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Australian Women’s History
Network News: December 2011
This has been a busy year of reorganisation and activity. The new website was launched (http://www.asuwhn.org.au), and will be expanded to include more resources in 2012. A new email list has been collated, and members are encouraged to send in news and items of interest for distribution on this list.
The Network’s annual symposium, on the theme of ‘Utopian Visions,’ was held in Launceston in July. Preparations are underway for the 2012 symposium, which will be held in conjunction with the Australian Historical Association conference in Adelaide. Enquiries about this should be directed to the convenor Catherine Kevin
(catherine.kevin@flinders.edu.au).
Most significantly, Lilith: A Feminist History Journal has been re-launched and adopted as the official journal of the Australian Women’s History Network. The December 2011 issue includes articles based on papers presented at the Network’s symposium on ‘Utopian Visions’, by Laura Rademaker, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, Jennifer Caligari, Ellan Warne and Jane Carey, a forum on Judith Bennett’s book History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism, by Katherine L. French, Ruth Mazo Karras, Pavla Miller and Julia Adams, and the republication of Margaret Henderson’s ‘Wonders Taken for Signs: The Cultural Activism of the Australian Women’s Movement as Avant-Garde Reformation’, with responses from Zora Simic and Ann Genovese. Further details are available on the new Lilith website: www.lilithjournal.org.au.
In other news from members:
The Australian Women and Leadership Project, a multidisciplinary collaboration between Australian scholars, collecting institutions and feminist organisations, received funding from the Australian government in 2010 to conduct research and promote new understandings of the historical and contemporary dimensions of women’s leadership since 1900. The core aim is to enable national cultural institutions to present a more gender-balanced account of social and political movements by:
This has been a busy year of reorganisation and activity. The new website was launched (http://www.asuwhn.org.au), and will be expanded to include more resources in 2012. A new email list has been collated, and members are encouraged to send in news and items of interest for distribution on this list.
The Network’s annual symposium, on the theme of ‘Utopian Visions,’ was held in Launceston in July. Preparations are underway for the 2012 symposium, which will be held in conjunction with the Australian Historical Association conference in Adelaide. Enquiries about this should be directed to the convenor Catherine Kevin
(catherine.kevin@flinders.edu.au).
Most significantly, Lilith: A Feminist History Journal has been re-launched and adopted as the official journal of the Australian Women’s History Network. The December 2011 issue includes articles based on papers presented at the Network’s symposium on ‘Utopian Visions’, by Laura Rademaker, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, Jennifer Caligari, Ellan Warne and Jane Carey, a forum on Judith Bennett’s book History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism, by Katherine L. French, Ruth Mazo Karras, Pavla Miller and Julia Adams, and the republication of Margaret Henderson’s ‘Wonders Taken for Signs: The Cultural Activism of the Australian Women’s Movement as Avant-Garde Reformation’, with responses from Zora Simic and Ann Genovese. Further details are available on the new Lilith website: www.lilithjournal.org.au.
In other news from members:
The Australian Women and Leadership Project, a multidisciplinary collaboration between Australian scholars, collecting institutions and feminist organisations, received funding from the Australian government in 2010 to conduct research and promote new understandings of the historical and contemporary dimensions of women’s leadership since 1900. The core aim is to enable national cultural institutions to present a more gender-balanced account of social and political movements by:
- documenting the extent and nature of women’s leadership within democratic change;
- providing new understandings of how non-Indigenous and Indigenous women have exerted social and political leadership;
- making all new information and resources generated by the project immediately available through web publishing, including the development of an Encyclopedia that links biographical entries and thematic entries.
- Work on the project commenced officially in March 2011 and will run until March 2013. Some significant outcomes are already ‘in the press’, with more to come. They include:
- a print on demand collection of essays: Fiona Davis, Nell Musgrove and Judy Smart (eds) Founders, Firsts and Feminists: Women Leaders in Twentieth Century Australia.(Available at: http://www.bookshop.unimelb.edu.au/bookshop/p?IS.9781921775680);
- a National Conference to be held at the Museum of Australian Democracy and opened by the Governor General, Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce. Women Leadership and Democracy in Australia will be held December 1-2, 2011;
- thirty interviews with a range of women leaders across Australia accessible through the National Library of Australia’s Oral History and Folklore Collection;
- research and interviews with women leaders in the environmental and consumer rights movements, online at http://janeelix.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/women-leaders-social-change/.
Work in progress includes:
- thematic essays and biographical entries for an online Encyclopedia of Australian Women Leaders and Leadership;
- exciting oral history projects that focus on Aboriginal women’s leadership;
- using the collection of the National Film and Sound Archives to research women leaders in the audiovisual industries, and to illustrate the lives of all women;
- research in the National Archives of Australia to discover what government records can tell us about the way women leaders connected with government;
- a special edition of Labour History featuring the experience of labour women leaders;
- a special exhibition featuring women leaders in the Australian Nursing Federation;
For further information, please contact Professor Patricia Grimshaw at the University of Melbourne. p.grimshaw@unimelb.edu.au
PUBLICATIONS
Carol Helmstadter & Judith Godden,
Nursing Before Nightingale, 1815-1899 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011).
Judith Godden, Australia’s
Controversial Matron: Gwen Burbidge and Nursing Reform (Sydney: College of Nursing, 2011).
Catherine
Speck, Heysen to Heysen: Selected letters of Hans Heysen and Nora
Heysen, National Library of Australia,
2011.
Angela Woollacott, Race and the Modern Exotic: Three ‘Australian’ Women
on Global Display (Monash University Publishing, 2011).
Compiled by Jane Carey.
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