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'Women's Objective - A Perfect Race': Whiteness, eugenics and the articulation of race

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Abstract

  • Writing in 1930 for Herself, a magazine published by Sydney's women's organizations with a strongly eugenic focus, Irene Longman, Queensland's first woman member of parliament and sometime president of that state's National Council of Women, reflected on the topic "Women's Objective - A Perfect Race"....

Publication Date

  • 2009

Citation

  • Carey, J. L. (2009). 'Women's Objective - A Perfect Race': Whiteness, eugenics and the articulation of race. In L. Boucher, J. L. Carey & K. Ellinghaus (Eds.), Re-Orienting Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the History of an Identity (pp. 183-198). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23207534M/Re-orienting_whiteness

International Standard Book Number (isbn) 13

  • 9780230618855

Ro Metadata Url

  • http://ro.uow.edu.au/lhapapers/1783

Book Title

  • Re-Orienting Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the History of an Identity

Start Page

  • 183

End Page

  • 198

Place Of Publication

  • New York

Abstract

  • Writing in 1930 for Herself, a magazine published by Sydney's women's organizations with a strongly eugenic focus, Irene Longman, Queensland's first woman member of parliament and sometime president of that state's National Council of Women, reflected on the topic "Women's Objective - A Perfect Race"....

Publication Date

  • 2009

Citation

  • Carey, J. L. (2009). 'Women's Objective - A Perfect Race': Whiteness, eugenics and the articulation of race. In L. Boucher, J. L. Carey & K. Ellinghaus (Eds.), Re-Orienting Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the History of an Identity (pp. 183-198). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23207534M/Re-orienting_whiteness

International Standard Book Number (isbn) 13

  • 9780230618855

Ro Metadata Url

  • http://ro.uow.edu.au/lhapapers/1783

Book Title

  • Re-Orienting Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the History of an Identity

Start Page

  • 183

End Page

  • 198

Place Of Publication

  • New York