Families and Community in Nineteenth-century Castlemaine . In Families in Colonial Australia , edited by Patricia Grimshaw , Chris McConville and Ellen McEwen . Sydney : Allen & Unwin . [Google Scholar]); and Beer et al. (1989).