Negotiating poverty: Women and charity in nineteenth-century Melbourne

Women's History Review

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 99-112

  Swain, Shurlee ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 38749120926     PISSN: 09612025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09612020601049744     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Linda Gordon (1990) Response to Scott, Signs, 15(4), p. 853.
2. The history of the Society is told in a commemorative volume, G. Zichy Woinarski & E. Abbott (1945) Women who Helped Pioneers: pages of Melbourne history that glow (Melbourne).
3. Eileen Yeo (1996) The Contest for Social Science: relations and representations of gender and class (London: Rivers Oram Press), ch. 5.
4. Jane F, Jamieson, Hon Treasurer, Melbourne Ladies' Benevolent Society, letter to the editor of the Argus, published 23 June 1892.
5. Peter Mandler (1990) Poverty and Charity in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis: an introduction, in Peter Mandler (Ed.) The Uses of Charity: the poor on relief in the nineteenth-century metropolis (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press), p. 13.
6. For a fuller discussion of Australian women's philanthropy, see S. Swain (2001) Women and Philanthropy in Colonial and Post-colonial Australia, in K. McCarthy (Ed.) Women, Philanthropy, and Civil Society (Bloomington: Indiana University Press).
7. See, for example, Richard Kennedy (1982) Charity Warfare: the Charity Organisation Society in colonial Melbourne (Melbourne: Hyland House).
8. Colin Jones (1996) Some Recent Trends in the History of Charity, in Martin Daunton (Ed.) Charity, Self-interest and Welfare in the English Past (London: UGL Press), pp. 54-55.
9. Seth Koven (2004), Slumming: sexual and social politics in Victorian London (Princeton: Princeton University Press), provides a detailed discursive analysis of the complexities involved in the charitable relationship.
10. Peter Shapely (2001) Urban Charity, Class Relations and Social Cohesion: charitable responses to the cotton famine, Urban History, 28(1), p. 47.
11. Ellen Ross (2001) Slum Journeys: ladies and London poverty 1860-1940, in Alan Mayne & Tim Murray (Eds) The Archeology of Urban Landscapes: explorations in slumland (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), p. 13.
12. Yeo, Contest for Social Science, p. 125.
13. Ross, 'Slum Journeys', pp. 14-15.
14. Ellen Ross (1993) Love and Toil: motherhood in Outcast London 1870-1918 (Oxford: Oxford University Press), p. 18.
15. Christine Stansell (1986) City of Women: sex and class in New York, 1789-1860 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf), p. 75.
16. Linda Gordon (1988) Heroes of Their Own Lives: the politics and history of family violence, Boston 1880-1960 (New York: Viking), p. 46.
17. Mandler, 'Poverty and Charity' p. 23.
18. Nikolas Rose (1989) Governing the Soul: the shaping of the private self, p.127 (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul). Mandler, 'Poverty and Charity', p. 1.
19. Ellen Ross (1990) Hungry Children: housewives and London charity, 1870-1918, in Peter Mandler (Ed.), The Uses of Charity, p. 187.
20. Ross, 'Hungry Children", pp. 161,168. [23]
21. Shapely, 'Urban Charity', p. 62.
22. For studies of the history of charity in Australia, see Brian Dickey (1980) No Charity There: a short history of social welfare in Australia (Melbourne: Thomas Nelson)
23. Anne O'Brien (1988) Poverty's Prison: the poor in New South Wales 1880-1918 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press).
24. Joan Scott (1990) Review of Heroes of Their Own Lives: the politics and history of family violence, Signs, 15(4), pp. 848-852.
25. Franca Iacovetta & Wendy Mitchinson (1998) Introduction: social history and case file research, in Franca lacovetta & Wendy Mitchinson (Eds) On the Case: explorations in social history (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), p. 15.
26. Carolyn Strange (1998) Stories of Their Lives: the historian and the capital case file, in lacovelta & MiLchinson (Eds), On the Case, p. 33.
27. Detailed statistics of the Society's operations are to be found in Shurlee Swain (1977) The Victorian Charity Network in the 1890s (Ph.D. thesis, University of Melbourne), pp. 401-404.
28. Michael Katz (1990) The History of an Impudent Poor Woman in New York City from 1918 to 1923, in Mandler (Ed.), The Uses of Charity, pp. 238-239.
29. Judith Godden (1986) British Models and Colonial Experience: women's philanthropy in late nineteenth-century Sydney, Journal of Australian Studies, 19, p. 43.
30. Melbourne Ladies' Benevolent Society, Minute Book, 3 July 1887, MS 12414, Box 3207/7, Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, vol. 29, p. 34.
31. Gordon, Heroes of Their Own Lives, p. 47.
32. Abel describes a similar process amongst American charity workers. Emily Abel (1998) Valuing Care: turn-of-the-century conflicts between charity workers and women clients, Journal of Women's History, 10(3), p. 51.
33. Shurlee Swain (1985) Mrs Hughes and the 'Deserving Poor', in M, Lake & F. Kelly (Eds) Double Time: women in Victoria-150 Years (Ringwood: Penguin).