Good and mad women : the historical construction of femininity in twentieth-century Australia
by Jill Julius Matthews
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Good and Mad Women attempts to map the sociological patterns which have affected the lives of women in Australia over the past century. The author maintains that through the processes of the economy, ideology and social management, an ideal of the good woman was forged. But the ideal has been internally contradictory. True femininity is ultimately unattainable. The pathos of this failure for individual women is traced in the case notes of a group of women admitted to a psychiatric hospital show more between 1930 and 1975. show lessTags
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- 305.4 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Women
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- HQ1822 .M35 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
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