Lilith: A Feminist History Journal最新文献

{"title":"The Lavender Menace Comes to Melbourne: Feminism, Lesbianism, Place and Space in the 1970s","authors":"Jacquelyn E. Baker","doi":"10.22459/lfhj.27.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/lfhj.27.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":376853,"journal":{"name":"Lilith: A Feminist History Journal","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128889254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Maternity Misplaced: The Infanticidal Mother Archetype in Fin-de-Siècle Australia and France","authors":"Saskia Roberts","doi":"10.22459/lfhj.27.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/lfhj.27.09","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":376853,"journal":{"name":"Lilith: A Feminist History Journal","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115044796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘In Donkey Jacket and Doc Martin Boots’: Women Workers, Uniforms and the Patterning of Exclusion in the Male-Dominated Transport Industry","authors":"E. Robertson, Lee-Ann. Monk","doi":"10.22459/lfhj.27.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/lfhj.27.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":376853,"journal":{"name":"Lilith: A Feminist History Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133738819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Women, Popular Science and Recreation: The First 25 Years of the South Australian Field Naturalists","authors":"Sharon G. Clarke","doi":"10.22459/lfhj.27.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/lfhj.27.03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":376853,"journal":{"name":"Lilith: A Feminist History Journal","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121678516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Wright By Her Own Hand’: Recipe Exchange and Women’s Kinship Networks in Ascendancy Ireland, 1690–1800","authors":"M. Shanahan","doi":"10.22459/lfhj.27.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/lfhj.27.02","url":null,"abstract":"From the late seventeenth century, women of the elite classes in Ireland began to share culinary and medicinal information with loved ones across the country and, frequently, across the Irish Sea. This article discusses the practice of recipe exchange in Ascendancy Ireland, drawing on domestic archives primarily in the keeping of the National Library of Ireland. It examines the roles and functions of both letters and family volumes, as well as the relationships between these sources. As the British sphere of influence expanded and more and more women crossed the Irish Sea to marry into Ascendancy families, culinary and medicinal information was circulated regularly and rapidly through letter writing. This information, once ‘approved’, often made its way into bound collections, sometimes passed through families as heirloom objects or gifted upon marriage. Like letters, recipe books allowed women to stay connected across distances, but they also provided connections through generations, and their tangible nature enhanced their value considerably. This article argues that the gendered practice of recipe exchange allowed Ascendancy women to bridge geographical and even generational divides, providing active care for one another and continually reaffirming their kinship networks. Whereas previous studies have focused on broader patterns of cultural, gendered and culinary change, this article will focus on the value and function of recipes in the personal and domestic sphere, exploring how recipe circulation helped women to maintain their connections over generations and expanding distances. Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, Number 27 36 From the late seventeenth century, exchanging, sharing and circulating recipes and domestic knowledge became an important way for elite women in Ireland to maintain their connections to family members and friends from whom they were separated by time and ever-increasing geographical distances. Many of these women were the descendants of the ‘New English’ who had arrived in Ireland in the wake of the Tudor conquest, while others came directly from Britain to marry into established families. Recipes—known more accurately as ‘receipts’ until the nineteenth century—allowed them to conjure familiar tastes of home and concoct trusted cures.1 In a context like Ireland, which was distant, foreign and potentially hostile, such lines of communication were crucial. This article examines the two primary ways in which recipes circulated between households in this period: through letter writing and by the gifting of heirloom volumes. Letters helped to bridge growing distances and create a sense of immediate daily support for one another. Once the recipes and remedies had been tried, tested and ‘approved’, they were often committed to bound family collections. Evidence from the National Library of Ireland’s collections shows that women carried their family recipe books with them to new homes and continued to add to them over genera","PeriodicalId":376853,"journal":{"name":"Lilith: A Feminist History Journal","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125529635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unnatural Womanhood: Moral Treatment, Puerperal Insanity and the Female Patients at the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum, 1858–1908","authors":"Alexandra Wallis","doi":"10.22459/lfhj.26.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/lfhj.26.08","url":null,"abstract":"Puerperal insanity, or what might be understood as a form of postnatal depression, was the third most frequent diagnosis among the women of the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum from 1858 to 1908. The emphasis society placed on pregnancy and child-rearing as women’s primary function resulted in anxieties surrounding childbirth. Modern medical professionals are now aware there are several factors involved in postnatal depression. However, nineteenth-century physicians viewed it as a common issue of ‘mental derangement’ in women soon after childbirth, but unlikely to be permanent. To treat this, Fremantle Asylum physicians instituted moral treatment methods, including domestic work as rehabilitation. As this paper demonstrates, this form of rehabilitation reinforced the conventional feminine behaviours essential for functioning wives and mothers in nineteenthand early twentieth-century society. As women suffering puerperal insanity challenged the notions of domesticity and femininity, their experiences allow for an analysis of how moral treatment was implemented in Fremantle. Through the patient records and case books of the Fremantle Asylum, this paper reveals that moral treatment did not cure all patients, leaving some susceptible to readmission and continued mental illness. Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, Number 26 172 Alice Mary Anderson was a 27-year-old Roman Catholic housewife admitted to the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum on 30 December 1901 diagnosed with ‘puerperal melancholia’ caused by childbirth and with ‘general symptoms of puerperal mania’.1 One month before Alice’s admission, she had given birth to a daughter, Kathleen Maud.2 However, her husband, Charles, reported Alice had threatened to poison herself, and the day before admission ‘she attempted to get away to drown herself in the river. She also attempted to take hold of a knife. Later she took her boots off in the street in order that she might walk across broken glass.’3 In the asylum, Medical Superintendent Dr Sydney Hamilton Rowan Montgomery observed Alice was ‘very restless and excited, weeps and bemoans all days, says she is lost forever’.4 Eight days later, on 7 January 1902, Montgomery noted that Alice was ‘still very depressed’ and ‘will not speak or employ herself ’.5 However, towards the end of January, she was ‘rather better, has started to do a little sewing’ but was ‘still depressed’.6 Approximately one month later, on 14 February, Montgomery reported that Alice was ‘improving, is more cheerful and contented’.7 By the end of February, Alice was considered convalescent, and on 22 March 1902, she was ‘discharged recovered’, after three months in the asylum.8 Alice’s depressed responses after childbirth manifested as suicidal actions that resulted in her committal. Puerperal insanity was a nineteenth-century understanding of postnatal depression, although not understood or treated as it is today.9 It was not uncommon for a diagnosis to include both puerperal melancholia and 1 Tha","PeriodicalId":376853,"journal":{"name":"Lilith: A Feminist History Journal","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128019251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Mother Archive: Immersion, Affect and the Maternal in Museum Practice","authors":"Rebecca Clarke","doi":"10.22459/lfhj.26.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/lfhj.26.03","url":null,"abstract":"In a discussion of my digital archive project, ‘The Mother Archive’, I ask: what would a museum program about motherhood look and sound like? Identifying an absence of motherhood and the maternal as curatorial themes in Australian museums, I argue for a need to address maternal experience in museum practice. I then ask: how can digital technologies be used in museum settings to give us greater insight into maternal experiences? I suggest that the immersive technology of virtual reality (VR) could lead us to a deeper understanding of maternal subjectivity by enabling affective encounters. The immersive potential of VR has been used in areas including psychology (for instance trauma recovery) and workplace training. But its capacity to achieve affect in the context of museum environments has not been explored fully in scholarly work. While there is much conceptualising of VR as a tool of embodiment and empathy, there is no known scholarly work on how VR might enable us to engage with maternal subjectivity. My project strives to fill this gap in knowledge by creating a digital archive representing actual experiences of mothering as voiced by mothers. How does a mother make sense of her maternal experiences? The wellknown What to Expect When You’re Expecting, first published in 1984, now in its fifth edition, remains on the New York bestseller list. This book, along with countless websites targeted at expectant mothers, aims to educate women about each stage of their pregnancy. In this sense, there is little room for perspectives on ‘matrescence’, the transformation of first-time Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, Number 26 58 motherhood, outside the parameters of medical language.1 My project, ‘The Mother Archive’ strives to create a digital archive of ‘inobservable worlds’ the actual experiences of matrescence as voiced by mothers.2 ‘The Mother Archive’ is an interdisciplinary PhD project based at Monash University. This project is informed by my curatorial research at Museums Victoria (MV) on their mother-related collection material, and my experiments with digital technologies to create an archive of maternal experiences, based at Monash University’s SensiLab. The aim of this project is to design a digital, immersive archive of motherhood (and maternal experiences) using digital technologies (including, for instance, virtual reality (VR), immersive sound design, and motion capture technology), with the aim of articulating experiences of mothering. The immersive potential of VR has been used in areas including psychology (for instance, trauma recovery) and workplace training. But its capacity to achieve affect in the context of heritage environments has not been explored fully in scholarly work. While there is much conceptualising of VR as a tool of embodiment and empathy, there is no known critical attention to how VR might enable us to engage with maternal subjectivity. My research seeks to fill this gap in knowledge by imagining how VR might ","PeriodicalId":376853,"journal":{"name":"Lilith: A Feminist History Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115051549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Debating Patriarchy","authors":"Julia Adams, Benita Roth, P. Miller","doi":"10.22459/lfhj.26.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/lfhj.26.10","url":null,"abstract":"Patriarchy, particularly as embedded in the Old and New Testaments and Roman legal precepts, has been a powerful organising concept with which social order has been understood, maintained, enforced, contested, adjudicated and dreamt about for over two millennia of Western history. This brief book surveys three influential episodes in this history: seventeenth-century debates about absolutism and democracy, nineteenth-century reconstructions of human prehistory, and the broad mobilisations linked to twentieth-century women’s movements. It then looks at the way feminist scholars have reconsidered and revised some earlier explanations built around patriarchy. The book concludes with an overview of current uses of the concept of patriarchy from fundamentalist Christian activism, over foreign policy analyses of oppressive regimes, to scholarly debates about forms of effective governance. By treating patriarchy as a powerful tool to think with, rather than a factual description of social relations, the text makes a useful contribution to current social and political thought.1","PeriodicalId":376853,"journal":{"name":"Lilith: A Feminist History Journal","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125042057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Theatrics of Protest: Bessie Harrison Lee and Performing the Values of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union","authors":"Jenny Caligari","doi":"10.22459/lfhj.26.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/lfhj.26.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":376853,"journal":{"name":"Lilith: A Feminist History Journal","volume":"443 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128689239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Female Invisibility in the Male’s World of Plantation-Era Tropical North Queensland","authors":"Bianka Vidonja Balanzategui","doi":"10.22459/lfhj.26.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/lfhj.26.07","url":null,"abstract":"Australian rural history accounts abound with the admirable, foolhardy and often savage exploits of white male protagonists, while women, white or of colour, are generally invisible. This is despite the fact there is a substantial primary record of the history of European settlement in rural Australia. Taking the Herbert River Valley, located in tropical north Queensland, as a case study, this article fleshes out the scant detail of the women who, alongside the men, battled life on the frontier of European incursion into Indigenous Country. It will focus on the experiences of three women: Manbarra woman Jenny, Melanesian indentured labourer Annie Etinside, and Australian-born Chinese woman Eliza Jane Ah Bow, and how their lives were enmeshed with those of white women who lived alongside them in the Herbert River Valley in the late nineteenth century. These women were hardly bystanders and observers but active participants in the drama of colonisation that melded cultures from across the globe.","PeriodicalId":376853,"journal":{"name":"Lilith: A Feminist History Journal","volume":"177 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116341349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}