Applying contemporary understandings of financial abuse to women's experiences of marital violence in colonial South Australia, 1859–1893.
Financial abuse is a central component of domestic violence. Often difficult to disentangle from other forms of domestic violence, its complex and near invisible nature can allow it to go undetected by those experiencing it and by the legal system alike. Historicising financial abuse is a delicate a...
| Publicado en: | Women's History Review Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 588 - 611 |
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Jul2026
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