Home and housewifery on the central Victorian goldfields.

Presented by Katrina Dernelley, LaTrobe University.

The central Victorian goldfields were always a domestic, as well as an industrial, political, economic and environmental landscape.

Housework and the home were central to the history of the gold rushes and a domestic reading of goldfields history places women and domestic labour back in the story, not in the public sphere where most history is deemed to have been made, but in the home where most women worked.

On the goldfields, as with elsewhere in the colonies, it was women who were largely responsible for transporting and re-establishing home and family. Initially, goldfields housework was undertaken by men as well as women. However, generally domesticity and domestication was the work of women and in doing so, their labour turned an act of adventure into an act of settlement and colonisation.

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