JESSIE STREET NATIONAL WOMEN’S LIBRARY
LUNCH-HOUR TALKS SERIES

DR BEVERLEY KINGSTON
 
‘What shall we do with our girls?’
Recurring anxieties about the adolescent girl in Australia from 1800 to the present day.
 
Beverley Kingston is a social historian. She talks about the recurrent concerns about raising, educating and controlling adolescent girls in Australia. Beginning with the contemporary campaign against binge drinking, Beverley looks back through the guide books, manuals, books of advice and sociological studies on the subject that have appeared over the last 200 years. Some of the books and manuals she has used in her research will be on display.
 
WHEN

Thursday, 19 March 2009 from 12 till 1.30pm
 
WHERE

Seminar Room 1, Level 1, Ultimo Community Centre
Cnr William Henry & Harris Streets
Opposite the Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre
(Enter Community Centre via Bulwara Road)
Bus 501 from Town Hall at 11:10 and 11:30 am
Bus 501 from Railway Square at 11:18 and 11:38
 
ENTRY
$20 non-members
$15 JSNWL members
Pay at the door

Sandwich lunch provided
PLEASE BOOK BY 12 noon 17 March
       
Phone the library on (02) 9571 5359
or email info@nationalwomenslibrary.org.au
 
Jessie Street National Women's Library
Ultimo Community Centre, Harris Street, Ultimo
GPO Box 2656, Sydney  NSW  2001
info@nationalwomenslibrary.org.au
www.nationalwomenslibrary.org.au