Dr Jane Carey
Monash Fellow
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Publications
Books
Books
Jane Carey, Under the Microscope: Australian Women and Science (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, forthcoming 2009)
Leigh Boucher, Jane Carey, and Katherine Ellinghaus (eds), Re-Orienting Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the History of an Identity (New York: Palgrave, 2009)
Jane Carey and Claire Mclisky (eds), Creating White Australia (Sydney University Press, 2009)
Leigh Boucher, Jane Carey and Katherine Ellinghaus (eds), Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the Emergence of an Identity (Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2007), xxiii+480pp
Refereed Journal Articles
Jane Carey, ‘A Transnational Project? Women and Gender in the Social Sciences in Australia, 1890-1945’, Women’s History Review, 18, no. 1 (2009).
Jane Carey, ‘Engendering Scientific Pursuits: Australian Women and Science, 1880-1960’, Limina 7 (2001): 10-25.
Patricia Grimshaw and Jane Carey, ‘Kathleen Fitzpatrick (1905-1990), Margaret Kiddle (1914-1958) and Australian History after the Second World War’, Gender and History 13, no. 2 (2001): 349-73.
Jane Carey, ‘No Place for a Woman? Class, Modernity and Colonialism in the Gendering of Australian Science, 1885–1940’, Lilith: A Feminist History Journal 10 (2001): 153-172.
Book Chapters
Jane Carey, “Women’s Objective—A Perfect Race”: Whiteness, Eugenics and the Articulation of Race’, in Re-Orienting Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the History of an Identity, eds Leigh Boucher, Jane Carey and Katherine Ellinghaus (New York: Palgrave, forthcoming 2009).
Jane Carey, Leigh Boucher and Katherine Ellinghaus, ‘Re-Orienting Whiteness: A New Agenda for the Field’, in Re-Orienting Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the History of an Identity, eds Leigh Boucher, Jane Carey and Katherine Ellinghaus (New York: Palgrave, forthcoming 2009).
Jane Carey, ‘“Wanted—A Real White Australia”: The Women’s Movement, Whiteness and the Settler-colonial Project’, in Studies in Settler Colonialism: Politics, Identity, Culture, eds Fiona Bateman and Lionel Pilkington, (New York: Palgrave, forthcoming 2009).
Jane Carey, ‘White Anxieties and the Articulation of Race: The Women’s Movement and the Making of White Australian, 1910s-1930s’, in Jane Carey and Claire Mclisky (eds), Creating White Australia (Sydney University Press, forthcoming 2009)
Jane Carey and Patricia Grimshaw, ‘Modern Australia’, in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, ed. Bonnie Smith (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).
Jane Carey, Leigh Boucher and Katherine Ellinghaus, ‘“Historicising Whiteness: Towards a New Research Agenda’, in Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the Emergence of an Identity eds Leigh Boucher, Jane Carey and Katherine Ellinghaus (Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2007), vi-xxiii.
Jane Carey, ‘“Not only a white race, but a race of the best whites”: The Women’s Movement, White Australia and Eugenics between the Wars’, in Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the Emergence of an Identity, eds Leigh Boucher, Jane Carey and Katherine Ellinghaus (Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2007), 162-70.
Jane Carey, ‘Displaying Whiteness: Visions of Western Femininity at the World’s Fairs, 1876-1893’, in Rethinking Colonial Histories: New and Alternative Approaches, eds Penelope Edmonds and Samuel Furphy (Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2006), 53-70.
Jane Carey & Patricia Grimshaw, ‘The First 95 Years: Women Academic Staff in the History Department, 1909 to 2004’, in The Life of the Past: The Discipline of History at the University of Melbourne 1855-2005, eds Fay Anderson & Stuart Macintyre (Melbourne: RMIT Publishing/Department of History, University of Melbourne, 2006), 127-54.
Jane Carey, ‘Recreating British Womanhood: Ethel Osborne and the Construction of White Middle-class Femininity in Early Twentieth-Century Melbourne’, in Exploring the British World: Identity - Cultural Production – Institutions, eds Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw, Kiera Lindsey and Stuart Mcintyre (Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2004), 21-39.
Jane Carey, ‘Departing from Their Sphere? Australian Women in Science, 1880-1960’, in Departures: How Australia Reinvents Itself, ed. Xavier Pons (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002), 175-83.
Jane Carey, ‘Women in the Museum’, in Carolyn Rasmussen, A Museum for the People: A History of Museum Victoria and Its Predecessors, 1854-2000 (Melbourne: Scribe Publications, 2001), 240-45.
Dictionary Entries
Jane Carey, ‘Margaret Blackwood (1909–1986)’, in The Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 17, ed. Diane Langmore (Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing, 2007).
Jane Carey, ‘Ellen Clark (1921–1987)’ in The Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 17, ed. Diane Langmore (Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing, 2007).
Book Reviews
God's Willing Workers: Women and Religion in Australia by Anne O’Brien (Sydney: UNSW Press: 2005) Australian Humanities Review, Issue 39-40 (2006).
To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and Modernity, by Angela Woollacott (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001) Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 11 (2002).
D.J., by Barbara Falk, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2001, Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 10 (2001).
The Centenary Companion to Australian Federation, edited by Helen Irving, Melbourne Historical Journal 28 (2000).
Other Publications
Jane Carey and Patricia Grimshaw, Women Historians and Women’s History: Kathleen Fitzpatrick (1905-1990), Margaret Kiddle (1914-1958) and the Melbourne History School, Working Paper No. 5 (Melbourne: History of the University Unit, University of Melbourne, 2001).
Jane Carey, ‘Hope Black, née Macpherson (1919- ): First Female Curator at the Museum of Victoria’, Australasian Science 21, no. 5 (2000).
Jane Carey, ‘Valerie May (1916- )’ Australasian Science 20, no. 9 (1999).
Jane Carey, ‘Margaret Blackwood (1909-1986)’, Australasian Science 20, no. 3, (1999).
Jane Carey, Women and Science at the University of Melbourne: Reflections on the Career of Dame Margaret Blackwood, Working Paper No. 2 (Melbourne: History of the University Unit, the University of Melbourne, 1996).
Jane Carey et al (eds), Reflections on Gendering History, Melbourne University History Advanced Seminar Papers: No. 2 (Melbourne: Department of History, University of Melbourne, 1996.