A List - Some Histories Written by Women

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• Wolffram, Heather, The Stepchildren of Science. Psychical Research and Parapsychology in Germany, c. 1870-1939 (Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2009).
• Weiss, Gillian, Captives and Corsairs: France and Slavery in the Early Modern Mediterranean, (Stanford, California:  Stanford University Press, 2011).
• Tiernan, Anne and Patrick Weller, Learning to be a Minister: Heroic Expectations, Practical Realities (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2010).
• South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council, John Host with Chris Owen, “It’s Still in my Heart, This is My Country”: The Single Noongar Claim History (Crawley, Western Australia: UWA Publishing, 2009).
• Reynolds, Kathrine M, The Frauenstein Letters: Aspects of Nineteenth Century Emigration from the Duchy of Nassau to Australia (Bern: Peter Lang, 2009).
• Proctor, Tammy, Civilians in a World at War, 1914-1918 (New York and London: New York University Press, 2010).
• Piggott, Michael and Maggie Shapley, Prime Ministers at the Australian National University: An Archival Guide, (Canberra:  ANU eView, 2011).
• Osborne, Elizabeth, Throwing off the Cloak: Reclaiming Self-reliance in Torres Strait (Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2009).
• Niall, Brenda, True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack, (Melbourne:  The Text Publishing Company, 2012).
• Niner, Sara, Xanana: Leader of the Struggle for an Independent Timor-Leste (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2009).
• Murphy, John, Suellen Murray, Jenny Chalmers, Sonia Martina and Greg Marston, Half a Citizen: Life on Welfare in Australia, (Sydney:  Allen and Unwin, 2011).
• Mukerjee, Madhusree, Churchill’s Secret War. The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War Two (Chennai: Tranquebar Press, 2010).
• Monsour, Anne, Not Quite White: Lebanese and the White Australia Policy 1880 to 1947 (Brisbane: Post Pressed, 2010).
• Kirkby, Diane, Voices From the Ships: Australia’s Seafarers and their Union (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2008).
• Kerin, Rani, Doctor Do-Good: Charles Duguid and Aboriginal Advancement, 1930s-1960s, (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2011).
• Keene, Judith, Treason on the Airwaves: Three Allied Broadcasters on Axis Radio During World War II (Westport, Connecticut and London: Praeger, 2009).
• Johnston, Anna, The Paper War: Morality, Print Culture, and Power in Colonial New South Wales, (Crawley, Western Australia:  UWA Publishing, 2011).
• Howsam, Leslie, Past into Print: The Publishing of History in Britain 1850–1950, (London:  British Library Publishing Division, 2009).
• Holmes, Katie, Spaces in Her Day:  Australian Women’s Diaries 1920s-1930s, (St Leonards, NSW:  Allen & Unwin, 1995).
• Holmes, Katie, Between the Leaves: Stories of Australian Women, Writing and Gardens, (Perth:  UWA Publishing, 2011).
• Hillel, Margot and Shurlee Swain, Child, Nation, Race and Empire: Child Rescue Discourses, England, Canada and Australia, 1850–1915 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010).
• Hetherington, Penelope, Paupers, Poor Relief and Poor Houses in Western Australia 1829-1910 (Perth: University of Western Australia Publishing, 2009).
• Henderson, Anne, Joseph Lyons: The People’s Prime Minister, (Sydney:  University of New South Wales Press).
• Helmi, Nadine and Gerhard Fischer, The Enemy at Home: German Internees in World War I Australia, (Sydney:  University of New South Wales Press, 2011).
• Harper, Marjory, and Stephen Constantine, Migration and Empire, (Oxford, New York:  Oxford University Press, 2010).
• Haebich, Anna, Murdering Stepmothers: The Execution of Martha Rendell (Crawley: UWA Publishing, 2009).
• Griffen-Foley, Bridget, Changing Stations: The Story of Australian Commercial Radio (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2009).
• Fitzpatrick, Sheila, My Father’s Daughter: Memories of an Australian Childhood (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2010).
• Fitzherbert, Margaret, So Many Firsts (Sydney: The Federation Press, 2009).
• Fels, Marie Hansen, ‘I Succeeded Once’:  The Aboriginal Protectorate on the Mornington Peninsula, 1839–1840, (ANU E Press, 2011).
• Falkiner, Suzanne, The Imago: E. L. Grant Watson & Australia (Perth: UWA Publishing, 2011).
• Falconer, Delia, Sydney, (Sydney:  UNSW Press, 2010).
• Edmonds, Penny, Urbanizing Frontiers: Indigenous Peoples and Settlers in 19^th-Century Pacific Rim Cities (British Columbia: University of British Columbia Press 2010).
• Doulman, Jane and David Lee, Every Assistance and Protection: A History of the Australian Passport (Annandale: The Federation Press, 2008).
• De Vries, Susanna, The Complete Book of Heroic Australian Women:  Twenty-one Pioneering Women Whose Stories Changed History, (Pymble, NSW:  Harper Collins, 2010).
• De Matos, Christine, Imposing Peace and Prosperity: Australia, Social Justice and Labour Reform in Occupied Japan (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2008).
• Debelle, Penelope, Red Silk: The Life of Elliott Johnston QC (Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press, 2011).
• Damousi, Joy, Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia, 1840–1940 (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press 2010).
• Curthoys, Ann and Ann McGrath, How to Write History That People Want to Read (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2009).
• Curthoys, Ann, Ann Genovese and Alexander Reilly, Rights and Redemption: History, Law and Indigenous Peoples (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2008).
• Curby, Pauline, Randwick, (Sydney:  Randwick City Council, 2009).
• Cunningham, Sophie, Melbourne, (Kensington, NSW:  University of New South Wales Press, 2011).
• Cowlishaw, Gillian, The City’s Outback (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2009).
• Clarsen, Georgine, Eat My Dust. Early Women Motorists (USA, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).
• Clark, Jennifer, Aborigines and Activism: Race, Aborigines and the Coming of the Sixties to Australia (Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2008).
• Christopher, Emma, A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain’s Convict Disaster and How It Led to the Settlement of Australia, (Sydney:  Allen and Unwin, 2010).
• Cherry, Derelie, From Scotland to Sydney, (Kulnura, NSW:  Paradise Publishers, 2012).
• Chappell, Louise, John Chesterman and Lisa Hill, The Politics of Human Rights in Australia (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
• Chanin, Eileen, Book Life:  The Life and Times of David Scott Mitchell 1836-1907, (North Melbourne, Vic:  Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2011).
• Cash, John and Joy Damousi, Footy Passions (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press Ltd, 2009).
• Carey, Hilary M., God’s Empire: Religion and Colonialism in the British World, c.1801-1908, (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2011).
• Capp, Fiona, My Blood’s Country: In the Footsteps of Judith Wright, (Sydney:  Allen & Unwin, 2010).
• Standish, Ann, Australia Through Women’s Eyes (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2008).
• Somerville, Margaret, and Tony Perkins, Singing the Coast (Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press 2010).
• Smith, Vanessa, Intimate Strangers: Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters,(Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2010).
• Shellam, Tiffany, Shaking Hands on the Fringe: Negotiating the Aboriginal World at King George’s Sound (Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2009).
• Sawer, Marian, Norman Abjorensen and Phil Larkin, Australia. The State of Democracy (Sydney: The Federation Press, 2009).
• Saunders, Kay, Notorious Australian Women, (Pymble, NSW:  Harper Collins Publishers, 2011).
• Santich, Barbara, Bold Palates: Australia’s Gastronomic Heritage, (Wakefield Press, 2012).
• Sanders, Karin, Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press 2009).
• Ryan, Lyndall, Tasmanian Aborigines: A New History, (Allen and Unwin, 2012).
• Russell, Penny, Savage or Civilised? Manners in Colonial Australia (Sydney: New South Wales Press 2011).
• Otto, Kristin, Capital: Melbourne When It Was the Capital City of Australia 1901–27 (Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2009).
• McKenzie, Kirsten, A Swindler’s Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press 2009).
• MacKinnon, Alison, Women, Love and Learning: The Double Bind, (Bern:  Peter Lang, 2010).
• McIntyre, Perry, Free Passage: The Reunion of Irish Convicts and their Families in Australia 1788-1852, (Dublin:  Irish Academic Press, 2011).
• Lowenstein, Wendy, Weevils in the Flour:  An oral record of the 1930s depression in Australia, (Fitzroy, Vic:  Scribe Publications Pty Ltd, 1981).
• Linfield, Susie, The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence, (Chicago and London:  The University of Chicago Press, 2010).
• Krichauff, Skye, Nharangga Wargunni Bugi-Buggillu: A Journey through Narungga History (Kent Town: Narungga Aboriginal Progress Association in association with Wakefield Press, 2011).
• Burton, Pamela, From Moree to Mabo: The Mary Gaudron Story (Crawley: UWA Publishing, 2010).
• Bradley, John with Yanyuwa Families, Singing Saltwater Country: Journeys to the Songlines of Carpentaria (Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 2010).
• Bellanta, Melissa, Larrikins: A History, (St Lucia, Qld:  UQP, 2012).
• Austin-Broos, Diane, A Different Inequality: The Politics of Debate about Remote Aboriginal Australia, (Sydney:  Allen and Unwin, 2011).
• Arianrhod, Robyn, Seduced by Logic: Emilie du Chatelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian revolution, (St Lucia, Qld:  UQP, 2011).
• Anderson, Stephanie, Pelletier: The Forgotten Castaway of Cape York (Melbourne: Melbourne Books, 2009). 
• Anderson, Fay and Richard Trembath, Witnesses to War: The History of Australian Conflict Reporting (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2011).
• Adam-Smith, Patsy, Australian women at war, (Melbourne:  Thomas Nelson, 1984).