Double Time: Women In Victoria - 150 Years
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A landmark contribution to Australian social history, Double Time: Women in Victoria - 150 Years presents a richly layered account of women's lives in Victoria across a century and a half, unraveling the intricate web of public and private existence that shaped — and was shaped by — generations of women. Co-authored by historians Marilyn Lake and Farley Kelly, the book chronicles the roles women occupied in the home, the workforce, and the political arena, arguing compellingly that the story of Victoria cannot be told without centering the women who built it. From the struggles of early settlers to the battles for suffrage and beyond, it details the tensions between paid and unpaid labour, the dynamics of party politics, and the charged terrain of sexual politics with scholarly precision and narrative verve. Lake and Kelly bring to this work a feminist historical consciousness that reframes conventional Australian historiography, situating women not at the margins but at the very heart of the colonial and post-colonial experience. Their collaborative approach — drawing on a wide range of contributors — gives the text a rich, multivocal texture that honours the diversity of women's experience across class, race, and circumstance. Written with both rigour and accessibility, Double Time stands as essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the full, unabridged story of Victoria's past — and leaves the reader questioning just how much of that history has yet to be recovered.
Author: Marilyn Lake & Farley Kelly
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A landmark contribution to Australian social history, Double Time: Women in Victoria - 150 Years presents a richly layered account of women's lives in Victoria across a century and a half, unraveling the intricate web of public and private existence that shaped — and was shaped by — generations of women. Co-authored by historians Marilyn Lake and Farley Kelly, the book chronicles the roles women occupied in the home, the workforce, and the political arena, arguing compellingly that the story of Victoria cannot be told without centering the women who built it. From the struggles of early settlers to the battles for suffrage and beyond, it details the tensions between paid and unpaid labour, the dynamics of party politics, and the charged terrain of sexual politics with scholarly precision and narrative verve. Lake and Kelly bring to this work a feminist historical consciousness that reframes conventional Australian historiography, situating women not at the margins but at the very heart of the colonial and post-colonial experience. Their collaborative approach — drawing on a wide range of contributors — gives the text a rich, multivocal texture that honours the diversity of women's experience across class, race, and circumstance. Written with both rigour and accessibility, Double Time stands as essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the full, unabridged story of Victoria's past — and leaves the reader questioning just how much of that history has yet to be recovered.