Anna Temby explores the fears aroused by that lethal item of female headwear – the hatpin – in federation Australia. In the early twentieth century, hatpins replaced the corset as the deadliest item of women’s fashion. Bonnet-style hats, fastened under … Continue reading
Journalist Kate Evans reveals the influence that achieving a PhD in history has had on her working life. Last week I was interviewed about my 2001 PhD, a cultural history of press photography in Australia. It was the first time … Continue reading
Ana Stevenson reviews a recent research monograph about gender and Game of Thrones in conjunction with the HBO Season 7 television premiere. Anne Gjelsvik and Rikke Schubart, eds. Women of Ice and Fire: Gender, Game of Thrones, and Multiple Media Engagements (New York: … Continue reading
Lynn Abrams offers a short reflection on feminist oral history practice based on her Kathleen Fitzpatrick Memorial Lecture at the University of Melbourne in April 2017. The full recording of the lecture can be found here. Oral history has been … Continue reading
Laura Rademaker reflects on the challenges of bringing a young baby to an academic conference which offers no childcare. This year, I took a four-month-old baby to the annual Australian Historical Association Conference (AHA). The conference was excellent. Bringing a … Continue reading
VIDA blog’s Australian Women Writers Challenge book reviews continue with Marian Lorrison’s analysis of another Australian women’s history classic. Susan Magarey, Passions of the First Wave Feminists (Sydney: University of NSW Press, 2001), ISBN 0-86840-780-1 (paperback). I have long been a fan of … Continue reading
Jordy Silverstein reviews the 2017 Berkshire Conference on histories of women, genders and sexualities. In the last few days of May, the planes travelling from Australia to New York were delightfully laden with feminist historians. We were all headed to … Continue reading
VIDA blog’s Australian Women Writers Challenge book reviews continue with Deb Lee-Talbot’s analysis of an Australian women’s history classic. Patricia Grimshaw, Marilyn Lake, Ann McGrath, and Marian Quartly, Creating A Nation: 1788-1990 (Ringwood: Penguin, 1994), ISBN 0-14-025905-8 (paperback). As an optimistic bibliophile, … Continue reading
The Australian Historical Association‘s network of Early Career Researchers has commenced a Q&A interview series with Australian historians. Here, we repost their interview with Australian Women’s History Network member Ann McGrath. Ann McGrath Professor of History and Director of the … Continue reading
VIDA: Blog of the Australian Women’s History Network invites applications from Australasian postgraduate students for an exciting new initiative: postgraduate editorial assistants. To celebrate the one-year anniversary of VIDA blog in July 2017, we are seeking up to two postgraduate editorial assistants to … Continue reading