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Engendering Scientific Pursuits: Australian Women And Science, 1880-1960, Jane L. Carey
Engendering Scientific Pursuits: Australian Women And Science, 1880-1960, Jane L. Carey
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Science is generally perceived as one of the most strongly gendered spheres within modern society. The perceived 'masculine' construction of scientific practice has been the focus of numerous overseas studies of women's historic absence from science. However, the experiences of Australian women scientists, in many ways, stand in stark contrast to this construction. Existing historical accounts of Australian science reveal little about women's participation in the field. It is perhaps surprising to find that, during the first half of this century, women were in fact studying science in quite high numbers. Indeed, few seem to have felt they were doing …
The Voices In The Making And Unmaking Of History: Arnold Bennett, Marie Corelli, And Single Women In Late Victorian England, Sharon Crozier
The Voices In The Making And Unmaking Of History: Arnold Bennett, Marie Corelli, And Single Women In Late Victorian England, Sharon Crozier
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Historians are continually constructing and reconstructing, making and remaking history. Present-day preoccupations offer the historian new questions to ask and new directions to take and such an opening up of relatively unexplored areas of study has also led to the search for, and finding of, new sources to analyse. This is especially so in the branches of social history referred to as 'the history of mentalities' and 'cultural history'.
Cultivating Empire: The Gardens Women Write, Dorothy L. Jones
Cultivating Empire: The Gardens Women Write, Dorothy L. Jones
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Western culture invests gardens with powerful, if ambivalent symbolism. They invite us to commune with nature while delighting in how human hands have guided and controlled it. The Old Testament locates the origin of human life in a garden which simultaneously represents paradise and paradise lost. Paradise, whether on earth or in heaven, is, in Christian tradition, frequently represented as a walled garden with hardship and evil fenced out. But this is a double-sided image invoking both sexual wantonness and chastity, for gardens are also associated with the beauty and desirability of the female body. Because Eve's seductiveness was held …
Edgy Laughter: Women And Australian Humour, Dorothy Jones
Edgy Laughter: Women And Australian Humour, Dorothy Jones
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Offers a look on how Australian humor describes the status of women in several literary works. Women writers' treatment of their marginalization in society; Creation of a world where gender power relations are reversed; Description of male myths of nationhood; Satirical presentation of gender bias..