Commissioning Editor Ruby Ekkel launches a new VIDA series, exploring the intersections of environmental and women’s history. ‘Make the back-yard the embryo of your future desires. As a country we are not wanting in manhood, or the attributes which count … Continue reading
In this blog, Tinka Harvard explores how Black women’s joy functions as a radical, political, and historical form of resistance, healing, and self-affirmation in the face of systemic racism, sexism, and intersectional invisibility. A great deal of emotional, physical, spiritual, … Continue reading
Richard Fotheringham’s research on entertainer Jenny Howard leads him to the idea of ‘echoic biography’. Two years ago, the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) asked me to research and write an entry for the British-Australian popular singer/comedian Jenny Howard (1902–1996). … Continue reading
In this blog, Lauren Samuelsson explores the colour white and its links with the tradwife movement and white supremacy. In mid-2024, the #tradwife hashtag was trending on social media platforms. At the end of July, The Times of London had … Continue reading
In this blog Ming Gao explores the long history of the sexualisation and objectification of women through advertising. Sexualised and stereotyped images of women remain deeply embedded in today’s advertising. Australia’s media landscape, for example, still relies on gender stereotypes. … Continue reading
In this blog, Peter Woodley explores the place of gender in the Queensland Bush Workers’ Strike of 1891. The Queensland bush workers’ strike of 1891 was, at face value, an almost exclusively male affair. Paid workers in the shearing sheds … Continue reading
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, 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, particularly … 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