Australian Women's History Network

Alecia Simmonds explores how the way women’s bodies smell has been regulated across time. Is there anything more regulated than a woman’s body? Plucked, shaved, waxed, bleached, vajazzled, starved, toned, tanned, botoxed, implanted, pulled up, pushed out and underwired within … Continue reading →

Alana Piper shares research from Criminal Characters, a project investigating the criminal careers and life histories of Australian offenders from the end of the convict period through to the Second World War. Although male offenders far outnumbered women, both historically … Continue reading →

Leah Williams Veazey explores the intersections of migration, motherhood, and digital cultures in contemporary Australia. Migration and motherhood are both significant life changes. They disrupt social infrastructures, requiring the rapid acquisition of new knowledge and new networks, and the renegotiation … Continue reading →

Kiera Lindsey explores the role of imagination in the historical research process as part of her DECRA speculative biographical project on the colonial female artist Adelaide Ironside. Most historians can recall an exhilarating moment in the archives when a reference … Continue reading →