Gender, Crime and Empire: Convicts, Settlers and the State in Early Colonial Australia by Kirsty Reid

Gender, Crime and Empire: Convicts, Settlers and the State in Early Colonial Australia

Kirsty Reid

256 pages • missing pub info (view editions)

nonfiction gender history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Between 1803 and 1853, some 80,000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen's Land. Revising established models of the colonies, which tend to depict convict women as a peculiarly oppressed group, Gender, crime and empire argues that convict men an...

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