Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia by Joy Damousi

Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia

Joy Damousi

232 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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This innovative book tells the powerful stories of convict women, while drawing out broader themes of gender and sexual disorder and race and class dynamics. It looks at the cultural meanings of aspects of life in the colony: on ships, in the fact...

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