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Single Mothers and their Children: Disposal, Punishment and Survival in Australia - Studies in Australian History
Swain, Shurlee (University of Melbourne)
Single Mothers and their Children: Disposal, Punishment and Survival in Australia - Studies in Australian History
Swain, Shurlee (University of Melbourne)
This 1996 book is a powerful and moving history of the treatment of single mothers and their children in Australia. Covering the period from the 1850s through to 1975, when the legal status of illegitimacy was abolished, the authors explore continuity and change in areas such as infanticide, abortion, sex education and marriage.
288 pages, 11 b/w illus.
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | December 11, 1995 |
ISBN13 | 9780521474436 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 17 mm · 665 g |