In this blog, Vera Mackie and the Australian Women’s History Network remember Emeritus Professor Lyndall Ryan, AO, FAHA (1943–2024). We were saddened to hear one year ago of the passing of Emeritus Professor Lyndall Ryan, AO, FAHA (1943–2024). Ryan was … Continue reading
In this blog Dr Cassandra Byrnes discusses Queensland’s historic use of the vilification of abortion as a political tool to support conservative values. On a global scale, we have seen how abortion is a contentious issue in the United States, … Continue reading
Julie Kimber and Phillip Deery explore the challenges of biographical research through the case of Evdokia Petrov. Evdokia Petrov may not have been, to paraphrase Winston Churchill on Russia, a riddle wrapped in a mystery, but she was certainly an … Continue reading
In this blog Dr Kate McAnelly explores the underpinnings of refrigerator mother theory and how it was incorrectly used to blame and vilify mothers as being the cause of their children’s autism. Motherhood in and of itself has long been … Continue reading
VIDA editorial assistant and PhD candidate Michael Stockwell introduces a new blog series exploring historical and contemporary experiences of vilification through gender, sexual orientation and roles associated with them. Vilification, Scapegoats and Silence Vilification is a long held, unfortunate paradigm … Continue reading
In this blog, Caitlin Merlin explores the history of the Ribbon Project and its impact on reducing the AIDS stigma in the early 1990s. It has been said that, ‘there’s a ribbon for everything’. In other words, for every medical … Continue reading
In this blog author Nichola Garvey discusses the experiences of convict women travelling from Britian to Australia aboard notorious transport ship ‘the Neptune’. The captain and the first mate ‘beat women convicts without mercy… like man opposed to man in … Continue reading
Alana Piper’s book Yirranma Place: Stories of a Darlinghurst Corner has recently been published by NewSouth. In this blog, Alana reveals the histories of some of the women whose lives are associated with 262 Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst, and its surrounds. … Continue reading
In this blog biographer Tessa Morris-Suzuki shares her research and insight into the life of Ethel May Punshon, an extraordinary woman whose 106-year life crossed many boundaries. Ethel May Punshon (1882‒1989) – known to all her friends as Monte – … Continue reading
In this blog, Mark Masterson explores the history of homoeroticism in histories from the tenth-century Byzantine empire. Sources from the tenth-century Byzantine empire give us glimpses of a culture of homoeroticism. Men, who were attractive to other men, got ahead … Continue reading