The Drover's Wife and the Drover's Daughter
Histories of Single Farming Women and Debates in Australian Historiography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12243907 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathryn Montgomery Hunter (0000-0002-6775-6190, Victoria University of Wellington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 179-194 |
| Publication date | 2001-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rural History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0956-7933 • E-ISSN: 1474-0656 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0956793300002430 |
| PMID | 19708285 |
| OpenAlex | W2096912743 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
In the 1980s two vigorous debates commanded the attention of economic and feminist historians alike, and they played a key part in shaping the historiography concerning rural women in Australia. One debate revolved around the use of the nineteenth-century census in determining women's occupations, including those of farming women. The other debate, part of a wider feminist conversation about women's agency, focused on the question of the nature of white women's lives within colonial families and society. Despite the centrality of rural women to these debates, and the role colonial women's histories played in shaping the historiography, these debates did not impact upon the writing of rural history in Australia. This article revisits these debates in the light of new research into the lives of never-married women on Australia's family farms and uses their histories to question the conclusions arrived at by feminist and economic historians. It also questions the continuing invisibility of rural women in histories of rural Australia and hopes to provoke more discussion between rural and feminist historians
Agency (philosophy · Colonialism · Historiography · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · White (mutation · Wife · Women's history · Australian History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Rural development and sustainability
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |