Family Experiments: Middle-class, professional families in Australia and New Zealand c. 1880-1920

by Shelley Richardson

Family Experiments explores the forms and undertakings of 'family' that prevailed among British professionals who migrated to Australia and New Zealand in the late nineteenth century. Their attempts to establish and define 'family' in Australasian, suburban environments reveal how the Victorian theory of 'separate spheres' could take a variety of forms in the new world setting. The attitudes and assumptions that shaped these family experiments may...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1760460583
• ISBN13: 9781760460587
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Anu Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.2"