The White Chrysanthemum: Changing Images Of Australian Motherhood
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
From the tender rituals of the nursery to the fierce independence of women forging lives in the Australian bush, The White Chrysanthemum: Changing Images of Australian Motherhood presents a rich and resonant portrait of maternal experience across the centuries of Australian life. Selected by prominent Australian poet and folklorist Nancy Keesing, this anthology gathers an extraordinary range of voices — diary entries, fiction, poetry, and personal testimony — that together chronicle the evolving role of the mother in Australian society, from colonial hardship to modern domesticity. Keesing's curation is both scholarly and deeply human, illustrating how the ideals and realities of motherhood have been shaped by geography, class, culture, and time in ways uniquely Australian. The collection argues that the figure of the mother is not merely a private or domestic concern, but a lens through which an entire nation's values, anxieties, and aspirations can be read. Richly layered and thoughtfully assembled, this is a volume that will leave readers questioning just how much — or how little — the heart of Australian motherhood has truly changed.
Author: Nancy Keesing
Format: Hardback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
From the tender rituals of the nursery to the fierce independence of women forging lives in the Australian bush, The White Chrysanthemum: Changing Images of Australian Motherhood presents a rich and resonant portrait of maternal experience across the centuries of Australian life. Selected by prominent Australian poet and folklorist Nancy Keesing, this anthology gathers an extraordinary range of voices — diary entries, fiction, poetry, and personal testimony — that together chronicle the evolving role of the mother in Australian society, from colonial hardship to modern domesticity. Keesing's curation is both scholarly and deeply human, illustrating how the ideals and realities of motherhood have been shaped by geography, class, culture, and time in ways uniquely Australian. The collection argues that the figure of the mother is not merely a private or domestic concern, but a lens through which an entire nation's values, anxieties, and aspirations can be read. Richly layered and thoughtfully assembled, this is a volume that will leave readers questioning just how much — or how little — the heart of Australian motherhood has truly changed.