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Desertion

Piper, Alana. ‘Understanding Economic Abuse as Domestic Violence’. Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives, edited by Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2019. 34-48.

Twomey, Christina. Deserted and Destitute: Motherhood, Wife Desertion and Colonial Welfare (Kew: Australian Scholarly Press, 2002).

Twomey, Christina. “Identifying (with) a ‘Serious Social Evil’: Deserted Wives in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Victoria.” In Forging Identities, edited by Jan Gothard and Helen Brash Jane Long, 69-87. Perth: University of West Australia Press, 1997.

Twomey, Christina. “‘Without Natural Protectors’: Responses to Wife Desertion in Gold-Rush Victoria.” Australian Historical Studies 28, no. 108 (1997): 22-46.

Tiffin, Susan. “In Pursuit of Reluctant Parents: Desertion and Non-Support Legislation in Australia and the United States.” In What Rough Beast?: The State and Social Order in Australian History, edited by Sydney Labour History Group, 130-50. Sydney; London; Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1982.

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