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A Space for Self-Fashioning

An Antipodean Red-Diaper Baby Goes to University in the Sixties

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The university experience can be many things, but one is as a time and space for self-fashioning, a liminal period between growing up in a specific family with particular histories and an undecided and unknown future. I was a Red Diaper baby, born near the end of World War II in October 1945 into an intensely political family, a communist family yet of very different ethnic and diasporic ancestries and histories.

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  1. Department of History, University of Sydney, Australia

    John Docker

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  1. University of Adelaide, Australia

    Dee Michell

  2. Federation University, Australia

    Jacqueline Z. Wilson

  3. Federation University, Australia

    Verity Archer

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Docker, J. (2015). A Space for Self-Fashioning. In: Michell, D., Wilson, J.Z., Archer, V. (eds) Bread and Roses. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-127-4_7

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