The inspirational Pearl Gibbs: Challenging norms about Aboriginal women

by Managing Editor Posted on July 8, 2018

Dr Stephanie Gilbert commemorates this year’s NAIDOC theme – Because of Her, We Can – by examining why Pearl Gibbs’ contributions to the fight for Aboriginal rights should be remembered by all Australians. In 2018, we turn our attention in … Continue reading →

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Gender, Media, and Leadership: The Case of Julia Gillard

by Managing Editor Posted on June 25, 2018

Political scientist Linda Trimble reflects on her new book, Ms. Prime Minister: Gender, Media, and Leadership (University of Toronto Press, 2017). I started writing Ms. Prime Minister: Gender, Media, and Leadership well before Julia Gillard won the top job in Australia. Intending … Continue reading →

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Q&A with Melanie Oppenheimer: An AHA early career researchers series

by Managing Editor Posted on June 11, 2018

The Australian Historical Association‘s network of Early Career Researchers continues its Q&A interview series with Australian historians. Here, we repost their interview with Melanie Oppenheimer. Melanie Oppenheimer Professor and Chair of History, Flinders University 1. Before you were an academic, you … Continue reading →

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“The Cultural Underpinnings of Misogyny”: Mary Beard’s Women & Power

by Managing Editor Posted on May 22, 2018

Lauren Robinson reflects upon classicist Mary Beard’s popular and provocative recent work, Women & Power: A Manifesto (2017). Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto. London: Profile Books, Ltd., 2017. RRP $19.99. ISBN: 9781788160605. Renowned British classicist Mary Beard’s latest offering, Women & Power: … Continue reading →

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‘She looked wild’: Infanticide and insanity in nineteenth-century Victoria

by Managing Editor Posted on April 30, 2018

Continuing our mental health series, Georgina Rychner explores insanity in trials for infanticide in late nineteenth-century Victoria. In the late nineteenth century, a woman charged with murder in Victoria was most likely to be charged with the killing of an … Continue reading →

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“If I had wings”: Helplessness and anxiety among Australian soldiers’ mothers

by Managing Editor Posted on April 24, 2018

To celebrate Anzac Day, Ellen Cresswell reflects on the uncertainty and anxieties soldiers’ mothers experienced for their sons during World War I. There is no word in English, French, or German for a mother who has lost her child. “Widow” … Continue reading →

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Archive stories: Institutionalised women as lost lives?

by Managing Editor Posted on April 16, 2018

As part of our mental health series, Catharine Coleborne considers the histories of institutionalised women and the relationship between researcher, historical subject and archive. In recent years historians have re-imagined the archive as what I call an ‘unstable’ site for … Continue reading →

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