'Threatened People Don't Breed': The Maternal Strike in Australian Women's Writing 1920s to 1950

Authors

  • Nicole Moore The University of Queensland

Keywords:

Jean Devanney, Eleanor Dark, Barnard Eldershaw, maternity, birth control

Abstract

A discussion of novels by Jean Devanney, Eleanor Dark and Barnard Eldershaw in the context of the 'crisis' in birth rates and birth control of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Published

2013-01-24

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1996: Current Tensions: Proceedings of the 18th Annual conference 6-11 July 1996

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’Threatened People Don’t Breed’: The Maternal Strike in Australian Women’s Writing 1920s to 1950. (2013). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 252-261. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/9495