Journal articles: 'Australian Women's History'

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Spongberg, Mary. "Australian Women's History." Women's History Review 8, no. 2 (June 1999): 379–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09612029900200206.

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Nuttall, Sarah. "History and identity in contemporary australian women's autobiography." Women's Writing 5, no. 2 (July 1, 1998): 189–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09699089800200060.

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Lloyd, Justine. "Women's Pages in Australian Print Media from the 1850s." Media International Australia 150, no. 1 (February 2014): 61–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1415000114.

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For a roughly a century, from the 1870s to the 1970s, most Australian newspapers ran a section directed towards a woman reader written from a woman's perspective and edited by a female journalist. The rise and fall of the women's editor's ‘empire within an empire’ provides insight into female journalists' industrial situation, as well as a window on to gender relations in colonial and post-Federation Australia. This history matches wider struggles over the notion of separate spheres and resulting claims for equality, as well as debates over mainstream news values. This article investigates the appearance and disappearance of women's sections from Australian newspapers, and argues that this story has greater impact on contemporary digital formats than we perhaps realise.

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GOODALL, HEATHER, and DEVLEENA GHOSH. "Reimagining Asia: Indian and Australian women crossing borders." Modern Asian Studies 53, no. 04 (December 7, 2018): 1183–221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x17000920.

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AbstractThe decades from the 1940s to the 1960s were ones of increasing contacts between women of India and Australia. These were not built on a shared British colonial history, but on commitments to visions circulating globally of equality between races, sexes, and classes. Kapila Khandvala from Bombay and Lucy Woodcock from Sydney were two women who met during such campaigns. Interacting roughly on an equal footing, they were aware of each other's activism in the Second World War and the emerging Cold War. Khandvala and Woodcock both made major contributions to the women's movements of their countries, yet have been largely forgotten in recent histories, as have links between their countries. We analyse their interactions, views, and practices on issues to which they devoted their lives: women's rights, progressive education, and peace. Their beliefs and practices on each were shaped by their respective local contexts, although they shared ideologies that were circulating internationally. These kept them in contact over many years, during which Kapila built networks that brought Australians into the sphere of Indian women's awareness, while Lucy, in addition to her continuing contacts with Kapila, travelled to China and consolidated links between Australian and Chinese women in Sydney. Their activist world was centred not in Western Europe, but in a new Asia that linked Australia and India. Our comparative study of the work and interactions of these two activist women offers strategies for working on global histories, where collaborative research and analysis is conducted in both colonizing and colonized countries.

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Irving, Helen. "The Republic is a Feminist Issue." Feminist Review 52, no. 1 (March 1996): 87–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/fr.1996.9.

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The growth during the 1990s of a republican movement in Australia has stimulated among other things a feminist examination of both the gendered nature of republicanism and the under-representation of women in senior positions in republican organizations. Feminists have adopted several critical perspectives on Australian republicanism: one involves the claim for the redesign of Australian political institutions in order to maximize the representation of women and women's interests; another suggests that the neglected history of women's involvement in constitutional politics during the last century needs to be understood to throw light on ways in which republicanism can be made more meaningful for women now, while a third argues that republicanism is not essentially a feminist issue and should not be pursued as such. The article challenges this conclusion.

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Murdolo, Adele. "Warmth and Unity with all Women?" Feminist Review 52, no. 1 (March 1996): 69–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/fr.1996.8.

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In this paper I discuss the four Women and Labour conferences which were held in Australian capital cities over the seven years between 1978 and 1984. I explore the ways in which the history of Australian feminist activism during this period could be written, questioning in particular the claim that the Women and Labour conferences have been central to the history of Australian feminism. I discuss the ways in which a historical sense could be established, using writings about the conferences as historical ‘evidence’, that race and ethnic divisions between women had not been important to the ‘women's movement’ until 1984. In other words, I challenge the construction of this conference as a turning point – not only in the feminist politicization of immigrant and Aboriginal women, but also in the politicization of all feminists about race and ethnic divisions. More broadly, I am interested in how a history would be written if it aimed to get to the ‘truth’ about racism and about the feminist activism of immigrant women. How would the apparent lack of written ‘evidence’ – at least until 1984 – of immigrant women's feminist activism, and of the awareness of Australian feminists about issues of racism, be written into this history? In addition, I suggest that it is important to the writing of feminist history in Australia that published documentation has been mostly produced by anglo women, and is thus partial and mediated by the lived, embodied experiences of anglo women. Finally, my intention is to interrogate commonly understood narratives about Australian feminist history, to challenge their seamlessness, and to suggest the importance of recognizing the tension within feminist discourses between difference as benign diversity and difference as disruption.

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Dow, Gwyneth. "Educational, women's and social history entangled: some recent Australian examples." History of Education 17, no. 1 (March 1988): 101–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0046760880170107.

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Kibler, M. Alison. "Settling Accounts with Settler Societies: Strategies for Using Australian Women's History in a United States Women's History Class." History Teacher 37, no. 2 (February 2004): 155. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1555649.

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Hunter, Kathryn M. "The Drover's Wife and the Drover's Daughter: Histories of Single Farming Women and Debates in Australian Historiography." Rural History 12, no. 2 (October 2001): 179–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956793300002430.

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AbstractIn the 1980s two vigorous debates commanded the attention of economic and feminist historians alike, and they played a key part in shaping the historiography concerning rural women in Australia. One debate revolved around the use of the nineteenth-century census in determining women's occupations, including those of farming women. The other debate, part of a wider feminist conversation about women's agency, focused on the question of the nature of white women's lives within colonial families and society. Despite the centrality of rural women to these debates, and the role colonial women's histories played in shaping the historiography, these debates did not impact upon the writing of rural history in Australia. This article revisits these debates in the light of new research into the lives of never-married women on Australia's family farms and uses their histories to question the conclusions arrived at by feminist and economic historians. It also questions the continuing invisibility of rural women in histories of rural Australia and hopes to provoke more discussion between rural and feminist historians.

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Hope, Cat, Nat Grant, Gabriella Smart, and Tristen Parr. "TOWARDS THE SUMMERS NIGHT: A MENTORING PROJECT FOR AUSTRALIAN COMPOSERS IDENTIFYING AS WOMEN." Tempo 74, no. 292 (March 6, 2020): 49–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040298219001177.

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AbstractThe Summers Night Project is an ongoing composer-mentoring programme established in 2018 by musicians Cat Hope and Gabriella Smart, with the support of the Perth-based new music organisation Tura New Music. The project aims to support and mentor emerging Australian female and gender minority composers to create new compositions for performance, with the aim of growing the gender diversity of composers in music programmes across Australia. Three composers were chosen from a national call for submissions, and works were performed by an ensemble consisting of members from the Decibel and Soundstream new music ensembles. Three new works were workshopped, recorded then performed on a short tour of Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne, Australia in July 2018. The project takes its name and inspiration from Australian feminist Anne Summers, author of the ground-breaking examination of women in Australia's history Damned Whores and God's Police (1975) and was inspired by her 2017 Women's Manifesto. This article examines the rationale for such a project, the processes and results of the project itself, and plans for its future.

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Tucker, Shirley. "The ‘country’ in contemporary Australian women's country music: Gender, history, narrative." Journal of Australian Studies 29, no. 86 (January 2005): 111–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443050509388037.

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Lloyd, Justine. "“A Girdle of Thought Thrown around the World”." Feminist Media Histories 5, no. 3 (2019): 168–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2019.5.3.168.

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This article outlines impulses toward internationalism in women's programming during the twentieth century at two public service broadcasters: the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in Canada and the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) in Australia. These case studies show common patterns as well as key differences in the establishment of an international frame for the modern domestic sphere. Research conducted in paper and audio recording archives relating to nonfiction programming for women demonstrates pervasive tensions between women's international versus national solidarities. The article argues that these contradictions must be highlighted—rather than papered over in a simplistic understanding of such programming as reflecting a binary domestic ideology of private versus public, home versus world—to fully understand media history and cultural memory from a gendered perspective.

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Matthews, Jill Julius. "Doing theory or using theory: Australian feminist/women's history in the 1990s." Australian Historical Studies 27, no. 106 (April 1996): 49–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10314619608595997.

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Manderson, Lenore, Milica Markovic, and Michael Quinn. "“Like roulette”: Australian women's explanations of gynecological cancers." Social Science & Medicine 61, no. 2 (July 2005): 323–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.11.052.

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Eather, Warwick. "The Liberal Party of Australia and the Australian Women's Movement Against Socialisation 1947-54." Australian Journal of Politics and History 44, no. 2 (June 1998): 191–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8497.00011.

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Russell, Lani, and Marian Sawer. "The Rise and Fall of the Australian Women's Bureau." Australian Journal of Politics and History 45, no. 3 (August 1999): 362–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8497.00070.

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Gattuso, Suzy, Simone Fullagar, and Ilena Young. "Speaking of women's ‘nameless misery’: The everyday construction of depression in Australian women's magazines." Social Science & Medicine 61, no. 8 (October 2005): 1640–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.03.020.

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Samuelsson, Lauren. "The Imitation Game: Mock Foods in the Australian Women's Weekly, 1933–82." Australian Historical Studies 51, no. 4 (September 15, 2019): 477–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2019.1651353.

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Weaver, Heather, and Helen Proctor. "The Question of the Spotted Muumuu: How the Australian Women's Weekly Manufactured a Vision of the Normative School Mother and Child, 1930s–1980s." History of Education Quarterly 58, no. 2 (April 13, 2018): 229–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/heq.2018.4.

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This paper examines Australia's history of uniformed schooling as mediated by its leading mass-market magazine, the Australian Women's Weekly. This magazine was a significant cultural agent that served as an authority on everything from fashion to schooling, capitalizing on the matter of school dress by running advertisements for school uniforms, printing articles and letters on school wear, and featuring attractive images of uniformed schoolchildren. This paper argues that the Weekly used this content to provide textual and visual reinforcement for a powerful cultural trope of the proper, desirable, happy, and modern Australian schoolchild as uniformed. In doing so, it represented the normative school mother as working behind the scenes to produce or procure the school uniform as well as to arrange and manage the uniformed child. We contend that the magazine portrayed this work as part of a project to draw the mother into a respectable and ostensibly “Australian” community.

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Butler-Henderson, Kerryn, Alisa Percy, and Jo-Anne Kelder. "Editorial 18:3 Celebrating women in higher education on International Women’s Day." Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice 18, no. 3 (July 1, 2021): 2–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.53761/1.18.3.1.

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We have timed publishing our first standard issue of the year to coincide with International Woman’s Day, 8 March 2021 to celebrate the contribution women have made to higher education. The first woman documented as teaching in a university was more than 800 years ago, and yet it is only the last century that the number of female academics has started to increase (Whaley, 2011). In Australia, the first university was established in 1851, yet it would be another 32 years until Julia Guerin graduated in 1883 from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in 1883 (Women's Museum of Australia, 2020). And another 10 years when Leonora Little graduated from Melbourne University with a Bachelor of Science in 1983. Despite these accomplishments in the late 19th century, it was not until 1959 when the first woman, Dorothy Hill, was awarded a Chair appointment (Chair of Geology) in an Australian university, and nearly a century before Australia has its first female Vice Chancellor, when Dianne Yerbury became the Vice-Chancellor of Macquarie University in 1987, a position she held for twenty years. Australia’s higher education history tells a clear story of the slow integration of women in higher education, particularly within the STEM fields. For example, Little graduated in 1893 with a Bachelor of Science, but it was 1928 before the first female Lecturer in Mathematics, Ethel Raybould was appointed, and another 36 years before Hanna Neumann became the first female Professor of Pure Mathematics in 1964. It was just over 60 years ago that Margaret Williams-Weir was the first female Indigenous Australian to graduate with a university qualification in 1959. Female Indigenous Australians remain under-represented in the Australian university graduate population. The current situation for Australian higher education still retains a dominance of males within academic roles, such as 30 percent more men in Associate and Full Professor roles than women (Devlin, 2021). And whilst there has been progress in some jurisdictions, such as the majority of Queensland vice chancellors are women in 2021, these continue to be the exception, for example only 28% of vice chancellors in Australia are women. International Woman’s Day is an opportunity to reflect on the significant contribution women make in higher education in Australia and globally. We celebrate through the publication of this issue, with many female authors from across higher education globally.

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Holmes, Katie. "Making time: Representations of temporality in Australian women's diaries of the 1920s and 1930s∗." Australian Historical Studies 26, no. 102 (April 1994): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10314619408595947.

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Sharpe, Pamela. "Domestic Service in Australia. By B. W. Higman. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 358." Journal of Economic History 63, no. 1 (March 2003): 269–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022050703361807.

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When I first arrived in Australia as a backpacker in the mid-1980s my job possibilities included negotiating a job as a governess on a remote station through an agency, and, when a café proprietor offered me a job, just a few minutes later finding myself alone in her house confronting a vast mound of laundry and other housework with no terms discussed and no prospect of lunch. I had applied to be a waitress but I felt like a slave. I did not know much about Australia or service jobs at that stage and neither of these positions stuck. I never worked in a bar although the Aussie barmaid might best illustrate the Australian stereotype of female service as Dianne Kirkby has shown in her recent work (Barmaids: A History of Women's Work in Pubs, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1997). It is interesting to place such experiences in the context of Barry Higman's excellent new book. For all the male and macho impressions of the pioneering male conquering the alien landscape of the outback, in fact colonial Australia had a very high proportion of women in the workforce. Yet the concept of service somehow sits oddly with the egalitarianism of Australian culture.

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Pickles, Katie. "Who was that woman? the australian women's weekly in the post-war years." Women's History Review 12, no. 4 (December 1, 2003): 679–710. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09612020300200718.

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Byrne, Paula J., Patricia Clarke, and Dale Spender. "Life Lines: Australian Women's Letters and Diaries, 1788 to 1840." Labour History, no. 65 (1993): 227. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27509215.

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Damousi, Joy. "History of Australian feminisms conference 9th July‐11 July 1992 Women's College, University of Sydney." Australian Feminist Studies 8, no. 17 (March 1993): 163–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08164649.1993.9994682.

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Tucker, Shirley. "Your worst nightmare: Hybridised demonology in Asian‐Australian women's writing." Journal of Australian Studies 24, no. 65 (January 2000): 150–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443050009387598.

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Ommundsen, Wenche. "Exoticism or Visceral Cosmopolitanism: Difference and Desire in Chinese Australian Women's Writing." Journal of Intercultural Studies 40, no. 5 (September 3, 2019): 595–607. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2019.1651706.

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Shields, John. "Edna Ryan, Women's Activism and the Australian Labour Movement: A Celebration." Labour History, no. 74 (1998): 187. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27516566.

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Twigg, Karen. "The Green Years: The Role of Abundant Water in Shaping Postwar Constructions of Rural Femininity." Environment and History 27, no. 2 (May 1, 2021): 277–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/096734021x16076828553539.

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This article offers one of the first studies to pay attention to the influence of abundant rain in advancing postwar agendas and shaping new constructions of rural femininity. Enriching an understanding of modernity, I use oral history testimony and private archives to illuminate women's emotional, social and sensory responses to plentiful water and the possibilities it fostered. While previous tropes had warned that close engagement with the elements would leave women 'unsexed' and drained of feminine vitality, the verdure that characterised the postwar era made the environment appear pliable, acquiescent and drought-proof, no longer threatening but actively inviting women's involvement. Informed by scientific agriculture, the modern rural woman, was constructed as 'feminine' and 'attractive' but also well-equipped to contribute her labour to the forward momentum of Australian farming.

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Waldby, Catherine, Ian Kerridge, Margaret Boulos, and Katherine Carroll. "From altruism to monetisation: Australian women's ideas about money, ethics and research eggs." Social Science & Medicine 94 (October 2013): 34–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.05.034.

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Brown, Rhonda Frances, Tanya Rebecca Muller, and Anna Olsen. "Australian women's cervical cancer screening attendance as a function of screening barriers and facilitators." Social Science & Medicine 220 (January 2019): 396–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.11.038.

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McDermid, Jane. "Home and Away: A Schoolmistress in Lowland Scotland and Colonial Australia in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century." History of Education Quarterly 51, no. 1 (February 2011): 28–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5959.2010.00309.x.

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Writing in this journal in 1993, Marjorie Theobald examined the history of middle-class women's education in late-eighteenth-century Britain and its transference and adaptation to colonial Australia in the nineteenth century. She questioned both the British historical perception that before the middle of the nineteenth century middle-class parents showed little, if any, interest in their daughters' education, and the Australian assumption that the transplantation of the private female academy (or seminary) was simply a reflection of the scramble for respectability by a small middle class scattered among a convict society. Theobald found that, as in Britain by the early 1800s, these schools—all private and run for profit by the wives and daughters of clergy and other professional men—shared a remarkably similar curriculum, generally advertised as “An English education with the usual accomplishments.” This was not, she argued, an elementary education, but rather was rooted in the liberal arts tradition and had been influenced by the search for stability within a rapidly industrializing Britain. The daughters of the British middle classes were to be taught how to deploy their learning discreedy, to ensure that it was at the service of their domestic role and civilizing influence.

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Whitehead, Kay, and Stephen Thorpe. "The Function of Age and the History of Women's Work: The Career of an Australian Teacher, 1907-1947." Gender History 16, no. 1 (April 2004): 172–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0953-5233.2004.332_1.x.

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Sheridan, Susan. "Eating the Other: Food and cultural difference in the Australian Women's Weekly in the 1960s." Journal of Intercultural Studies 21, no. 3 (December 2000): 319–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/713678985.

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Maloney, Vivien. "Disruptive gatekeepers: The representation of father‐figures in contemporary Australian women's short fiction." Journal of Australian Studies 27, no. 76 (January 2003): 57–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443050309387824.

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Wedgwood, Nikki. "Doin’ It for Themselves! A Case Study of the Development of a Women's Australian Rules Football Competition." International Journal of the History of Sport 22, no. 3 (May 2005): 396–414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09523360500048696.

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Woollacott, Angela. "Inventing Commonwealth and Pan-Pacific Feminisms: Australian Women's Internationalist Activism in the 1920s-30s." Gender History 10, no. 3 (November 1998): 425–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.00112.

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Kealey, Linda, and Chilla Bulbeck. "Living Feminism: The Impact of the Women's Movement on Three Generations of Australian Women." Labour History, no. 75 (1998): 227. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27516615.

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Morris, Robyn. "Food, race and the power of recuperative identity politics within Asian Australian women's fiction." Journal of Australian Studies 32, no. 4 (December 2008): 499–508. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443050802471400.

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Saunders, Malcolm, and Ralph Summy. "Odd Ones Out: The Australian Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom: 1919-41*." Australian Journal of Politics & History 40, no. 1 (April 7, 2008): 83–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.1994.tb00093.x.

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Quartly, Marian. "Defending “The Purity of Home Life” Against Socialism: The Founding Years of the Australian Women's National League." Australian Journal of Politics & History 50, no. 2 (June 2004): 178–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.2004.00331.x.

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McKay, Belinda. "‘The One Jarring Note’: Race and Gender in Queensland Women's Writing to 1939." Queensland Review 8, no. 1 (May 2001): 31–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s132181660000235x.

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The literary production of women in Queensland from Separation to World War II records and reflects on various aspects of colonial life and Australian nationhood in a period when white women's participation in public life and letters was steadily increasing. Unease with the colonial experience underpins many of the key themes of this body of work: the difficulty of finding a literary voice in a new land, a conflicted sense ofplace, the linking of masculinity with violence, and the promotion of racial purity. This chapter will explore how white women writers – for there were no published Indigenous women writers in this era – responded to the conditions of living and writing in Queensland prior to the social and cultural changes initiated by World War II.

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Beaumont, Marilyn. "Development of the 2000-2005 Victorian Women's Health Plan: A Case Study." Australian Journal of Primary Health 6, no. 4 (2000): 248. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py00059.

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The paper describes and assesses the development of the 2000 to 2005 Victorian Women's Health Plan; a policy overtaken by a range of political processes. It provides a working example of health promotion policy development including mapping the history and context behind the development of the policy. The paper is written from the author's view that good health policy behind funding arrangements is critical for good health practice. It is also important for health service providers to have an understanding of the politics and processes surrounding health policy development and implementation surrounding their practice and to work with this understanding to improve health outcomes. This is particularly the case with health promotion policy because outcomes are generally only identifiable in the longer term. Within Victoria, during the period 1995-1998, a number of things occurred to provide an environment for renewal of interest and potential for progress in women's health policy development. This included an increasing understanding of the relationship between gender and health outcomes. The complex economic, political and environmental elements, understanding of opportunities available, actions developed and taken, and the results are all expanded upon in the paper. The activity resulted in the launch, in August 1999, of the five-year Victorian Women's Health Plan. It was hailed by the then Victorian Premier on the launch occasion as the 'first comprehensive women's health plan to be developed by any Australian state, which leads the way for other States to follow'. The launch coincided with the calling of a State government election. Four weeks later there was a change of government and the process to develop policy has began again.

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Saunders, Kay. "Not for them battle fatigues: The Australian women's land army in the second world war." Journal of Australian Studies 21, no. 52 (January 1997): 81–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443059709387299.

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Dudley, E., J. Guthrie, J. Hopper, and L. Dennerstein. "P213 The natural history of the menopausal transition in australian born women: An update from the melbourne women's midlife health project." Maturitas 27 (November 1996): 183. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0378-5122(97)81404-1.

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Obermair, Helena M., Kirsten J. McCaffery, and Rachael H. Dodd. "“A Pap smear saved my life”: Personal experiences of cervical abnormalities shape attitudes to cervical screening renewal." Journal of Medical Screening 27, no. 4 (November 26, 2019): 223–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969141319889648.

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Objective In 2017, the Australian National Cervical Screening Program changed from two-yearly Pap smears between ages 18 and 69, to five-yearly human papillomavirus screening between ages 25 and 74 (the “Renewal”). This study investigated attitudes towards the changes, among individuals previously affected by cervical abnormalities/cervical cancer, personally or through a friend/relative. Methods We conducted a thematic analysis of comments expressing personal history or a family/friend history of cervical abnormalities/cervical cancer as a reason for opposing changes to the cervical screening program. The comments were taken from a 20% random sample of 19,633 comments posted on the “Change.org” petition “Stop May 1st Changes to Pap Smears – Save Women's Lives” in February–March 2017. Results There were 831 (20.8%) commenters who reported that they were concerned about a change in screening due to: feelings of increased personal vulnerability to cervical cancer due to their own personal history of cervical abnormalities; comparison of extended screening intervals and later age of first screening to their own experiences; and a perception of increased personal risk due to family history. Conclusion Women previously affected by cervical abnormalities or cervical cancer, personally or through a friend/relative, expressed concern about changes to cervical screening due to perceived increased risk and feeling vulnerable due to personal history.

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Gildersleeve, Jessica. "Trauma, Memory and Landscape in Queensland: Women Writing ‘a New Alphabet of Moss and Water’." Queensland Review 19, no. 2 (December 2012): 205–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2012.23.

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The cultural association of Queensland with a condition of imagination or unreality has a strong history. Queensland has always ‘retained much of its quality as an abstraction, an idea’, asserts Thea Astley in her famous essay on the state's identity (Astley 1976: 263). In one of the most quoted descriptions of Queensland's literary representation, Pat Buckridge draws attention to its ‘othering’, suggesting that Queensland possesses ‘a different sense of distance, different architecture, a different apprehension of time, a distinctive preoccupation with personal eccentricity, and . . . a strong sense of cultural antitheses’ (1976: 30). Rosie Scott comes closest to the concerns of this present article when she asserts that this so-called difference ‘is definitely partly to do with the landscape. In Brisbane, for instance, the rickety old wooden Queenslanders drenched in bougainvillea, the palms, the astounding number of birds even in Red Hill where I lived, the jacarandas, are all unique in Australia’ (quoted in Sheahan-Bright and Glover 2002: xv). For Vivienne Muller, Buckridge's ‘cultural antitheses’ are most clearly expressed in precisely this interpretation of Queensland as a place somewhere between imagined wilderness and paradise (2001: 72). Thus, as Gillian Whitlock suggests, such differences are primarily fictional constructs that feed ‘an image making process founded more on nationalist debates about city and bush, centre and periphery, the Southern states versus the Deep North than on any “real” sense of regionalism’ (quoted in Muller 2001: 80). Queensland, in this reading, is subject to the Orientalist discourse of an Australian national identity in which the so-called civilisation of the south-eastern urban capitals necessitates a dark ‘other’. I want to draw out this understanding of the landscape as it is imagined in Queensland women's writing. Gail Reekie (1994: 8) suggests that, ‘Women's sense of place, of region, is powerfully constructed by their marginality to History.’ These narratives do assert Queensland's ‘difference’, but as part of an articulation of psychological extremity experienced by those living on the edges of a simultaneously ideological and geographically limited space. The Queensland landscape, I argue, is thus used as both setting for and symbol of traumatic experience.

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Hawgood, Barbara J. "Professor Sir William Liley (1929–83): New Zealand Perinatal Physiologist." Journal of Medical Biography 13, no. 2 (May 2005): 82–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096777200501300205.

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William (Bill) Liley received his MB ChB from Otago University, Dunedin (New Zealand), in 1954. Under the guidance of the neurophysiologist Professor J C Eccles (1903–97), he carried out major research on neuromuscular transmission, both as an undergraduate at Otago University and as a postgraduate at the Australian National University at Canberra. In 1957 Bill Liley switched to research in obstetrics at the Women's National Hospital at Auckland in New Zealand. He refined the diagnostic procedure for rhesus haemolytic disease of the newborn and was able to predict its severity. Liley developed the technique of intrauterine transfusion of rhesus-negative blood for severely affected fetuses and led the team that carried out the first successful fetal transfusions in the world. He was a passionate advocate of the medical and societal rights of the unborn child.

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Still, Leonie. "Women in management: A personal retrospective." Journal of Management & Organization 15, no. 5 (November 2009): 555–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1833367200002406.

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The status of women in employment in general and in management in particular has interested researchers in Australia since the mid-1970s, although interest in women's industrial and occupational employment segregation and pay inequality has an even longer history. However, this overview concentrates on developments in the ‘women in management’ field since the 1970s, primarily because of the concerted and concentrated efforts to raise the employment status of women since that time.The overview also concentrates on the Australian experience, in an attempt to determine if ‘the more things change the more they remain the same’ or if actual change and progress has been made. My credentials for undertaking this retrospective are that I have been researching in the women in management area since the early 1980s and have tracked the main changes, influences and dimensions since that time. Readers who are expecting a critique of the impact of feminism and other ideologies in the area will be disappointed. My research perspective is, and always has been, managerial and organizational. I will thus not be mentioning a whole raft of substantive thinkers and researchers from other perspectives who have contributed to this area over the years. To assist the process of review, I have divided developments into a number of eras to illustrate the progression of both policy and research over the various periods.

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Still, Leonie. "Women in management: A personal retrospective." Journal of Management & Organization 15, no. 5 (November 2009): 555–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.5172/jmo.15.5.555.

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The status of women in employment in general and in management in particular has interested researchers in Australia since the mid-1970s, although interest in women's industrial and occupational employment segregation and pay inequality has an even longer history. However, this overview concentrates on developments in the ‘women in management’ field since the 1970s, primarily because of the concerted and concentrated efforts to raise the employment status of women since that time.The overview also concentrates on the Australian experience, in an attempt to determine if ‘the more things change the more they remain the same’ or if actual change and progress has been made. My credentials for undertaking this retrospective are that I have been researching in the women in management area since the early 1980s and have tracked the main changes, influences and dimensions since that time. Readers who are expecting a critique of the impact of feminism and other ideologies in the area will be disappointed. My research perspective is, and always has been, managerial and organizational. I will thus not be mentioning a whole raft of substantive thinkers and researchers from other perspectives who have contributed to this area over the years. To assist the process of review, I have divided developments into a number of eras to illustrate the progression of both policy and research over the various periods.

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