Women of Eureka
Australian women have been systematically excluded from many narratives of national building and they have almost disappeared from some historical accounts. The historical record has been silent on the presence of women at Eureka, and this has often been taken to indicate that women were absent and the idea of women's invisibility at Eureka has thus been propagated. It was not until Laurel Johnson wrote about the Women of Eureka that they began to stir in our national memory when discussing the Eureka Affair. But still they were not deemed as an important facet in the image of nation building nor did they dovetail with the masculinist image of the rough and tumble goldfields. Corfield, Wickham and Gervasoni included them in The Eureka Encyclopaedia[1] Women were active in the protests surrounding Eureka.[2] Oral and written testament places women and children not only at the scene of the fracas on 3 December 1854 at the Eureka Stockade on the Eureka Lead but also inside the Eureka Stockade.[3]
Also See
Elizabeth Abbott; Sarah Hanmer;
References
- ↑ Corfield, Justin, et al, The Eureka Encyclopeadia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
- ↑ Dorothy Wickham. Women in 'Ballarat' 1851-1871: A Case Study in Agency, Volume 2, PhD, School of Behavioural and Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Ballarat, March 2008.
- ↑ Dorothy Wickham. Women in 'Ballarat' 1851-1871: A Case Study in Agency, Volume 2, PhD, School of Behavioural and Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Ballarat, March 2008.
