Browsing Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework by subject "women"
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Balancing Binaries: Michelet, Woman and the Tightrope of History
Published 2012-11-01The Nineteenth Century romantic historian Jules Michelet remains one of the canons of French history and as such much has been written concerning both Michelet the man and his approach to history. This thesis seeks to ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
'Fighting My Way Through': Northern Rural Women in the American Civil War
Published 2012-11-01Rural women are almost entirely absent in the voluminous scholarship on the American Civil War. Yet women were more than volunteers and nurses during this conflict; they also worked the land, helping the North to achieve ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
“SEND ME A BONNET”: Colonial Connections, Class Consciousness and Sartorial Display in Colonial Australia, 1788-1850
Published 2012-11-01From the outset of British settler until the onset of the Gold Rush, many wealthy settler women in New South Wales sought to acquire clothing, not from local suppliers, but through family and friends residing in Britain ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
You Ain’t Woman Enough: Country Music and the Women’s Liberation Movement
Published 2018-01-30Country music is perceived and presented as an intrinsically conservative genre, built around the cultural paradigms that defined mid-20th Century American conservatism. Often centred around ideals of domesticity, labour ...Open AccessThesis, Honours