- Title
- The Parramatta female factory precinct and the National history curriculum
- Creator
- Wilson, Jacqueline; Russell, Peter; McCart, Simon
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/160318
- Identifier
- vital:12159
- Identifier
- ISBN:978-1-925003078-9
- Abstract
- In September 2013 a conference was held to commemorate and promote a site which those present unanimously acknowledged as bemg of ma;or historical significance, but which is all but unknown in the wider Australian community. The Parramatta Female Factory Precinct (PFFP) is one of a handful of historical sites chat represent the history of women's and children's incarceration and institutionalisation in Australia. Of that handful, the PFFP is by far the most extensive site in area, in operational longevity and in the number of extant structures it comprises. It thus stands as arguably che premier institutional exemplar in the historical field and has in recent years become a locus embodying the experiences of the Forgotten A
- Publisher
- Australian Scholarly Publishing
- Relation
- Silent system: Forgotten Australians and the Institutionalisation of women and children Chapter 11 p. 132-145
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Institutional care; Abused children; Children; Child welfare; Women; Abused women
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