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Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery: Deviance, Desire and the Pursuit of Perfection

by Managing Editor Posted on January 17, 2019

Text of a lecture given by Camille Nurka at the Women in Time Symposium, 30 November 2018, UTAS, Hobart, in association with the Australian Women’s History Network I would like to say thank you to Paige Gleeson, Honey Dower, Frieda … Continue reading →

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MENTOR Workshop 2018: Six key pieces of career advice for PhDs and ECRs

by Managing Editor Posted on January 13, 2019

Hollie Pich and Marama Whyte co-organised Professor Glenda Sluga’s recent MENTOR workshop. They review the event, and give six key pieces of advice from the event for emerging scholars. Like all industries, academia presents specific challenges to women and gender-diverse … Continue reading →

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Listening to homeless women: History and the role of the media in the campaign for better policy

by Managing Editor Posted on January 8, 2019

An exploration of the media positioning of homeless women across Australian history by Anne O’Brien. This piece was originally published by the ABC on 12 December 2018. One of the less remarked upon by-products of the neoliberal ascendancy is the … Continue reading →

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Top 10 for 2018

by Managing Editor Posted on January 7, 2019

VIDA blog Managing Editors Ana Stevenson and Alana Piper reflect on the year and share VIDA’s Top 10 posts for 2018. The year 2018 has been another exciting one for us at VIDA blog. In July, we celebrated our second … Continue reading →

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Conference Review: The Campaign for Women’s Suffrage

by Managing Editor Posted on December 31, 2018

Ciara Stewart reviews the 2018 UK Women’s History Network conference held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of partial suffrage for British women. From 31 August to 1 September 2018, I had the privilege of attending and speaking at the UK … Continue reading →

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Representing (white) Man: The Problem with Museums

by Managing Editor Posted on December 28, 2018

Gemmia Burden explores the problematic history of the relationship between museum practice, gender and race, and museums’ privileging of white men. The recent appointment of Anthea M. Hartig as Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) was … Continue reading →

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The Women of Old Ararat Gaol and J Ward Asylum

by Managing Editor Posted on December 11, 2018

Jacqui Sanders explores the lives of the women who were imprisoned in Old Ararat Gaol and the J Ward Asylum during the nineteenth century. Perched on a hill in Ararat, nestled behind the perennials, natives, ferns, and alpines in Alexandra … Continue reading →

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Victims of domestic violence less deserving of justice?

by Managing Editor Posted on November 22, 2018

Lisa Featherstone and Andy Kaladelfos explore how history repeats itself when it comes to domestic violence and the criminal justice system. Please be advised that this content contains graphic descriptions of violence that may be distressing to readers. Last week … Continue reading →

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Waiting women: female employment on Pacific passenger liners

by Managing Editor Posted on November 14, 2018

Frances Steel offers insight into the world of the women who worked on American luxury passenger liners crossing the Pacific from the 1950s. In the maritime world, service work was long dominated by men. Women were first employed in small … Continue reading →

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Failing to lead by example: How Australian politics is facilitating a culture of violence against women

by Managing Editor Posted on October 29, 2018

The Liberal Party of Australia’s gender problem, Ella Kuskoff argues, is more related to questions about violence against women than we might like to think. Search “women in politics” online and you will be confronted with a long list of … Continue reading →

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