Depraved and disorderly : female convicts, sexuality and gender in colonial Australia.

Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Pr, 1997.

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Female offenders -- Australia -- History.

Colonies -- Law and legislation -- Australia -- History.

Women prisoners -- Sexual behavior -- Australia.

Introduction

Part One: Sexuality, punishment and resistance

1. Chaos and order: gender, space and sexuality on female convict ships

2. 'Depravity and disorder': the sexuality of convict women

3. Disrupting the boundaries: resistance and convict women

4. De-feminizing convict women: head-shaving as punishment in the female factories

Part Two: Family life and the convict system

5. Convict mothering

6. 'Wretchedness and Vice': The 'orphan' and the colonial imagination

7. Abandonment, flight and absence: motherhood and fatherhood during the 1820s and 1830s

Conclusion

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-210) and index.

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x, 221 p. ; 24 cm