Girls Becoming Teachers: An Historical Analysis of Western Australian Women Teachers, 1911–1940
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Chapter 11: ‘I Enjoyed It All Except the Hard Work’: Constructing a Teacherly Self

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Introduction

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The Infants’ Course: ‘Mothers Made Conscious’?

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The Upper Primary Course: ‘Expected to Cover the Whole Range’

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The Short Course: ‘We Were Responsible for Everything’

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Teacherly Selves: Troubling Constructions

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Chapter 12: The Unfolding Story: An Epilogue

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Introduction

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The Story So Far

342

Negotiating Gendered Discourses: ‘The Flowering of Discontent’

344

Investing Teacherly Capital: Families and Farming

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Growing Up Teacherly: Concluding Considerations

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Appendices

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A: The Participants

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B: Claremont Teachers’ College: Front Elevation

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C: Rooney and the Rural Course Graduates, 1925

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D: Cameron and the Rural Course Graduates, 1927–1928

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Notes

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Select Bibliography

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Index

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