This week's spotlight shines on Anna Temby's 'Immodest Successes: The Provision of Public Lavatories for Women in Meanjin (Brisbane), 1912' in which she charts the gendered delineations of urban space and the patriarchal nature of municipal beneficence press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pres…

UTS Business School Michelle Grattan Anne Summers The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand Quite a lot to learn from this article “Abusive Men describe the benefits of violence” voicemalemagazine.org/abusive-men-de…

These spotlights have showcased the wide variety of innovative feminist and gender history that we publish - our 2024 issue promises to be just as diverse! If you'd like to publish with us, keep an eye out for our 2025 call for papers!

Applications are now open for our 2024 Annual History Awards! We reached out to 2023 Max Kelly Award winner Zoe Smith who said "the History Council’s awards are such a great way to have your important and original research recognised" Check out more info buff.ly/44rpBb3

I'll never turn down an opportunity to talk about Leontine Cooper! My review of Deborah Jordan's 'Australian Women’s Justice: Settler Colonisation & the Queensland Vote' is now online ahead of its inclusion in Journal of Australian Studies - thanks JAS for the opportunity! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Incredibly honoured to have been shortlisted for the AHA Jill Roe prize for my work on historicising coercive control (and in such fabulous company as well Ruby Ekkel!)

Thank you Vida for the opportunity to write a TL;DR of my ANUHJ (ANU Press) article! The article & blog focus on the importance of naming rape & rapists on the colonial frontier & the interconnections between physical & sexual violence towards Indigenous Australians in 19thC Qld

NEW at #VIDAblog! Zoe Smith explores the history of the Hornet Bank Massacre in the context of white settler masculinity and sexual violence in colonial Australia. Read the blog ⬇️ auswhn.com.au/blog/manly-vio… Read more in ANU Historical Journal II ⬇️ press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pres…

#OzHA2024: Zoe Smith explores colonial short stories and newspaper coverage about marriage and coverture in New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria to historice the concept of economic violence between 1880 and 1914

@AWHN session with Zoe Smith on economic violence in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century NSW, QLD, and Victoria; Bridget Andresen She/Her on “Rape trials in Post-war Queensland”; and Saneze Tshayana on responses to gender based violence in South Africa. #ozha2024

The #OzHA2024 through my eyes as a first time presenter and attendee. So many talented historians and friendships built. An unforgettable experience- a thread

This is such an incredible honour! A massive thank you to the judges for their very gracious citation and to my support network/supervisors at ANUHistory and ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences for their encouragement!

RIP Judith Allen, one of Australia's best ever historians in my view. I still remember reading 'Evidence and Silence: Feminism and the Limits of History' for the first time, and falling in love-hate with history in that moment. Her work on gender violence remains so important.

New work from Ann Curthoys catherine kevin & myself from a forthcoming special issue of HistAustJournal on gender & law - open access. A partial view: the limits and value of the legal archive for historicising domestic violence tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Everyone meet Zoe (who also happens to be doing all these social media posts)! Zoe Smith (Zoe Smith) is a gender historian & PhD candidate at the Australian National University, writing a feminist, social & cultural history of domestic violence in Australia from 1880-1914. 1/3

First international conference paper done! Thank you to the IFRWH for the opportunity to present here in Tokyo alongside Michelle Staff and Angela Woollacott on our panel Reimagining Feminist Relationships in Australia (plus our wonderful commentator Alecia Simmonds)!

The fabulous Lilith Journal is seeking a new Managing editor. Details below 👇A big thanks also to the terrific outgoing editor Alison Downham Moore.

Absolutely shameful. Shouting out the impending report in our headlines on Thursday Breakfast was the very least I could do as a volunteer community radio broadcaster, meanwhile these newsrooms make a killing off disappearing First Nations people in life and death.

And so it begins! Very excited to be spending the next 6 weeks at the National Library of Australia as the Seymour scholar, delving into the papers and novels of Barbara Baynton, Ada Cambridge, and Rosa Praed, looking for their depictions and experiences of domestic violence in colonial Australia

Join us in welcoming 2024 NLA Scholar, Zoe Smith to the Library! Zoe’s fellowship research will explore our understanding of the cultural meanings and place of domestic violence in Australia at the turn of the 20th century.