Family and Home

Aitken, Jo. ““The Horrors of Matrimony among the Masses”: Feminist Representations of Wife Beating in England and Australia, 1870-1914.” Journal of Women’s History 19, no. 4 (2007): 107-31.

Allen, Judith A. “The Trials of Abortion in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Australia.” Australian Cultural History 12 (1993): 87-99.

Allen, Judith. “Octavius Beale Reconsidered: Infanticide, Babyfarming and Abortion in Nsw 1880-1939.” In What Rough Beast?: The State and Social Order in Australian History, edited by Sydney Labour History Group, 111-29. Sydney; London; Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1982.

Allen, Judith. “The Invention of the Pathological Family: A Historical Study of Family Violence in N.S.W.”. In Family Violence in Australia, edited by Carol O’Donnell and Jan Craney, 1-27. Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1982.

Allon, Fiona. “At Home in the Suburbs: Domesticity and Nation in Postwar Australia.” History Australia 11, no. 1 (2014): 13-36.

Bagnall, Kate. “‘I Am Nearly Heartbroken About Him’: Stories of Australian Mothers’ Separation from Their ‘Chinese’ Children.” History Australia 1, no. 1 (2003): 30-40.

Baird, Barbara. “’The Incompetent, Barbarous Old Lady Round the Corner’: The Image of the Backyard Abortionist in Pro-Abortion Politics.” Hecate 22, no. 1 (1996): 7-26.

Balint, Ruth. “Alexander and Anastayzia: the separation and search for family among Europe’s displaced.” The History of the Family 22, no. 4 (2017): 432-445.

Bell, Johnny. “Needing a Woman’s Hand: Child Protection and the Problem of Lone Fathers.” History Australia 9, no. 2 (2012): 90-110.

Bell, Johnny. “Putting Dad in the Picture: Fatherhood in the Popular Women’s Magazines of 1950s Australia.” Women’s History Review 22, no. 6 (2013): 904-29.

Bellanta, Melissa. “Business Fashion: Masculinity, Class and Dress in 1870s Australia.” Australian Historical Studies 48, no. 2 (April 3, 2017): 189–212.

Brien, Donna Lee, and Alison Vincent. “Oh, for a French Wife? Australian Women and Culinary Francophilia in Post-War Australia.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 22 (2016): 78-90.

Bronitt, Simon, and Wendy Kukulies-Smith. “Crime, Punishment, Family Violence, and the Cloak of Legal Invisibility.” Journal of Australian Studies 37, no. 3 (September 1, 2013): 390–401.

Caligari, Jennifer. “Bessie Harrison Lee’s Utopian Vision of Marriage and Heredity.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 17/18 (2012): 41-53.

Carmichael, Gordon A. “From Floating Brothels to Suburban Semirespectability: Two Centuries of Nonmarital Pregnancy in Australia.” Journal of Family History 21 (1996): 281-315.

Craik, Jennifer. “Verandahs and Frangipani: Women in the Queensland House.” In On the Edge: Women’s Experiences of Queensland, edited by Gail Reekie, 145-67. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1994.

Damousi, Joy. “Building ‘healthy happy family units’: Aileen Fitzpatrick and reuniting children separated by the Greek Civil War with their families in Australia, 1949-1954.” The History of the Family 22, no. 4 (2017): 466-484.

Davis, Lynne. “Jessie Street and War-Time Child Care.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 6 (1989): 33-49.

Elder, Catriona. ““It Was Hard for Us to Marry Aboriginal”: Some Meanings of Singleness for Aboriginal Women in Australia in the 1930s.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 8 (1993): 114-38.

Ellinghaus, Katherine. Taking Assimilation to Heart: Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887-1937. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

Evans, Tanya. Fractured Families: Life on the Margins of Colonial New South Wales. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2015)

Evans, Tanya. “Secrets and Lies: The Radical Potential of Family History.” History Workshop Journal 71, no. 1 (Spring 2011): 49-73.

Evans, Tanya. “The Use of Memory and Material Culture in the History of the Family in Colonial Australia.” Journal of Australian Studies 36, no. 2 (June 2012): 207-28.

Fahey, Patricia Grimshaw and Charles. “Families and Community in Nineteenth-Century Castlemaine.” In Families in Colonial Australia, edited by Chris McConville Patrica Grimshaw, Ellen McEwen, 83-104. Sydney; London; Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1985.

Fallows, Carol. Love & War: Stories of War Brides from the Great War to Vietnam. Sydney, N.S.W.; London : Bantam Books, 2002.

Faulkner, Rodrick. “Death and the Australian Colonial Family.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 1 (1984): 12-22.

Featherstone, Lisa, and Amanda Kaladelfos. “Hierarchies of Harm and Violence: Historicising Familial Sexual Violence in Australia.” Australian Feminist Studies29, no. 81 (July 3, 2014): 306–24.

Featherstone, Lisa. “‘The One Single Primary Cause’: Divorce, the Family, and Heterosexual Pleasure in Postwar Australia.” Journal of Australian Studies 37, no. 3 (September 1, 2013): 349–63.

Featherstone, Lisa. ““The One Single Primary Cause”: Divorce, the Family, and Heterosexual Pleasure in Postwar Australia.” Journal of Australian Studies 37, no. 3 (2013): 349-63.

Fisher, Shirley. “The Family and the Sydney Economy in the Late Nineteenth Century.” In Families in Colonial Australia, edited by Chris McConville Patrica Grimshaw, Ellen McEwen, 153-62. Sydney; London; Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1985.

Garrick, Phyllis. “Children of the Poor and Industrial Classes in Western Australia, 1829-1880.” In Childhood and Society in Western Australia, edited by Penelope Hetherington, 13-27. Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 1988.

Ginn, Geoffrey A.C. “Holy Ground and Mortal Promises: The Campaigns for the Mothers’ Memorial, Toowoomba.” Journal of Australian Studies 34, no. 3 (September 1, 2010): 331–46.

Grimshaw, Patricia. “Bessie Harrison Lee and the Fight for Voluntary Motherhood.” In Double Time: Women in Victoria, 150 Years, edited by Marilyn Lake and Farley Kelly, 139-47. Ringwood: Penguin Books, 1985.

Grimshaw, Patricia. “Women and the Family in Australian History.” In Women, Class and History: Feminist Perspectives on Australia 1788-1978, edited by Elizabeth Windschuttle, 37-52. Melbourne: Fontana Books, 1980.

Haebich, Anna. “Murdering Stepmothers: The Trial and Execution of Martha Rendell.” Journal of Australian Studies 22, no. 59 (January 1, 1998): 66–81.

Harman, Kristyn. “‘Making Shift’: Mary Ann Hodgkinson and Hybrid Domesticity in Early Colonial New Zealand.” New Zealand Journal of History 48, no. 1 (2014): 30-50.

Hetherington, Penelope. The Marriage Knot: Marriage & Divorce in Colonial Western Australia, 1829-1900.  Perth: UWA Publishing, 2013.

Hill, Richard. “The Call to Order: Families, Responsibility and Juvenile Crime Control.” Journal of Australian Studies 22, no. 59 (January 1, 1998): 101–14.

Hogan, Ashley. ““I Never Noticed She Was Dirty”: Fatherhood and the Death of Charlotte Duffy in Late-Nineteenth-Century Victoria.” Journal of Family History 24, no. 3 (1999): 305-16.

Holmes, Katie. “‘Spinsters Indispensable’: Feminists, Single Women and the Critique of Marriage, 1890–1920.” Australian Historical Studies 29, no. 110 (April 1, 1998): 68–90.

Holmes, Katie. “Marking Time: Australian Women’s Diaries of 1920s & 1930s.” Controlling Time and Shaping the Self: Developments in Auto­biographical Writing since the Sixteenth Century, edited by Arianne Baggerman, Rudulf Dekker & Michael Mascuch. Brill Academic Publishers 2011.

Holmes, Katie. “Relating Women: Australian Women Diarists and Their Relationships, 1920 and 1930s.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 7 (1991): 86-99.

Holmes, Katie. Spaces in Her Day: Australian Women’s Diaries of the 1920s & 1930s, St Leonards, Allen & Unwin, 1995.

Horan, Annabel Cooper; Marian. “Poverty in the New World Dream: Families and Gender in Southern Dunedin, New Zealand, 1890-1920.” Journal of Family History 29, no. 2 (2004): 107-34.

Howe, Renate, and Shurlee Swain. “Saving the Child and Punishing the Mother: Single Mothers and the State 1912–1942.” Journal of Australian Studies 17, no. 37 (June 1, 1993): 31–46.

Hume, Anna Kate. Katie Hume on the Darling Downs: A Colonial Marriage: Letters of a Colonial Lady, 1866-1871. Nancy Bonnin ed.  Darling Heights: Darling Downs Institute Press, 1985.

Jaggs, Donella. Neglected and Criminal: Foundations of Child Welfare Legislation in Victoria.  Melbourne: Philip Institute of Technology Centre for Youth and Community Studies, 1986.

Jalland, Pat. “A Private and Secular Grief: Katharine Susannah Prichard Confronts Death and Bereavement.” History Australia 2, no. 2 (2005): 42-1-42-15.

James, Kerreen Reiger and Margaret. “Hatches, Matches and Despatches.” In Constructing a Culture: A People’s History of Australia since 1788, edited by Verity Burgmann and Jenny Lee, 1-17. Fitzroy: Penguin Books, 1988.

Jordens, Ann‐Mari. “Migrant Supporting Mothers and the State 1948–54.” Journal of Australian Studies 17, no. 37 (June 1, 1993): 47–57.

Kaladelfos, Amanda. ‘The Dark Side of the Family: Paternal Child Homicide in Australia’. Journal of Australian Studies 37, no. 3 (2013): 333-348.

Kaladelfos, Amanda. “The Dark Side of the Family: Paternal Child Homicide in Australia.” Journal of Australian Studies 37, no. 3 (September 1, 2013): 333–48.

Kevin, Catherine and Karen Agutter. “The ‘unwanteds’ and ‘non-compliants’: ‘unsupported mothers’ as ‘failures’ and agents in Australia’s migrant Holding Centres.” The History of the Family 22, no. 4 (2017): 554-574.

Khatun, Samia. “The Book of Marriage: Histories of Muslim Women in Twentieth-Century Australia.” Gender and History 29, no. 1 (April 2017): 8-30.

Kociumbas, Jan. Australian Childhood: A History.  St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1997.

Konishi, Shino. “The Four Fathers of Australia: Baz Luhrmann’s Depiction of Aboriginal History and Paternity in the Northern Territory.” History Australia 8, no. 1 (2011): 23-41.

Krieken, Robert van. Children and the State: Social Control and the Formation of Australian Child Welfare.  North Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1992.

Kunek, Srebrenka. “Brides, Wives, and Single Women: Gender and Immigration.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 8 (1993): 82-113.

Lake, Marilyn. “Helpmeet, Slave, Housewife: Women in Rural Families 1870-1930.” In Families in Colonial Australia, edited by Chris McConville and Ellen McEwen Patricia Grimshaw, 173-85. Sydney, London and Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1985.

Lake, Marilyn. “Historical Homes.” In Packaging the Past?: Public Histories, edited by John Rickard and Peter Spearritt, 46-54. Melbourne Melbourne University Press, 1991.

Larson, Ann. Growing up in Melbourne: Family Life in the Late Nineteenth Century.  Canberra: Demography Program, Australian National University, 1994.

Lee, Janet. “Marriage ‘among the Murkans’: Mile’s Franklin’s Marriage Problem Stories.” Australian Feminist Studies 26, no. 70 (2011): 469-83.

Lovejoy, Frances. “The Drunken Patriarch and His Family: A History of the Australian Feminist Response to Alcohol.” In Australian Welfare – Historical Sociology, edited by Richard Kennedy. Melbourne: Macmillan, 1989.

Martin, Susan. “On our selection: class, gender and the domestic garden in nineteenth-century Australia.” Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes 21, no.1 (2001): 27-32.

Martin, Susan. “Public and private space in 1890s Australian women’s gardens.” An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Past Place and Space, edited by B. Szczygiel, J. Carubia and L. Dolwer, 58-67. Philadelphia: Centre for Studies in Landscape History at the Pennsylvania State University, 2000.

Martin, Susan. “The gender of gardens: the space of the garden in nineteenth century Australia.” Imagining Australian Space, edited by R. Barcan and I. Buchanan, 115-126. Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1999.

Mason, Robert. “Remembering the Family Home: Emotions, Belonging, and Migrant Men in Multicultural Australia.” Journal of Australian Studies 37, no. 3 (2013): 378-89.

Mason, Robert. “Remembering the Family Home: Emotions, Belonging, and Migrant Men in Multicultural Australia.” Journal of Australian Studies 37, no. 3 (September 1, 2013): 378–89.

McConnell, Ruth, and Steve Mullins. “‘We Had Both Been Drinking since Christmas,’ – Battered Wives and Dead Abusive Husbands in Early Colonial Rockhampton.” Journal of Australian Colonial History 5 (2004): 100-19.

McHugh, Siobhan. “Not in Front of the Altar: Mixed Marriages and Sectarian Tensions between Catholics and Protestants in Pre-Multicultural Australia.” History Australia 6, no. 2 (2009): 42.1-42.22.

McPherson, Bernice. “The verandah as a feminine site in the Australian memory.” Strange Women, Essays in Art and Gender, edited by J. Hoorn, 67-80. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1994.

Michaels, Wendy. “The Final Factor: What Political Action Failed to Do.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 19 (2013): 18-31.

Murphy, John. “Shaping the Cold War Family: Politics, Domesticity and Policy Interventions in the 1950s.” Australian Historical Studies 26, no. 105 (1995): 544-67.

Musgrove, Nell. “Abuse of foster children in nineteenth-century Australia: Why did it happen then, and why does it matter now?” History of Education 45, no. 4 (2016): 460-476.

Musgrove, Nell. “Private Homes, Public Scrutiny: Surveillance of ‘the Family’ in Post-War Melbourne, 1945–1965.” History Australia 1, no. 1 (2003): 8-14.

Nelson, Elizabeth. “Civilian Men and Domestic Violence in the Aftermath of the First World War.” Journal of Australian Studies 27, no. 76 (2003): 97-108.

Pascoe, Carla. “Home Is Where Mother Is: Ideals and Realities in Australian Family Houses of the 1950s.” Journal of Australian Studies 41, no. 2 (April 3, 2017): 184–206.

Pawsey, Margaret M. “Annie Wilkins: Life on the Margins in Nineteenth-Century Collingwood.” Victorian Historical Journal 66, no. 1 (1995): 3-19.

Pennay, Bruce. “Remembering Benalla migrant camp.” The History of the Family 22, no. 4 (2017): 575-596.

Pfeil, Helen. “‘The Last Piece of Furniture Procured’: Some Mistresses’ Perspectives on the Mistress-Servant Relationship, 1870-1900.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 10 (2001): 92-107.

Quartly, Marian, and Shurlee Swain. “The Market in Children: Analysing the Language of Adoption in Australia.” History Australia 9, no. 2 (2012): 69-89.

Quiggin, Pat. No Rising Generation: Women & Fertility in Late Nineteenth Century Australia.  Canberra: Dept. of Demography Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 1988.

Quirk, Christin. “The Business of Adoption: Past Practices at Melbourne’s Royal Women’s Hospital.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 19 (2013): 46-59.

Rehak, Pamela. “Women, Housing, and Home Ownership in the 1950s and 1960s.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 5 (1988): 165-76.

Reiger, Kerreen M. The Disenchantment of the Home: Modernizing the Australian Family 1880-1940.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Reiger, Kerreen. Our Bodies, Our Babies: the Forgotten Women’s Movement, Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1997

Russell, Penny. “Mrs. Cole’s Servants: A Study in Domestic Politics.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 4 (1988): 41-57.

Russell, Penny. “The Relationship between Family Life and Class Formation in Nineteenth-Century Melbourne.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 5 (1988): 113-26.

Saunders, Kay. “The Study of Domestic Violence in Colonial Queensland: Sources and Problems.” Historical Studies 21, no. 82 (1984): 68-84.

Sellwood, Claire. “‘Morbidly-Inclined Young Women’: The Divorce Court as Feminised Entertainment in Early Twentieth-Century Sydney.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 22 (2016): 8-20.

Silverstein, Jordana. “‘I am responsible’: Histories of the Intersection of the Guardianship of Unaccompanied Child Refugees and the Australian Border.” Cultural Studies Review 22, no. 2 (September 2016): 65-89.

Silverstein, Jordana. “‘If our grandchildren are Jewish’: Heteronormativity, Holocaust postmemory and the reproduction of Melbourne Jewish families.” History Australia 10, no. 1 (April 2013): 167-186.

Silverstein, Jordana. “‘The beneficent and legal godfather’: a history of the guardianship of unaccompanied immigrant and refugee children in Australia, 1946-1975.” The History of the Family 22, no. 4 (2017): 446-465.

Simic, Zora. “Bachelors of Misery and Proxy Brides: Marriage, Migration and Assimilation, 1947–1973.” History Australia 11, no. 1 (2014): 149-74.

Smaal, Yorick. “Keeping It in the Family: Prosecuting Incest in Colonial Queensland.” Journal of Australian Studies 37, no. 3 (September 1, 2013): 316–32.

Smart, Judith. “A Mission to the Home: The Housewives Association, the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and Protestant Christianity, 1920–1940.” Australian Feminist Studies 13, no. 28 (October 1, 1998): 215–34.

Spearritt, Katie. “The Sexual Economics of Colonial Marriage.” In On the Edge: Women’s Experiences of Queensland, edited by Gail Reekie, 66-79. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1994.

Stroja, Jessica. “Settlement of refugee women and children following the Second World War: challenges to the family.” The History of the Family 22, no. 4 (2017): 510-530.

Swain, Shurlee, and Renate Howe. Single Mothers and Their Children: Disposal, Punishment and Survival in Australia.  Cambridge; Oakleigh: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Swain, Shurlee. “‘I Am Directed to Remind You of Your Duty to Your Family: Public Surveillance of Mothering in Victoria, Australia, 1920–40.” Women’s History Review 8, no. 2 (1999): 247-59.

Swain, Shurlee. “Adoption, Secrecy and the Spectre of the True Mother in Twentieth-Century Australia.” Australian Feminist Studies 26, no. 68 (June 1, 2011): 193–205.

Swain, Shurlee. “Confronting cruelty: Writing a history of the detection and treatment of child abuse.” Victorian Historical Journal 71, no. 1 (2000): 7-18.

Swain, Shurlee. “Dear Problem Page, ‘I’m Single and Pregnant and…’.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 7 (1991): 100-12.

Teo, Hsu-Ming. “Love Writes: Gender and Romantic Love in Australian Love Letters, 1860–1960.” Australian Feminist Studies 20, no. 48 (November 1, 2005): 343–61.

Theobald, Jacqui. “Feminist Oral History and the Victorian Domestic Violence Services Movement.” Australian Feminist Studies 28, no. 78 (December 1, 2013): 364–74.

Thompson, Susannah. “‘I’d Just Like to Die with a Bit of Peace’: The Role of Oral History in Reinterpreting Repressed Memories of Stillbirth and Neonatal Death in Australia’s Past.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 16 (2007): 120-31.

Thomson, Alistair. “I’m Not a Good Mother: Gender Expectations and Tensions in a Migrant Woman’s Life Story.” (eds), Looking Out: Australian Lives in the World, edited by Desley Deacon Penny Russell and Angela Woollacott, 149-164. Canberra: Australian National University e-Press, 2008.

Twomey, Christina. “‘Without Natural Protectors’: Responses to Wife Desertion in Gold-Rush Victoria.” Australian Historical Studies 28, no. 108 (1997): 22-46.

Twomey, Christina. “Courting Men: Mothers, Magistrates and Welfare in the Australian Colonies.” Women’s History Review 8, no. 2 (1999): 231-46.

Twomey, Christina. “Identifying with a ‘Serious Social Evil’: Wife-Desertion in Mid-Nineteenth Century Victoria.” In Forging Identities: Bodies, Gender and Feminist History, edited by Jan Coulthart and Jane Long Helen Brash, 69-87. Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 1997.

Twomey, Christina. Deserted and Destitute: Motherhood, Wife Desertion and Colonial Welfare. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Press, 2002.

Ziino, Bart. “Eligible Men: Men, Families and Masculine Duty in Great War Australia.” History Australia 14, no. 2 (2017): 202-17.