The Sydney Feminist History Group brings together historians, researchers and friends of feminist history, broadly defined.
Sydney Feminist History Group
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2023 Program
Seminars are held usually on the first Thursday of every month at UTS Building 2, (Law Building), level 17 from 5.30 to 7.15 pm. Please bring a gold coin for refreshments. Dinner at local restaurant afterwards.
Thursday March 2
Special Event: An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family
Alison Bashford in conversation with Robyn Williams
Special location and time: Metcalf Auditorium, State Library of NSW, 6pm-7.15pm
Reserve your free ticket here.
Thursday April 6
Cruelty, Desertion and the Family: Converging histories of marriage and domestic violence
Ann Curthoys, Zora Simic, Catherine Kevin
Thursday May 4
Personal Politics: Sexuality, gender and the remaking of citizenship in Australia
Michelle Arrow, Leigh Boucher, Barbara Baird, Robert Reynolds
Thursday June 1
Writing Feminist Histories of Aboriginal Men
Katherine Biber, ‘The Governor Brothers: Writing an outlaw history from the academy’
Naomi Parry, 'Musquito's Biography: Why does a white feminist want to write about a black man?'
July: No Seminar
Thursday August 3
Amahs, Ayahs and Au Pairs (Chair: Laurie Berg)
Claire Lowrie, ‘An Amah in Paris: The transcolonial journeys of Chinese nursemaids’
Victoria Haskins, ‘An Ayah in New York: Representing the British empire in American cultural history’
Angela Kintominas ‘A Hidden Backstory: Excavating the origins of the law and political economy of au pairing in Australia’.
Thursday September 7
Feminist Oral Histories
Cheryl Ware, ‘Feminism, memory and oral histories: The NZ sex workers project’
Jeannine Baker, ‘Listening to the Voices of Women in Early Australian TV Production’
Thursday October 5
Gendered Professions
Hannah Forsyth, ‘Feminising the Professions, Masculinising Management: How a gendered history of white-collar work explains right-wing scepticism of expertise
Claire Wright, ‘Feminised Professions, Symbolic Violence, and Locking in Australia’s Corporate Woman’
Thursday November 2
Emotions, Law and History
Alecia Simmonds, ‘Stories of Love from the Archives of Law ‘
Additional speaker TBA