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SECOND HAND BOOK
The result of a unique collaboration between a historian and four ordinary British women who migrated to Australia during the 1960s and ’70s, Moving Stories explores the stories we make of our lives through letters, photographs, life writing and oral history.
Phyllis, Gwen, Joan and Dorothy were extraordinary letter writers, family photographers and memoirists. In this evocative book, Alistair Thomson skillfully tells their life stories, illuminating the forgotten history of women’s lives before the advent of feminism.
As housewives, working mothers and adventurous travellers, 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 marries life, migration and mobility. Taken together, their stories enrich and complicate our understanding of key themes in twentieth-century women’s history.
Specifications:
Condition: Good. Some general wear. Original price sticker still attached. Slightly yellowed pages.
Publisher: UNSW Press
Year: 2011
Format: Paperback
Pages: 344
ISBN: 9781742232782
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