Colonial Eve: Sources On Women In Australia 1788–1914
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What was life truly like for women who built a nation from the ground up? Colonial Eve: Sources on Women in Australia 1788–1914 presents a rich and illuminating anthology of primary sources that chronicles the lives, voices, and experiences of women across more than a century of Australian colonial and early Federation history. Drawing on diaries, letters, official records, and contemporary accounts, this carefully curated collection edited by Ruth Teale brings to the foreground the stories of convicts, settlers, Aboriginal women, domestic workers, and social reformers — women who have too often been written out of the official historical record. The span of dates, from the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 to the eve of the First World War in 1914, captures Australia's most transformative period of social and political change. Teale's editorial vision is both scholarly and humane, organising the sources thematically to illuminate recurring tensions of gender, class, race, and labour within the colonial context. The collection stands as a foundational text in Australian women's history and gender studies, instrumental in shaping the field when it was first published by Oxford University Press. Its significance lies not only in the breadth of material gathered but in the argument it quietly and powerfully makes — that women were not peripheral to the colonial project, but central to it. Whether you are a student of history, a researcher, or a curious reader, Colonial Eve opens a window onto lives that shaped a continent, leaving you to wonder how many more voices remain yet to be heard.
Author: Ruth Teale
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What was life truly like for women who built a nation from the ground up? Colonial Eve: Sources on Women in Australia 1788–1914 presents a rich and illuminating anthology of primary sources that chronicles the lives, voices, and experiences of women across more than a century of Australian colonial and early Federation history. Drawing on diaries, letters, official records, and contemporary accounts, this carefully curated collection edited by Ruth Teale brings to the foreground the stories of convicts, settlers, Aboriginal women, domestic workers, and social reformers — women who have too often been written out of the official historical record. The span of dates, from the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 to the eve of the First World War in 1914, captures Australia's most transformative period of social and political change. Teale's editorial vision is both scholarly and humane, organising the sources thematically to illuminate recurring tensions of gender, class, race, and labour within the colonial context. The collection stands as a foundational text in Australian women's history and gender studies, instrumental in shaping the field when it was first published by Oxford University Press. Its significance lies not only in the breadth of material gathered but in the argument it quietly and powerfully makes — that women were not peripheral to the colonial project, but central to it. Whether you are a student of history, a researcher, or a curious reader, Colonial Eve opens a window onto lives that shaped a continent, leaving you to wonder how many more voices remain yet to be heard.