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Vagrancy

Davies, Sue. “Working Their Way to Respectability: Women, Vagrancy, and Reform in Late Nineteenth Century Melbourne.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 6 (1989): 50-63.

Davies, Susanne. ““Ragged, Dirty…Infamous and Obscene”: The Vagrant in Late-Nineteenth-Century Melbourne,.” In A Nation of Rogues: Crime, Law and Punishment in Colonial Australia, edited by David Philips and Susanne Davies, 141-65. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1994.

Kimber, Julie. “‘A Nuisance to the Community’: Policing the Vagrant Woman.” Journal of Australian Studies 34, no. 3 (2010): 275 – 93.

Kimber, Julie. “Poor Laws: A Historiography of Vagrancy in Australia.” History Compass 11, no. 8 (2013): 537-50.

Kimber, Julie. “Acts of Savagery: A Note on Poverty, Racism and the Law.” Victorian Historical Journal 83, no. 2 (2012): 255-70.

Kimber, Julie. ‘They Didn’t Want Work, You See’: Inequality and Blame in the Great Depression. Making Australian History: Perspectives on the Past since 1788.  South Melbourne: Cengage Learning Australia, 2008.

Straw, Leigh S. L. Drunks, Pests and Harlots: Criminal Women in Perth and Fremantle, 1900-1939.  Kilkerran: Humming Earth, 2013.

Straw, Leigh. ““The Worst Female Character”: Criminal Underclass Women in Perth and Fremantle, 1900–1939.” Journal of Australian Studies 37, no. 2 (2013): 208-24.

Swain, Shurlee L. “ ‘Destitute and Dependent: Case Studies in Poverty in Melbourne, 1890-1900’.” Australian Historical Studies 19, no. 74 (1980): 98 – 107.

Wilson, Dean. “Policing Poverty: Destitution and Police Work in Melbourne, 1880-1910.” Australian Historical Studies 36, no. 125 (2005): 97-112.

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