Journal article
Challenging gender stereotypes in Queensland's Callide Valley: settlers, patriarchy and environment
History Australia, Vol.18(1), pp.70-93
2021
Abstract
This article explores the intersection of gender, race, environment and economics in a specific spatial and temporal case study - the Callide Valley, central Queensland, in the 1920s and 1930s. Government propaganda focused on the ideal male settler and his agricultural labour for the settlement's success. Women were assigned a supportive role, although family survival and the agricultural industry depended on their work beyond the home. Yet, rather than challenge the patriarchal myths that underpinned the closer settlement's legal and administrative system, female labour paradoxically helped sustain them.
Details
- Title
- Challenging gender stereotypes in Queensland's Callide Valley: settlers, patriarchy and environment
- Authors
- Margaret Cook (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Social Sciences - Legacy
- Publication details
- History Australia, Vol.18(1), pp.70-93
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Australasia
- Date published
- 2021
- DOI
- 10.1080/14490854.2021.1878911
- ISSN
- 1833-4881
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Sustainability Research Centre; School of Law and Society; School of Social Sciences - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99511208002621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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