Category Archives: Inspirational women

A Filmic History Of Harassment From 9 to 5: Disclosure to Bombshell

by Managing Editor Posted on July 25, 2023

Susan Hopkins explores a filmic history of sexual harassment through films containing an array of representations across film culture. This filmic analysis highlights the changes and consistencies throughout time. Lived histories of feminism are reflected and reworked in films and … Continue reading →

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Japanese Businesswomen in North Queensland’s Commercial Landscape, 1887-1941

by Managing Editor Posted on January 31, 2023

If you venture into the heat and humidity of North Queensland, you won’t only find a history of Japanese migrants. You will also uncover unexpected stories of independent and mobile Japanese businesswomen. When I began researching the Japanese migrants in … Continue reading →

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Irreverent women, reading, and colonisation

by Managing Editor Posted on January 19, 2023

The letters and insights left by Ann Rusden into colonial New South Wales women’s intellectual life plays a significant role in the history of feminism by sharing ideas of the female self and the role women played throughout colonisation. Ann … Continue reading →

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Self-Education and Intelligent Conversation: The Geelong Ladies Reading Circle, 1890-1929

by Managing Editor Posted on December 20, 2022

Jacquelyn Baker explores the activities of the Geelong Ladies Reading Circle between 1907 and 1927, a time when education fell outside the reach of most women. Historical Member: Dr Mary De Garis Born: 16 December 1881 Death: 18 November 1963 … Continue reading →

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The inspirational Pearl Gibbs: Challenging norms about Aboriginal women

by Managing Editor Posted on July 8, 2018

Dr Stephanie Gilbert commemorates this year’s NAIDOC theme – Because of Her, We Can – by examining why Pearl Gibbs’ contributions to the fight for Aboriginal rights should be remembered by all Australians. In 2018, we turn our attention in … Continue reading →

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Defending the Character and Conduct of Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1803

by Managing Editor Posted on March 7, 2018

For International Women’s Day 2018, Shane Greentree explores how the the late-eighteenth-century press commemorated the legacy of Mary Wollstonecraft. The 1797 death of Mary Wollstonecraft and the furious response to her widower William Godwin’s Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication … Continue reading →