- Paperback: 308 pages
- Publisher: OUP USA (13 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0195147197
- ISBN-13: 978-0195147193
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 16.2 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,588,403 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Woollacott's comprehensive study provides rich evidence that a newfound freedom and mobility allowed ambitious Australian women to have an influence in London disproportionate to their number, and this work will prove an influential contribution to our understanding of London, imperialism and the Australian abroad. (Urban History )
This book is an important contribution to a growing literature on the international dimensions of the Australian women's movement, as well as the recent interest in relationships within the British Empire/Commonwealth. (American Historical Review )
This book is an important contribution to a growing literature on the international dimensions of the Australian women's movement, as well as the recent interest in relationships within the British Empire/Commonwealth. (American Historical Review )
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This book is the first study to consider white colonials as part of the colonial presence at the heart of the empire. Between 1870 and 1940 tens of thousands of Australian women were drawn to London, their imperial metropolis and the center of the publishing, art, theatrical, and educational worlds. Even more Australian women than men made the pilgrimage "home," seeking opportunities and possibilities beyond those available to them in Australian colonies or dominion. Through this lens, Woolacott explores hitherto unexamined connections between whitenss, colonial status, gender and modernity.
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Australian women viewed and reconstructed their own status in the British Empire through the knowledge they gleaned of the empire's constituent parts on their passages "home," as they often called England. Read the first page
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Great book. The index is useful as i found the info I needed very easily.
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Needs Work, But Interesting Subject
7 May 2009
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I've only read some of the first chapter, but it has already made me frustrated with the way Woollacott expresses her ideas.
In her writing she:
- States the obvious, sometimes twice in a row
- Relies on ready-made, rigidly academic terms
- Has little eye for the subtleties of the situations she describes (she seems to need to fit everything into a framework that makes perfect logical sense. But this makes her writing hollow and way too rigid for me to feel like I'm really learning anything)
- Her examples and quotations don't say much
The best part of the chapter was the introduction, which mainly consisted of insights and used few to no academic terms. I gave the book three stars because I obviously don't have the full picture from reading so little.
In her writing she:
- States the obvious, sometimes twice in a row
- Relies on ready-made, rigidly academic terms
- Has little eye for the subtleties of the situations she describes (she seems to need to fit everything into a framework that makes perfect logical sense. But this makes her writing hollow and way too rigid for me to feel like I'm really learning anything)
- Her examples and quotations don't say much
The best part of the chapter was the introduction, which mainly consisted of insights and used few to no academic terms. I gave the book three stars because I obviously don't have the full picture from reading so little.
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