Alistair Thomson
"I'm not a good mother -- not what Dr. Spock calls a â€˜slow motherâ€™ who leaves her chores to make sure junior gets the right treatment." (Dorothy Wright, 1961)Â ,"I must admit that I am no longer the same person who was tied to the kitchen sink at home." (Phyllis Cave, 1973) ,Â ,This book represents a unique collaboration between a historian and four ordinary women who were extraordinary letters-writers, family photographers and memoirists. As British migrants to Australia 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 married life. Taken together, their stories enrich and complicate our understanding of key themes in twentieth century womenâ€™s history.Â  ,This book will appeal to students and academics interested in British and Australian social history, oral history, womenâ€™s studies and the lived experience of migration.
History,Oral History
Moving Stories: An Intimate History of Four Women Across Two Countries