Elmarí Whyte explores how British women and girls were coerced into domestic service in the 1920s, and the role of working-class parents in that coercion. This post is based on an article that appears in the 2020 issue of Lilith, available … Continue reading
Alexandra Wallis examines the nineteenth-century use of “moral treatment” to enforce traditional gender roles on female patients suffering postnatal depression. This post is based on an article that appears in the 2020 issue of Lilith, available now on open access here. … Continue reading
Bianka Balanzategui examines the presence of women, white and of colour, in the “masculine” spaces of tropical north Queensland’s sugar plantations. This post is based on an article that appears in the 2020 issue of Lilith, available now on open access … Continue reading
Jessie Matheson explores how “out-sized” rural women used the women’s pages of a 1930s newspaper to counter discourses about their bodies. This post is based on an article that appears in the 2020 issue of Lilith, available now on open access … Continue reading
Kerrie Handasyde explores how dress played an important role in perceptions of the religious identity and authority of the first women preachers in Australia. This post is based on an article that appears in the 2020 issue of Lilith, available now … Continue reading
Belinda Eslick considers how Luce Irigaray’s philosophies can transform the way we think about the radical nature of women’s political history in Australia. This post is based on an article that appears in the 2020 issue of Lilith, available now on … Continue reading
Rebecca Louise Clarke considers how the maternal experience is shared and archived in today’s digital museum spaces. This post is based on an article that appears in the 2020 issue of Lilith, available now on open access here. The merging of … Continue reading
Toni Church explores how popular understandings of the past can be deepened and transformed by enlivening how colonial women are represented in curatorial language and physical embodiments in Australian museums and galleries. This post is based on an article that appears … Continue reading
Jennifer Caligari examines how temperance and suffrage activist Bessie Harrison Lee used the theatrics of protest to promote her agenda. This post is based on an article that appears in the 2020 issue of Lilith, available now on open access here. … Continue reading
Rachel Harris and Michelle Staff reflect on the year’s events to date, and what it means for the future of feminism and feminist historians. This article is based on the editorial that appears in the 2020 issue of Lilith, available … Continue reading