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Gender, Women & Feminism

(See also Citizenship & Suffrage; Politics, Government & Law)


Social Policy in Western Australia, Charlie Fox (ed.), 25, 2007


Articles

  • Baby Farming in Western Australia: The Case Against Alice Mitchell, 1907
    Penelope Hetherington
  • The Origins of Mental Health Social Work in Western Australia: A Psychiatric ‘Re-conception’
    Marcia Foley
  • ‘I am a Poor Woman’: Gender, Poor Relief and the Poorhouse in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Western Australia
    Kellie Abbott & Celia Chesney


Building a Colony: the Convict Legacy, Jacqui Sherriff & Anne Brake (eds), 24, 2006

Book or other review

  • Douglas R.G. Sellick (ed.), Venus in Transit: Australia’s Women Travellers 1788 – 1930
    Kellie Abbott

History and Native Title, Christine Choo & Shawn Hollbach (eds), 23, 2003

Book or other reviews

  • David Black and Harry Phillips, eds., Making a Difference: Women in the Western Australian Parliament 1921-1999
    Jasmina Brankovich
  • Patricia Crawford and Philippa Maddern, eds., Women as Australian Citizens: Underlying Histories
    Patricia Grimshaw
  • Jan Gothard, Blue China: Single female emigration to colonial Australia
    Charlotte MacDonald


Wordal, Jill Milroy, John Host & Tom Stannage (eds), 22, 2001

Article

  • ‘We Were Proper Horsemen, Us’: Aboriginal Women – Workers of the Outback
    Beatrice Laufer


Being Australian Women: Belonging, Citizenship and Identity, Cheryl Lange (ed.), 21, 2000

Articles

  • Gender, Ethnicity and Transnational Citizenship: Italian-Australian Experiences
    Loretta Baldassar
  • First Generation Polish Women in Western Australia: Matka Polka and National Identity
    Kerry Evans
  • ‘Just a piece of paper’: Dutch Women in Australia
    Nonja Peters
  • No Man’s Land: Re-orienting Citizenship for Chinese Malaysian Women in Australia
    Jan Ryan
  • ‘I myself think I’m Australian’: Belonging and Identity among Vietnamese-Australian Women
    Cheryl Lange & Diana Nisbet
  • ‘Parted from my origins’: Iranian Women Re-constructing Identity
    Nezhat Toolo & Siavash Shakibaee
  • Croatian and Bosnian Migration to Australia in the 1990s
    Val Colic-Peisker
  • ‘The Good Australians’: Multiculturalism and the Anglo-Indian Diaspora
    Glenn D’Cruz


The Irish in Western Australia, Bob Reece (ed.), 20, 2000

Book or other review

  • Catherine Kovesi Killerby, Ursula Frayne: A Biography
    Rita Farrell


Women and Citizenship: Suffrage Centenary, Patricia Crawford & Judy Skene (eds), 19, 1999

Articles

  • White Women, Aboriginal Women and the Vote in Western Australia
    Patricia Grimshaw & Katherine Ellinghaus
  • Votes For All Women: Racialised Silences in Western Australian Suffrage Historiography
    Jasmina Brankovich
  • Images of Women in Western Australian Politics: The Suffragist, Edith Cowan and Carmen Lawrence
    Joan Eveline & Michael Booth
  • A Challenge to Human Rights: Aboriginal Women in the West Kimberley
    Christine Choo
  • Amending the Suffrage Story: Local Government in Western Australia 1876-1999
    Judy Skene
  • ‘Who Would Sew His Buttons on?’: Gender Roles and Rhetoric in the Western Australian Parliament 1893-1899
    Serie Jones
  • ‘A Truly Great Australian Woman’: Jean Beadle’s Work among Western Australian Women and Children 1901-1942
    Bobbie Oliver
  • A Citizen of Australia and of the World: A Reappraisal of Bessie Mabel Rischbieth
    Dianne Davidson
  • Mother, Rice and Nation in a Welfare State
    Marilyn Lake
  • ‘The Great Bond of Motherhood’: Maternal Citizenship and Perth Feminists in the 1920s
    Claire Ozich
  • Aliens to Ethics: The Politics of Citizenship
    Christine Gillgren
  • ‘You Have to Make Some Sort of Commitment’: Polish Migrant Women Taking Australian Citizenship in Western Australia 1947-1997
    Margot Clifford
  • Religion and Public Life: Catholic Women for this World and the Next
    Katharine Massam
  • ‘Take Heart’: Women’s Process in the First Campaign of the Nuclear Disarmament Party, Western Australia
    Sharon Davies
  • Taking Action Against Domestic Violence in the 1970s: Nardine Women’s Refuge and Radical Feminism
    Suellen Murray
  • Women at the Constitutional Convention: Small Steps – Great Strides
    Clare Thompson
  • Women and Children as Subjects in Western Australian History
    Penelope Hetherington
Book or other review

  • Maryon Allbrook, Journeys of Hope
    Loretta Baldassar


Perspectives on Sport and Society, Ed Jaggard & Jan Ryan (eds), 18, 1997

Article

  • Debating Horseracing: Class and Gender as Rhetorical Strategies 1905-1917
    Charlie Fox


Historical Traces, Jenny Gregory (ed.), 17, 1997

Article

  • Capturing Gender? Identifying Spaces in Perth’s Forrest Chase
    Matthew Allen & Jane Long
Book or other reviews

  • Patricia Grimshaw, Susan Janson & Marian Quartly, Freedom Bound I: Documents on Women in Colonial Australia
    Bev Thiele
  • Marilyn Lake & Katie Holmes, Freedom Bound II: Documents on Women in Modern Australia
    Bev Thiele


Asian Orientations, Jan Gothard (ed.), 16, 1995

Article

  • Japanese War Brides in Western Australia: Immigration and Assimilation in the Nineteen Fifties
    Julie Easton


Media, Politics & Identity, Brian Shoesmith (ed.), 15, 1994

Book or other review

  • Justina Williams, Anger and Love
    Amirah Inglis


Historical Refractions, Charlie Fox (ed.), 14, 1993

Article

  • Domestic Help: Daughters, Servants and Domestic Work in Western Australia, 1900-1960
    Ruth Barton
Book or other reviews

  • Alice Nannup, Stephen Kinnane and Lauren Marsh, When the Pelican Laughed
    Peggy Brock
  • Pat Malcolm, First Cuts are Deepest
    John Hirst


Private Enterprise, Government and Society, Frank Broeze (ed.), 13, 1992

Book or other review

  • Douglas E. Darbyshire, In Time for Lunch
    Jan Gothard


Aspects of Ethnicity, Richard Bosworth & Margot Melia (eds), 12, 1991

Article

  • Conversations with Italian Women: Close Encounters of a Culinary Kind
    Michal Bosworth
Book or other review

  • Alexandra Hasluck, Portrait with Background
    Anne O’Brien


Western Australia Between the Wars 1919-1939, Jenny Gregory (ed.), 11, 1990

Book or other reviews

  • Norma King, Daughters of Midas: Pioneer Women of the Eastern Goldfields
    Raelene Frances
  • Susan Jane Hunt, Spinifex and Hessian: Women’s Lives in North Western Australia 1860-1900
    Raewyn Dalziel


Celebrations in Western Australian History, Lenore Layman & Tom Stannage (eds), 10, 1989

Articles

  • International Women’s Day
    Wendy Brady
  • A Netball Celebration: The First School-girls’ Netball Team, 1956
    Jan Ryan
Book or other review

  • Patricia Crawford and Myrna Tonkinson, The Missing Chapters: Women Staff at The University of Western Australia 1963-1987
    Patricia Grimshaw


Religion and Society in Western Australia, John Tonkin (ed.), 9, 1987

Report

  • Ordained Women in the Uniting Church: Comments on Three Case Studies
    Merrilyn Watson


Women in Western Australian History, Patricia Crawford (ed.), 7, 1983

Articles

  • The History of Australian Women
    Penelope Hetherington
  • People of Glass: Women Becoming Visible in the History of Western Australia
    Phyl Garrick
  • ‘Serfs of the Sodden Scone’? Women Workers in the Western Australian Hotel and Catering Industry 1900-1925
    Wendy Brady
  • Women’s Responses to War Work in Western Australia 1942-1946
    Gail Reekie
  • The Politics of Experience: Women in the Western Australian Clothing Trade, 1950-1970
    Christine Owen
  • Anorexia Nervosa
    Helen Maddocks
  • Document: Deborah Watt’s Narrative, 1897-1914
    Jocelyn Treasure (ed.)
  • Special Topic: Teaching about women in nineteenth-century Australia
    Margaret Brown & Patricia Crawford
Book or other reviews

  • Geraldine Byrne, Valiant Women: Letters from the Foundation Sisters of Mercy in Western Australia, 1845-1849
    F. G. Clarke
  • S. M. Kelly, Proud Heritage
    Ian Crawford
  • Edith Jacobson, Tinctures and Tact
    Margaret Brown


Fred Alexander: A Tribute, Brian de Garis (ed.), 6, 1988

Book or other review

  • Edith Cowan: Feminist or Philanthropist?
    Marian Simms


Bosses, Workers and Unemployed, Lenore Layman (ed.), 5, 1982

Book or other reviews

  • Daphne Popham (ed.), Reflections: Profiles of 150 Women Who Helped Make Western Australia’s History
    Margaret Anderson
  • Julie Lewis, On Air: the Story of Catherine King and the ABC Women’s Session
    Ronda Jamieson


Studies in Western Australian History, 1, 1977

Book or other review

  • Ric Throssell, Wild Weeds and Wind Flowers
    Veronica Brady
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