[PDF.59ws] Convict Maids: The Forced Migration of Women to Australia (Studies in Australian History)

Convict Maids: The Forced Migration of Women to Australia (Studies in Australian History)

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 | #3762058 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  1997-06-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.98 x.79 x5.98l,1.27 | File type: PDF | 352 pages

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||11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| Advance Australia More Fairly|By A Customer|This is a work of quantitative depth that redresses a series of alleged misconceptions about female convicts sent to Australia. Deborah Oxley argues that to understand Australia's socio-economic development one must first understand the nature of a large portion of its first settlers that has gone overlooked. She makes a convincing| |"The strength of Convict Maids is the sytematic quantification of the indents in chapters 2 through 6. Valuable information is provided on subgroups: English versus, Irish...valuable comparisons are made with the overall populations of England and Ireland."

Convict Maids looks at female convicts transported from Britain and Ireland to New South Wales between 1826 and 1840. Deborah Oxley refutes the notion that these women were prostitutes and criminals, arguing that in fact they helped put the colony on its feet. Analyzing their backgrounds, Oxley finds that they were skilled, literate, young and healthy--qualities exploited by the new colony. Convict Maids draws on historical, economic and feminist theory, and is impressiv...

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