'I am directed to remind you of your duty to your familyrsquo;: Public surveillance of mothering in Victoria, Australia, 1920-40

Women's History Review

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 247-259

  Shurlee, Swain ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD WELFARE; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FAMILY HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTORY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AUSTRALIA; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY; FAMILY HEALTH; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PARENTING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 34247288795     PISSN: 09612025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09612029900200210     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. G. Behlmer (1982) Child Abuse and Moral Reform in England, 1870-1908, p. 78 (Stanford: Stanford University Press).
2. I refer here to such SPCC historians as Behlmer, Child Abuse and Moral Reform;
3. L. Gordon (1989) Heroes of Their Own Lives (London: Virago);
4. L. Rose (1991) The Erosion of Childhood: child oppression in Britain 1860-1918 (London: Routledge)
5. and H. Hendrick (1994) Child Welfare England, 1872-1989 (London: Routledge).
6. K Reiger (1985) The Disenchantment of the Home: modernizing the Australian family 1880-1940 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press).
7. Hendrick, Child Welfare, p. 181;
8. Gordon, Heroes of Their Own Lives, p. 21.
9. Behlmer, Child Abuse and Moral Reform, p. 193;
10. J. Donzelot (1979) The Policing of Families, p. 83 (New York: Pantheon).
11. H. Hendrick (1990) Constructions and reconstructions of British childhood, in A James & A Prout (Eds) Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood: contemporary issues in the sociological study of childhood, p. 49 (London: Falmer Press).
12. R. van Krieken (1992) Children and the State: social control and the formation of Australian child welfare, p. 113 (Sydney: Allen & Unwin).
13. N. Rose (1985) The Psychological Complex: psychology, politics and society in England 1869-1939, ch. 6 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul).
14. Reiger, Disenchantment of the Home, p. 153.
15. Rose, The Psychological Complex, pp. 169-170.
16. J. Lewis (1980) The social history of social policy: infant welfare in Edwardian England, Journal of Social Policy, 9, pp. 476477.
17. Smith to Mr S., 12 February 1930. See also Smith to Mr T., 24 February 1930. VSPCC Letter Book, no 1.
18. Smith to Mr R., 4 April 1930, VSPCC Letter Book, vol. 1.
19. National Humane Review, January 1931, VSPCC Press Cuttings Book.
20. VSPCC Case record 4071, MS 10384. See also Smith to Mrs R., 22 January 1935, VSPCC Letter Book, vol. 6.
21. Karen Swift reaches a similar conclusion about the operations of the Canadian branch of the movement. K. Swift (1995) An outrage to common decency: historical perspectives on child neglect, Child Welfare, LXXIV, 1, pp. 82-83.
22. 2 April 1935, Smith to OIC, Eildon Weir police, 4 April 1935 Smith to Medical Officer of Health, Melbourne City Council, VSPCC Letter Book, vol. 6.
23. Report of the Third International Conference on Social Work (1936) p. 446 (London).
24. 26 March 1930, Smith to OIC, Moe police, 11 April 1930, Smith to Headmaster, Yendon State School, Letter Book, vol. 1.
25. 29 January 1931, Smith to H. J. Willis, VSPCC Letter Book, vol. 2.
26. 23 September 1930, Smith to OIC, Avoca police, Letter Book, vol. 1.
27. 15 June 1935, Smith to Richmond Town Clerk, Letter Book, vol. 6.
28. 12 March 1936, Smith to Medical Officer of Health, Melbourne, Letter Book, vol. 8.
29. See Marilyn Lake (1999) Childbearers as rights-bearers: feminist discourse on the rights of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal mothers, Australia 1920-50, in this edition of Women's History Review.