Domestic Service in Australia - Hardcover
Synopsis
European Australia regularly contracted domestic service as a civilizing force, not only because it enabled a cultured life for the leisured employing classes but also because it facilitated the dissemination of bourgeois models of domesticity and encouraged fertility. This study is the first attempt to produce a comprehensive account of the lives of domestic servants in Australia and an interpretation of the significance of domestic service for the larger society and economy.
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About the Author
Barry Higman is the William Keith Hancock Professor of History at the Australian National University. He is a senior academic and the author of Slave Populations of the British Caribbean 1807-34 and Jamaica Surveyed Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, both of which won the Elsa Goveia Prize. He lives in Canberra, Australia.
Review
"This is a landmark study: an elegant history of the most significant form of employment for women in colonial Australia. It is a window to our past that has been closed far too long, and this rich and sensitive study reveals another world of domestic toil and private class relations. Janet McCalman
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- PublisherMelbourne University Publishing
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0522850111
- ISBN 13 9780522850116
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages304
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Domestic Service in Australia by B W Higman
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