Abstract: The last quarter of the nineteenth century was a period of rapid educational, social and political change in colonial South Australia. White settler middle-class women were securing niches as teachers in the expanding secular state school system along with some Catholic lay teachers who were marginalised by a new religious teaching order, the Institute of the Sisters of St Joseph. The movement for women’s suffrage gathered momentum in South Australia, achieving success in 1894, but also exposing tensions in gender relations in the colony. Fir...
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Gender studies
Law