Category Archives: AWW book reviews

Beyond the goldfields: Australian migration to early-twentieth-century Shanghai

by Managing Editor Posted on August 30, 2017

VIDA blog’s Australian Women Writers Challenge book review continues with Deb Lee-Talbot’s review of a recent book by Sophie Loy-Wilson about Australian migration to China during the early twentieth century. Dr Sophie Loy-Wilson, Australians in Shanghai: Race, Rights and Nation in Treaty … Continue reading →

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From puritanical wowser to passionate reformer: The re-making of Australia’s first-wave feminists

by Managing Editor Posted on June 25, 2017

VIDA blog’s Australian Women Writers Challenge book reviews continue with Marian Lorrison’s analysis of another Australian women’s history classic. Susan Magarey, Passions of the First Wave Feminists (Sydney: University of NSW Press, 2001), ISBN 0-86840-780-1 (paperback). I have long been a fan of … Continue reading →

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Fashioning a woman’s place: The creation of an inclusive Australian history

by Managing Editor Posted on June 14, 2017

VIDA blog’s Australian Women Writers Challenge book reviews continue with Deb Lee-Talbot’s analysis of an Australian women’s history classic. Patricia Grimshaw, Marilyn Lake, Ann McGrath, and Marian Quartly, Creating A Nation: 1788-1990 (Ringwood: Penguin, 1994), ISBN 0-14-025905-8 (paperback). As an optimistic bibliophile, … Continue reading →

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“A Book of Lies”: Settler impressions of Aboriginal women

by Managing Editor Posted on May 7, 2017

VIDA blog’s Australian Women Writers Challenge book reviews continue with Lauren Robinson’s analysis of a book about colonial Australian history. Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this blog may contain the images and names of people who have since passed … Continue reading →

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From the fields of war to the streets of suburbia: A centenary of the Australian Red Cross

by Managing Editor Posted on February 3, 2017

VIDA blog’s Australian Women Writers Challenge book review series begins with Deb Lee-Talbot’s analysis of a book about how the Red Cross became as a significant Australian institution. Melanie Oppenheimer, The Power of Humanity: 100 Years of Australian Red Cross 1914-2014 (Sydney: Sydney South, NSW … Continue reading →

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