Women of Eureka

Australian women have been systematically excluded from many narratives of national building and they have almost disappeared from some historical accounts. 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

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