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Women

University of Wollongong

2018

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Belonging In Time: Australian Women Playwrights In A Changing Landscape', Janys Hayes Jan 2018

Belonging In Time: Australian Women Playwrights In A Changing Landscape', Janys Hayes

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Shame: A Transnational History Of Women Policing Women, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa Jan 2018

Shame: A Transnational History Of Women Policing Women, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa

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From the 1880s to the 1910s, novelist Marie Corelli reigned as ‘Queen of the Bestsellers’, far outselling any fellow authors of her day. As I read through her works to complete my Ph.D. on bestselling fiction and a history of women’s emotions, I could not help but be disturbed by the glaring anti-feminist sentiment infusing her writing. Corelli was certainly no supporter of votes for women, but neither, it was apparent, was she a proponent of advances in women’s education and employment.


Can Women Share The Honour When Honour Has Historically Kept Women Away From Frontline Combat?, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa Jan 2018

Can Women Share The Honour When Honour Has Historically Kept Women Away From Frontline Combat?, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

On Anzac Day, a day when many of my colleagues will be writing about the crucial issue of the place of indigenous Australians in commemorations of war, I will reflect on another issue, the role of gender in war. In particular, I will look at how emotional regimes, specifically honour codes, have been constructed to keep women away from frontline combat.