Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Photographs
- Acknowledgements
- Maps of Papua New Guinea
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Passages to Papua New Guinea
- 2 Different Destinations
- 3 White Women in Papua New Guinea: Relative Creatures?
- 4 In Town and Down the Road
- 5 War, a Watershed in Race Relations?
- 6 The Civilising Mission
- 7 Matters of Sex
- 8 Making a Space for Women
- Appendix 1 Biographical Notes
- Appendix 2 Key Events in Chronological Order
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index
Appendix 1 - Biographical Notes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Photographs
- Acknowledgements
- Maps of Papua New Guinea
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Passages to Papua New Guinea
- 2 Different Destinations
- 3 White Women in Papua New Guinea: Relative Creatures?
- 4 In Town and Down the Road
- 5 War, a Watershed in Race Relations?
- 6 The Civilising Mission
- 7 Matters of Sex
- 8 Making a Space for Women
- Appendix 1 Biographical Notes
- Appendix 2 Key Events in Chronological Order
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index
Summary
Pat Andersen
Interviewed by Chilla Bulbeck in July 1987
Pat Andersen studied social work in the early 1940s. In 1948 her husband Neville, a doctor, decided to work with the London Missionary Society in Papua New Guinea. The Andersens went to the delta region in Papua where they established a hospital. Pat Andersen had two children in Papua New Guinea before the family returned to Australia in 1953. Pat Andersen had a third child in Australia, returning to social work on a part-time basis. She and her husband live in Sydney.
Sister Aquilonia Ax
Written by Sr Aquilonia from the transcript of a conversation with Chilla Bulbeck on 22 November 1988
‘I was born in a small German village. In answer to God's call and of the needy of the world I left a loving home and beautiful country and entered the International Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Spirit at the Motherhouse in Sleyl, Holland. I soon found myself in the United States where I taught for a number of years and also obtained my postgraduate qualifications. In 1948 I was appointed Provincial Superior of the war-ravaged mission of New Guinea, once a flourishing mission, with headquarters at Alexishaven. My chief responsibility was the Sisters and their work from Lae to Aitape and some stations in the Highlands.
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- Australian Women in Papua New GuineaColonial Passages 1920–1960, pp. 250 - 261Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992