Popular Media
There has been a resurgence in interest in this topic in recent years. Some of the leading historians associated with this topic are Deborah Oxley, Anne Summers and Joy Damousi. There have been several films depicting the lives and experiences of women in Colonial Australia, most notably the recent minseries Mary Bryant and the film "Adam's Woman" .
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