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Jan Gothard was born on December 22, 1955, in Canberra, Australia.
Jan Gothard is a member of the Oral History Association of Australia.
Jan Gothard is a member of the Australian Historical Association.
Jan Gothard is a member of the History Teachers' Association of Western Australia.
Jan Gothard is a member of the History Council of Western Australia.
Jan Gothard, educator, historian, author, scholar.
Jan Gothard, educator, historian, author, scholar.
Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
Jan Gothard earned a Bachelor of Arts from Australian National University.
90 South St, Murdoch WA 6150, Australia
Jan Gothard earned a Doctor of Philosophy from Murdoch University.
(Between 1860 and 1900, nearly 100,000 single working-clas...)
Between 1860 and 1900, nearly 100,000 single working-class women emigrated from the United Kingdom to the Australian colonies. They were the largest single category of immigrants to be given colonial government assistance. The book is a study of Australian immigration policy generally. Its strength lies in the breadth of this research. While showing how individual colonies differed in their approach to female immigration, it also highlights the common factors in the female immigrants' experiences, and stories of individual women's experiences add further life and color to a very accessible text.
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2001
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Based on more than 60 personal interviews and supported by scholarly research, this book shows the varied attitudes and approaches that make up the rich experience of living with disability in a changing society. Covering Down syndrome from conception to old age, this historical analysis touches upon a variety of themes, including education, friendship, health, recreation, sexuality, employment, and independence.
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2011
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Jan Gothard was born on December 22, 1955, in Canberra, Australia.
In 1977, Jan Gothard earned a Bachelor of Arts from Australian National University. In 1992, she earned a Doctor of Philosophy from Murdoch University.
Jan Gothard's interest in history has taken her around the world, and she has spent time working in Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In 1991-2014, she was an Associate Professor of History at Murdoch University. Since 2014, she has been an Adjunct Associate Professor at this university. In 1998-1999, she was a Director of the Centre for Western Australia History, University of Western Australia. In 1999-2003, Gothard was a Resident Director of CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange) Study Centre, Murdoch University. In 2002-2011, she was a Regional Director of the CIEE Council on International Educational Exchange. In 2002-2007, she worked as a general editor of the Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia. In 2003, she was Lewis P. Jones Visiting Professor of History at Wofford College. In 2015, Gothard founded Visa Health Australia. Since 2016, she has been a Health and Disability Specialist and a Registered Migration Agent, who works for Estrin Saul Lawyers.
Her research interests include migration, disability, and women's history, and all of these areas are addressed in her numerous articles, essays, and books. One of Gothard's books, of which she is co-editor, is Forging Identities: Bodies, Gender, and Feminist History. This collection of essays explores the complexities of femininity, the construction of gender and gendered identities, and the complicated relationship between identity and embodiment. The collection is a direct result of the 1994 Australian Historical Association Conference Women's Network sessions, of which Gothard was a participant.
Gothard's next major work is Blue China: Single Female Migration to Colonial Australia, published in 2001. The book is a carefully researched book that began as a thesis. Blue China is the story of almost one hundred thousand single women who emigrated from Britain to the Australian colonies between 1850 and 1900. Told through Gothard's narrative as well as authentic journal and diary entries, the author lays to rest the popular myth surrounding this group of women, whose passage was paid for by the colonial government. She establishes that, rather than immigrating to find husbands, the primary objective of the women was to improve their own lives through employment. The British government viewed migration as a way to ease the shortage of domestic servants in Colonial Australia.
Regardless of motive, the oppressive attitudes toward women during that era put a serious limitation on their mobility and initiative. To "protect" their investment, the government employed shipboard matrons whose sole duty it was to keep the women away from men. Once to shore, they were again confined and isolated, the result being an overall ignorance of the wages they could have demanded in Australia's labor-hungry market. Gothard's research also explores and assesses the notion of women workers as commodities whose value was considered directly in line with their ability to maintain bourgeois values of family and nation. Blue China is the first book of its kind to present treatment and analysis of this theory. The title is a reference to flow blue china, which becomes worthless if damaged. Blue China analyzes the women's experiences from screening and selection to transition. In the end, Gothard determines that the women did what women have always done: they used to their advantage the very institutions designed to control them.
In 2011, she published the oral history-based book Greater Expectations: Living with Down Syndrome in the 21st Century Australia.
(Based on more than 60 personal interviews and supported b...)
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2001
Jan Gothard has three daughters, one of whom was born in 1992 with Down syndrome.