Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)

From time immemorial : gender relations in Aboriginal societies before white contact / Nancy M. Williams and Lesley Jolly

From time immemorial : gender relations in Aboriginal societies before white contact / Nancy M. Williams and Lesley Jolly

With consideration of the limitations of the data upon which to draw - i.e. an ethnographic record produced largely by men or studies made of post contact societies - a broad picture is drawn of the major facets of womens lives, in relation to men and to each other before 1788; division of labour, marriage and ritual life