Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

IF 0.8 3区历史学 Q2 HISTORY

Gender and History Pub Date : 2026-10-05 Epub Date: 2026-01-20 DOI:10.1111/1468-0424.70019

Lorinda Cramer

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Abstract

As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life. This article explores how the products and handling of wool waste are connected to gender: the work, including that defined as noxious for its dust and stench that made some processes apparently more suitable for men or women, and the use, with some goods aligned to purity and others to pollution.

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裁剪、梳理、绒毛和羊群：性别和澳大利亚羊毛“废料”，1900-1950

从19世纪开始，澳大利亚的羊毛工业生产了大量的优质羊毛，而羊毛加工和服装制造业则产生了诸如剪毛、精梳毛、绒毛和羊毛等废物。这些材料被回收后卖给废品商，获得了第二次生命。这篇文章探讨了羊毛废料的产品和处理是如何与性别联系在一起的：工作，包括那些因灰尘和恶臭而被定义为有害的工作，这些工作显然更适合男性或女性，以及使用，一些产品与纯度有关，而另一些则与污染有关。

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期刊介绍： Gender & History is now established as the major international journal for research and writing on the history of femininity and masculinity and of gender relations. Spanning epochs and continents, Gender & History examines changing conceptions of gender, and maps the dialogue between femininities, masculinities and their historical contexts. The journal publishes rigorous and readable articles both on particular episodes in gender history and on broader methodological questions which have ramifications for the discipline as a whole.