Feminist history as national history: Writing the political history of women

Australian Historical Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 106, 1996, Pages 154-169

  Lake, Marilyn ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0346340923     PISSN: 1031461X     EISSN: 19405049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10314619608596005     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Linda K. Kerber, Alice Kesler-Harris, Kathryn Kish Sklar (eds), US History as Women's History: New Feminist Essays, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1995, p. 14
2. See, for example, Mary Mumane, "Why Australian Women Should Cringe', Refractory Girl, no. 11, June 1976, pp. 36-7
3. Beverley Kingston, My Wife, My Daughter, and Poor Mary Ann, Nelson, Melbourne, 1975, p. 16
4. Miriam Dixson, The Real Matilda, Penguin, Melbourne, 1975, p. 11
5. Kay Daniels, Mary Murnane and Anne Picot (eds), Women in Australia: An Annotated Guide to Records, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1977, p. xiii
6. Patricia Grimshaw, Marilyn Lake, Ann McGrath and Marian Quartly, Creating a Nation, McPhee Gribble, Melbourne, 1994
7. Meaghan Morris, 'Creating a Mainstream', Meanjin, no. 2, 1994, p. 372
8. Feminist political history has tended to focus on suffragists and women in left-wing parties, the best example of the latter being Joy Damousi, Women Come Rally, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1994. On conservative women's groups, see especially Judith Smart 'Eva Hughes: Militant Conservative', in Marilyn Lake and Farley Kelly (eds), Double Time: Women in Victoria-150 Years, Penguin, Melbourne, 1985. See also footnote 16
9. Quoted in Seth Koven and Sonya Michel (eds), Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States, Routledge, New York, p. 3
10. See also Jill Roe, 'Chivalry and Social Policy in the Antipodes', Historical Studies, vol. 22. no. 88, April 1987, pp. 402-5
11. Jill Roe, 'The End is Where We Start From: Women and Welfare since 1901', and Bettina Cass, 'Redistribution to Children and to the Mother: A History of Child Endowment and Family Allowances', in Cora V. Baldock and Bettina Cass (eds), Women, Social Welfare and the State, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1983
12. Marilyn Lake, 'Mission Impossible: How Men Gave Birth to the Australian Nation - Nationalism, Gender and Other Seminal Acts', Gender and History, vol. 4, no. 3, Autumn 1992, pp. 305-22
13. Marilyn Lake, 'A Revolution in the Family: The Challenge and Contradictions of Maternal Citizenship', in Koven and Michel (eds), op. cit., pp. 378-95
14. and Renate Howe and Shurlee Swain, 'Saving the Child and Punishing the Mother: Single Mothers and the State 1912-1942', in Renate Howe (ed.), Women and the State, special issue of Journal of Australian Studies, La Trobe University Press, Melbourne, 1993, pp. 31-46
15. See also Ann McGrath, ' "Beneath the Skin": Australian Citizenship, Rights and Aboriginal Women', in Howe (ed.), op. cit., pp. 99-114
16. Jan Mercer (ed.), The Other Half: Women in Australian Society, Penguin, Melbourne, 1977, p. 369
17. Marian Sawer and Marian Sims, A Woman's Place: Women and Politics in Australia (1984), Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1993, p. 1
18. Quoted in Anne Summers, Damned Whores and God's Police: The Colonization of Women in Australia (1975), Penguin, Melbourne, 1994, p. 394
19. The same dismissal can be found in Carmen Lawrence, 'Personal Comment', Australian Feminist Studies, no. 19, Autumn 1994, pp. 9-15
20. Susan Magarey, 'Why Didn't They Want to be Members of Parliament? Suffragists in South Australia', in Caroline Daley and Melanie Nolan (eds), Suffrage and Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives, Auckland University Press/Pluto, Auckland, 1994, pp. 81-2
21. Judith Smart, ' "For the Good that We Can Do": Cecilia Downing and Feminist Christian Citizenship', Australian Feminist Studies, no. 19, Autumn 1994, p. 40
22. Jill Vickers, 'Feminist Approaches to Women in Politics', in Linda Kealey and Joan Sangster (eds), Beyond the Vote: Canadian Women and Politics, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1989, p. 21
23. Kay Daniels and Mary Murnane (eds), Uphill all the Way: A Documentary History of Women in Australia (reprinted as Australia's Women, 1992), University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1980, p. 261
24. Roe, 'Chivalry and Social Policy', p. 405
25. Smart, ' "For the Good that We Can Do"', p. 39
26. Paula Baker, 'The Domestication of Politics: Women and American Political Society', American Historical Review, no. 89, June 1984, pp. 622, 647
27. see also Anne Firor Scott, Natural Allies: Women's Associations in American History, University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 1992
28. Bessie Rischbieth, March of Australian Women, Paterson Brokenshaw, Perth, 1964. p. 12
29. On Australian women's understandings of citizenship, see Lake, 'A Revolution in the Family'
30. Marilyn Lake, 'Personality, Individuality, Nationality: Feminist Conceptions of Citizenship', Australian Feminist Studies, no. 19, Autumn 1994, pp. 25-38
31. Rose Scott, Why Women Want the Vote. Rose Scott papers, ML MS 38/38, Mitchell Library, Sydney
32. Louisa Lawson, 'Women Members', Dawn, June 1890
33. Scott, Why Women Want the Vote; see the revival of these views some seventy years later in Carol Gilligan's, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1983
34. Rose Scott, Notes on a Speech on Womanhood Suffrage, March 1892. Rose Scott papers, ML MS 38/38, Mitchell Library, Sydney
35. See Marilyn Lake, The Republic, the Federation and the Intrusion of the Political", in Jeanette Hoorn and David Goodman (eds), Vox Republicae: Feminism and the Republic, special issue of Journal of Australian Studies, no. 47, La Trobe University Press, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 5-16
36. On Scott's 'salon', see Allen, op. cit., pp. 76-81
37. Suzanne M. Marilley, 'Frances Willard and the Feminism of Fear', Feminist Studies, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring 1993, pp. 123-46
38. Anthea Hyslop, 'Temperate Feminists: Marie Kirk and the WCTU', and Patricia Grimshaw, 'Bessìe Harrison-Lee', in Lake and Kelly (eds), op. cit
39. Helen Irving, 'Who Are Our Founding Mothers? The Role of Women in Australian Federation', in Department of the Senate, Constitutions, Rights and Democracy Past, Present and Future: Papers on Parliament, no. 25, Parliament House, Canberra, 1985
40. Lake, 'The Republic, the Federation'
41. See, for example, on equal pay, Edna Ryan and Anne Conlon, Gentle Invaders: Australian Women at Work (1975), Penguin, Melbourne, 1989
42. See Marilyn Lake, 'The Independence of Women and the Brotherhood of Man', Labour History. no. 63, December 1992, pp. 1-24
43. Lake, 'Personality, Individuality'
44. For discussion of the effects of privatisation and enterprise bargaining on women, see Margaret Thornton (ed.), Public and Private: Feminist Debates, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1995
45. Marian Sawer, 'Reclaiming Social Liberalism: The Women's Movement and the State', in Howe (ed.), op. cit., pp. 1-21
46. and Anne Edwards and Susan Magarey (eds), Women in a Restructuring Australia: Work and Welfare, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1995