Women, gender and history

Lake, Marilyn

doi:10.1080/08164649.1988.9961604

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“…We should expect the ensuing battle for possession to be fierce'. 49 Historians are inescapably the product of their time and place. Since 1994, the debates in historical discourse have taken different directions, in response to wider and broader historical events.…”

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Writing Gender into History and History in Gender: Creating A Nation and Australian Historiography

Damousi

1999

Gender & History

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The creation of nations has traditionally been seen as men's business', write the authors of Creating A Nation. 'We wish to challenge this view of history', they state boldly, 'by asserting the agency and creativity of women in the process of national generation'. 1 By declaring this aim of interrogating the frameworks within which national history has been understood and women's role within it, Patricia Grimshaw, Marilyn Lake, Ann McGrath and Marian Quartly were breaking new ground in writing Australian national history.While previous works had questioned the absence of women in the national landscape, this project sought to rewrite the enterprise of national history itself: This book starts from the premise that gender is integral to the processes that comprise the history of Australia -that political and economic as well as social and cultural history are constituted in gendered terms … It explores the appropriation of women's procreative powers by men in their assertion that they gave birth to the nation … It also considers the difficulty encountered by women who attempted to carve a place for non-party women's interests in a political system organised around the conflict between capital and labour, between employers and workers. 2 This approach signified an important departure point from national histories written before or since, because it not only diverged from existing accounts of adding 'women to Australian history', but, more boldly, unsettled received notions of how national histories could be imagined. Women's agency is situated at the centre of a range of contexts and situations. The process of nation building is examined, whether 'giving birth to babies, or in refusing to do so, in sustaining families and multi-cultural communities, creating wealth, shaping a maternalist welfare state or in inscribing the meanings of our experience in culture '. 3

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Writing Gender into History and History in Gender: Creating A Nation and Australian Historiography

Damousi

1999

Gender & History

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“…11 Adding such individuals to the canon not only allows us to deepen our understanding of women, but highlights the crucial role of gender relations and gendered conflict in configuring the past. 12 Scholars of past entrepreneurial women acknowledge that it is rare to see women of the nineteenth century attributed with financial ambition or looking outside of the domestic context for fulfilment, even though it is clear that some did. 13 The Kirchner case allows insight into the changing balance of power between the sexes over the last two decades of the nineteenth century, revealing how changing perceptions of gender roles in the wider society affected an unremarkable marital partnership.…”

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‘Going her Own Road’: The Tortured Path to Economic Independence in Late Colonial New South Wales

Lorrison

2022

Journal of Family History

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Feminist historians have long recognised the symbiotic relationship between personal autonomy and a woman's capacity to earn her own living. This paper draws on legal and press documentation to examine how one woman navigated the difficult path of wage-earning during the 1890s. It argues that Catherine Kirchner saw herself as an autonomous economic entity and conducted herself with equal autonomy within her marriage and an extra-marital love affair. The paper concludes that despite the rhetoric of increasing emancipation and opportunity for women in 1890s New South Wales, the path to economic autonomy remained a difficult one to traverse.

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Feminism and Male Scholarship: The Treatment of Women and Gender in Social Policy Texts

Edwards¹

1992

Aust J Social Issues

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This paper reports the results of a study of sixty selected British and Australian academic texts on social policy and the welfare state. The purpose of the study was to investigate changes over the last fifteen years in the ways in which the position of women and gender‐related issues are dealt with by feminist and non‐feminist writers in the social policy field. Differences in the levels of feminist awareness in the various texts are found to be associated with the sex of the author, the type of book, the date of publication, the country of publication, and the socio‐political and intellectual context in which the various texts were produced.

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Women, gender and history

Cited by 10 publications

References 5 publications

Writing Gender into History and History in Gender: Creating A Nation and Australian Historiography

Writing Gender into History and History in Gender: Creating A Nation and Australian Historiography

‘Going her Own Road’: The Tortured Path to Economic Independence in Late Colonial New South Wales

Feminism and Male Scholarship: The Treatment of Women and Gender in Social Policy Texts

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