Freedom Bound II: Documents on women in modern Australia

Freedom Bound II

Politics & Social Sciences

Holmes, Katie

Social Sciences

Routledge

Examining individual gardens, both public and private, this book illuminates the meaning and uses of gardens and gardening in Australia from white settlement to the late 20th century. Exploring memory and belonging, domestication and civilization, nationalism and identity, the themes are woven into a compelling narrative around gardens and landscape. The guide also explains how gardens have helped make meaning and home in a new place, enabled connections with the Australian environment or rejection of it, and facilitated the development of friendships and social connections.

Reading the Garden

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Martin, Sue

Mirmohamadi, Kylie

Gardening & Landscape Design

Melbourne University Publishing

Katie was a smart, young, independent woman who thought she knew where her life was headed. Until Calvin showed up. How could she have been so blind? How did a strong, independent woman end up married to an abuser? And better yet how is she going to get herself out.

Out of the Silence: A Survivor's Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

iUniverse

What do women write in their diaries? Do they reveal their innermost thoughts, their romantic hopes and fantasies, or do they fill their pages with domestic details? Why, in fact, do they write? In Spaces in Her Day, Katie Holmes uncovers the rich, private world of women's diaries. Australia in the 1920s and 1930s offered new possibilities to young women: paid work, motor cars, 'ready-to-wear' fashion and the promise of romance. Many women embraced these opportunities and confided to their diaries their dreams and fears. For other women, already burdened with domestic responsibilities, the endless demand of motherhood and housework consumed their time. In their diaries they might boast of tasks accomplished or take time to dream of quieter days. Spaces in Her Day tells the stories of these diaries and the women who wrote them. Katie Holmes brings to life the desires, loves and losses of women who took time to record what was important to them, who made a space in their day to preserve their words. The result is a fascinating exploration of what it was like to be a woman in Australia between the wars. We also discover why women wrote diaries and catch a tantalising glimpse of the secrets they disclosed.

Spaces in Her Day: Australian Women's Diaries, 1920s and 1930s

Allen& Unwin

Together with its companion volume, Freedom Bound I, which deals with the period of colonisation, this volume explores twentieth-century Australia and documents the dreams that inspired women, the pleasures and pain that informed their politics and the desires that enthralled them, even as they bade them to be free.

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