Lilith is published annually.

Lilith 30 (2025) is now available open access through ANU Press.

Past issues of the journal can also be accessed through the Informit database.

INTRODUCTION

Alison Downham Moore; Huda Syyed; Zoe Smith; Tianna Killoran; Nadia Gregory

ARTICLES

‘The girls’ frolic’: Speculating on same-sex military mock weddings, 1914-1919
Nadia Bailey

Eugenics and feminism in early twentieth-century Australia: The work of Dr Mary Booth
Bridget Brooklyn

The Carrousel and Madame Arthur: Parisian transfeminine cabarets in the 1950s and 1960s
Nancy Bruseker

Aiming at true happiness: Conduct literature and British women’s ideas of happiness during the late eighteenth century
Lani Gerbi

Power imbalances between female domestic servants and their employers in the South Australian courtroom, 1836-1880
Jade Hastings

‘Talking Lowd and laughing gay, everyone has so much to say’: Working girls’ clubs, spoken art and political organising at Chicago settlement houses, 1890-1920
Fiona Maxwell

PAPERS FROM THE LILITH 2023 SYMPOSIUM, GENDER AND JOY

Black women’s joy and why it matters: Heavenly creatures and the politics of feeling good
Tinka Harvard

Uncovering the contributions of women in pottery making
May Okafor

REVIEWS

Report on the Australian historical association conference 2024, ‘home truths’, 1-4 July, Flinders University, city and Bedford Park campuses, Kaurna Country
Tianna Killoran,Nadia Gregory

Rethinking the public fetus: Historical perspectives on the visual culture of pregnancy
Paige Donaghy

Becoming a mother: An Australian history
Tess Ezzy

Wombs of empire: Population discourses and biopolitics in modern Japan
Ming Gao

Sisters in peace: The Women’s International League for peace and freedom in Australia, 1915-2015
Kerrie Handasyde

Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the revolution
Meghan Hopper

Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s invisible life
Mamta Sachan Kumar

Courting: An intimate history of love and the law
Zara Saunders

Feminisms of our mothers: Essays from Pakistan
Huda Syyed