Journal of Australian Studies articles from March 1997

Journal of Australian Studies archives from March 1997

The Pauline Hanson one person party.(Designing Women)(Editorial)
March 1, 1997... Pauline Hanson posed for photographs in early 1997 with the Australian flag carefully draped over her frame. She was dressed in a setting which might signify an antipodean Boadicea, a warrior queen of the white tribes of the antipodes. As a...

Femininity that calmed the crowds: Lady Carrington at the Queen's jubilee celebrations, Sydney, 1887.(Designing Women)
March 1, 1997... On Friday 3 June 1887, the mayor of Sydney, Mr Alban J. Riley, convened a public meeting mayor of Sydney, Mr Alban J. Riley, convened a public mayor of Sydney, Mr Alban J. Riley, convened a public at the town hall to consider how the city...

The politics of antipodean dress: consumer interests in nineteenth century Victoria.(Designing Women)
March 1, 1997... The historiography of dress has not received serious attention until recently. Although pioneering work has been done by historians such as Spufford, Weatherill, Lemire, Benson, Reekie and Maynard,(1) analysis of dress in a historic and social...

The nun in the nightgown: the public airing of private prejudice and the Sister Ligouri scandal, 1920-21.(Designing Women)
March 1, 1997... The Sydney morning Herald of 14 Aug 1920 announced that Melbourne's archbishop Dr Mannix intended to defy the British government's ban on his visiting Ireland. At the time, Ireland was in a state of guerilla warfare and the Lloyd George...

Sequins under the big top: women in the Australian circus.(Designing Women)
March 1, 1997... The present generation has the sawdust in its blood, but it is blended with gum leaves. The girls are not only pretty, but graceful, most daring and ambitious, and in this their first 'metropolitan' session they have...

The white blouse revolution: heroic and anti-heroic interpretations of the feminisation of work.(Designing Women)
March 1, 1997... There is a growing debate in the historiography between what could be described as heroic and anti-heroic interpretations of the feminisation of work. At issue is whether a paid labour paradise was won or lost for women at the turn of the...

Starch on the collar and sweat on the brow: self sacrifice and the status of work for nurses.(Designing Women)
March 1, 1997... From the 1890s, labor politics and language offered an alternative meaning of `work' for the nurse. This alternative was neither specific nor restrict to working-class women. Nonetheless, it was one constructed around an idea of work more...

Not for them battle fatigues: the Australian women's land army in the second world war.(Designing Women)
March 1, 1997... Commenting wryly upon the initial reluctance to mobilise women into the war effort, official historian of the homefront Paul Hasluck stated: The slowness to make better use of women in the war effort seems to have been due ...

Blue tunics and batons: women and politics in the Queensland police, 1970-1987.(Designing Women)
March 1, 1997... During the 1970s and 1980s, policewomen in Queensland experienced dramatic changes of fortune under two different commissioners. Under Commissioner Whitrod (1970-76), the percentage of policewomen went from below the Australian national...

Tailoring rural women in Australia, Canada and New Zealand: the touch of silk.(Designing Women)
March 1, 1997... Betty Roland's play, The Touch of Silk, first performed in 1928, is set in Northern Victoria. An Australian grazier, serving in Europe in the first world war, has married Jeanne, a Parisienne. Act 2 takes place in a two-roomed, wooden house on...

White women in the field: feminism, cultural relativism and Aboriginal rights, 1920-1937.(Designing Women)
March 1, 1997... During the inter-war years, numerous anglo-Australian activist women argued that Aboriginal policy and administration had to recognise the cultural and social experiences of Aboriginal people living under the constraints of white settlement...

Test tubes and white jackets: the careers of two Australian women scientists.(Designing Women)
March 1, 1997... Science has been largely the domain of men. This is particularly true prior to the 1970s and the women's movement, which in various ways sought the acceptance and recognition of women in professional endeavours as well as in political...

A society of country women and the functions of literary property.(Designing Women)
March 1, 1997... In a small Toowoomba park perched on the edge of the escarpment which is the Great Dividing Range there stands an impressive monument to the local poet George Essex Evans. The monument consists of two truncated columns of unequal length united...

'Lola Montez' and high culture: the Elizabethan Theatre Trust in post-war Australia.(Designing Women)
March 1, 1997... In Europe and the United States, during the late nineteenth century, a rich and shared public culture was replaced by a series of cultures: high and low, popular, respectable and middle class. High culture became entrenched through two forms:...

The Turner thesis and discipline wars. (response to article by Graeme Turner in number 51 of this journal)
March 1, 1997... In the most recent issue of the Journal of Australian Studies, Graeme Turner's article on contested academic territory in Australia between cultural studies and Australian studies, is both intriguing and perplexing to a European: many of the...

Survival of the fittest? (response to article by Francis, 'Social Darwinism and the construction of institutionalized racism in Australia')
March 1, 1997... Francis' critique, `Social Darwinism and the Construction of Institutionalized racism in Australia', attacks the race theory of recent Australian historians with all the enthusiasm of a kid knocking down a sandcastle. Francis accuses these...

Cultural Liberalism in Australia: a study in intellectual and cultural history.
March 1, 1997... This was not the sort of book to take to the beach over the Christmas holidays. It is a densely written exercise in intellectual history, packed with information about the ideas of numerous Australian thinkers, most of whom are little...

Fair Comment: The Life of Pat Jarrett 1911-1990.
March 1, 1997... Audrey Tate's short biography reveals that Pat Jarrett led an interesting, unconventional life. She was a champion sportswoman and later a pioneering sports journalist, covering (among other things) the Australian women's cricket team's tour...

Artful Histories: Modern Australian Autobiography.
March 1, 1997... This is a conservative study of modern Australian autobiographies which is frustratingly limited in its project. A book like this might have been laden with possibility, dealing as it does with such a democratised, accessible literary genre....

Autographs. Contemporary Australian Autobiography.
March 1, 1997... Both in this century and the previous one Australians have traditionally and extensively cultivated the habit of autobiography. The experience of emigration, of settling and discovery of a new country no doubt explains the prolific outpourings...

Pioneer Players: The Lives of Louis and Hilda Esson.
March 1, 1997... Any study of the life of Louis Esson (1878-1943) cannot help but be influenced by the breadth of mythology surrounding the figure who has come to be known as the father of Australian drama. Peter Fitzpatrick's biography attempts in some ways...

Colin Colahan: A Portrait.
March 1, 1997... The Australian artist Colin Colahan died aged 90 at his home on the Italian Riviera near Bordighera in 1987. He had left Australia 52 years earlier in 1935 and never returned. Although he continued to retain strong connections with the country...