Category Archives: Research blogs

Gender and regenerative histories of landcare in Australia

by Managing Editor Posted on November 18, 2025

In this blog, Andrea Gaynor expands on the themes of her keynote at the 2025 Australian Historical Association Conference. As tree-planting season wound up in southern Australia and the pottiputkis were put away, the warming weather brought new growth and … Continue reading →

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Wise and Wonderful Women: A history of academic women in South Australia since the 1970s

by Managing Editor Posted on September 30, 2025

Margaret Allen reflects on an exhibition and research project exploring the academic working lives of women in South Australia since 1970. The Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender at the University of Adelaide has been researching the working lives … Continue reading →

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Feminism and eugenics: strange bedfellows?

by Managing Editor Posted on August 8, 2025

Bridget Brooklyn explores the historical relationships between eugenics and feminist movements in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Australia. From the time of the suffrage campaigns, many feminist claims to equality drew on the essentialist beliefs enshrined in ‘separate spheres’ ideology. They argued … Continue reading →

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Camp Names and Vernacular: Queensland’s Lavender Language

by Managing Editor Posted on July 30, 2025

In this blog, prominent LGBTQIA+ Rights Activist Bill Rutkin (OAM) and Contributing Editor Michael Stockwell explore how homosexual men living in Queensland during the Bjelke-Petersen era used lavender language to circumvent public and political vilification. Homosexuality: Bjelke-Petersen’s Convenient Scapegoat “I … Continue reading →

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Heavenly Creatures and the Politics of Feeling Good: Black Women’s Joy and Why it Matters

by Managing Editor Posted on June 17, 2025

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 →

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White Aprons, White Sauce, White … Supremacy? The culinary politics of internet ‘tradwives’

by Managing Editor Posted on June 4, 2025

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 →

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