Australian Childhood: A HistoryThis is a complete history of the experience of childhood in Australia. It explores changing patterns of child-rearing and schooling, the care of children, their games, toys and leisure, their work, distinctions based on class, gender and race. It deals with child poverty and health through history, and changing adult perceptions of childhood and adolescence. It is a readable social history of the hcild which also fills a gap in Australian historiography. |
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... marriage , the education of children , the transmission of knowledge at all stages of life , punishment and the rule of law . Moreover , all Aboriginal societies shared a cosmology which gave them equal rights and respon- sibilities ...
... marriage , the education of children , the transmission of knowledge at all stages of life , punishment and the rule of law . Moreover , all Aboriginal societies shared a cosmology which gave them equal rights and respon- sibilities ...
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... marriage rules . No child was ever alone , for each was surrounded by a galaxy of relatives not one of whom was solely responsible for the full - time care of any child . Mothers and younger children each day gathered the staple food ...
... marriage rules . No child was ever alone , for each was surrounded by a galaxy of relatives not one of whom was solely responsible for the full - time care of any child . Mothers and younger children each day gathered the staple food ...
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... marriage and participation in a money economy , this entailed a wholesale attack on indigenous oral tradition , culture and law . Some missionaries hoped that this dual religious and cultural conversion would follow almost automatically ...
... marriage and participation in a money economy , this entailed a wholesale attack on indigenous oral tradition , culture and law . Some missionaries hoped that this dual religious and cultural conversion would follow almost automatically ...
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... marriage , preferably to others of their race . Aboriginal families proved remarkably reluctant to give up their children to such a school , at least for any length of time . By 1820 the Institution had enrolled only 37 children , and ...
... marriage , preferably to others of their race . Aboriginal families proved remarkably reluctant to give up their children to such a school , at least for any length of time . By 1820 the Institution had enrolled only 37 children , and ...
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... marriage , sobriety and white population growth . In 1825 former Pacific missionary Lancelot Threlkeld established himself at Lake Macquarie , gateway to the atrocities occurring first on the Hunter and later on the Liverpool Plains ...
... marriage , sobriety and white population growth . In 1825 former Pacific missionary Lancelot Threlkeld established himself at Lake Macquarie , gateway to the atrocities occurring first on the Hunter and later on the Liverpool Plains ...
Contents
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nativeborn children of convicts | 38 |
children of the colonial elite | 55 |
children fathers and gold | 72 |
middleclass domestic ideology | 91 |
the street the factory | 112 |
medicalising middleclass childhood | 130 |
doctors psychologists and the unfit child | 148 |
childhood mass culture | 172 |
Decolonising childhood | 194 |
Infantilising adolescence | 216 |
Endnotes | 235 |
Select bibliography | 251 |
Index | 269 |
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