Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2023.2199043
P. Giles
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2023.2194336
B. Baird
In a context where cultural anxieties about children and young people regularly make headlines, Isobelle Barrett Meyering’s history of the ideas and practices of the children’s liberation movement in Australia in the 1970s is timely. She brings children’s liberation to our attention specifically through its presence in the Women’s Liberation Movement. Traces of the ideas of 1970s children’s liberation survive in the twenty-first century, in inspiring instances of political activism by children and young people. However, the formulation of notions of children’s rights through the radical ideas of Women’s Liberation has not been systematically recorded or remembered. The mutually constituting relationship between the two bodies of radical thought has been overlooked. Pronouncements like ‘Childhood is hell’ (1), made in 1971 by the influential US feminist writer Shulamith Firestone, and the slogan ‘Free Mum, Free Dad, Free Me, Free Child Care’, written on a banner held by children in the 1975 Sydney International Women’s Day rally, are exciting gems to retrieve from this period (57). The book draws from an archive of conference papers, feminist journals and books, government policy documents, children’s story books, personal papers and a handful of oral history interviews with key Women’s Liberationists who were motivated by the ideas of children’s liberation. After introducing key tenets of children’s liberation – which involves challenging hierarchical power relations between adults and children – the book is structured thematically. Chapter Two returns radical feminist thinking about the oppressive nature of the nuclear family to the history of childcare in the 1970s. Women’s Liberation contributed a unique perspective, one worth recalling as improving childcare these days is often justified only in terms of allowing women to participate in the workforce. Women’s Liberation mothers sought new modes of childcare at home as they monitored practices in existing childcare centres and established their own. Chapter Three discusses the multiple efforts made by feminists in response to the question ‘Are our schools sexist?’ (73). Feminists conducted research into educational practices, scrutinised children’s books and toys, wrote and published their own books, worked in unions and government, and were part of the
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2023.2202692
J. Lake, Kate Fullagar, Benjamin Mountford, E. Warne
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2023.2200802
Catherine Gay
Abstract Thousands of girls and young women migrated to Australia in the nineteenth century. Many were members of voluntary migrant families who were drawn to the colonies for new opportunities and a better life. Despite their numbers, these girls’ experiences of the journey have been little studied. This article examines several extant shipboard diaries, written by girls and young women aged from 10 to 22 who travelled from Britain and Ireland to Australia. These diaries, composed between 1851 and 1884, recount girls’ daily lives on board ship and lay bare their emotions as they journeyed towards a new life. Girls used writing and the physical form of a diary to work through and regulate the emotional upheavals and perils of migration. Graphite, ink and paper were employed to navigate loss, boredom, homesickness, fear and uncertainty. By centring girl-produced sources, this article gives voice to the often-overlooked migration experiences of girls and shows how analysis of age and gender draws attention to the emotions of migration.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2023.2194328
G. Davison
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