Introduction

Author Biography

• Lynette Finch, Sunshine Coast University College

  Lynette Finch is Senior Lecturer in Australian Studies at the Sunshine Coast University College. She is co-author of Australia's Frontline (1992) and author of The Classing Gaze (1993). She has published on abortion practices during the nineteenth century, women in the Communist Party of Australia, and the institutionalisation of young working class girls in the nineteenth century. She is currently working on a history of the infant.