Moving Stories: An Intimate History of Four Women Across Two Countries (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780719076466)

I'm not a good mother - not what Dr. Spock calls a "slow mother" who leaves her chores to make sure junior gets the right treatment. (Dorothy Wright, 1961) I must admit that I am no longer the same person who was tied to the kitchen sink at home. (Phyllis Cave, 1973) This book represents a unique collaboration between a historian and four ordinary women who were extraordinary letters-writers, family photographers and memoirists. As British migrants to Australia these women recorded in intimate detail aspects of everyday life and women's experience that are often lost to history: childcare and housework, housing and domestic appliances, friendship, family and married life. Taken together, their stories enrich and complicate our understanding of key themes in twentieth century women's history. This book will appeal to students and academics interested in British and Australian social history, oral history, women's studies and the lived experience of migration.

Author: Alistair Thomson
ISBN-10: 0719076463
ISBN-13: 9780719076466
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2011
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 10/01/2011 pg. 103