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- Title
The heights of rural-born English female convicts transported to New South Wales.
- Authors
Jackson, R.V.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the heights of rural-horn English female convicts who were transported to New South Wales. Writers S. Nicholas and D. Oxley regard the fall in the height of English rural-born women convicts born after 1800 as evidence of a reduction in the net nutrition of these women during industrialization. In their view, a decline in traditional forms of production led to a corresponding decline in the relative position of women in the family and the labor market, and this led in turn to fewer household resources being allocated to females. A parallel decline in female literacy reflected a new distribution of resources which gave males greater access to education. On this analysis, the greater fall in the height of English rural women shows that the position of women deteriorated most in rural England. The convict data tell a tale of slowly improving nutritional standards in Ireland, lower and declining living standards in urban England, and a polarizing English country community where women bore the highest costs of industrialization.
- Subjects
NEW South Wales; STATURE; WOMEN; NUTRITION; INDUSTRIALIZATION; LITERACY
- Publication
Economic History Review, 1996, Vol 49, Issue 3, p584
- ISSN
0013-0117
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2597765