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Personal History

Marian Quartly studied at Adelaide and Monash Universities, and her first appointment was at the University of Western Australia. She has taught at Monash since 1980. She has served as editor of Australian Historical Studies, and is currently editing the recently founded History Australia, the journal of the Australian Historical Association. Her research has ranged across nineteenth century Australia, covering the history of nationalism, the family, religion, and the construction of male and female sexualities. Currently she is investigating various aspects of the history of gendered white citizenship in the twentieth century. She is also involved in a longterm attempt to write a historical novel around the history of her fictionalised family.

Current Research

My research ranges across a number of areas; the common link is the idea and the experience of Australian citizenship - the ways in which white Australians have understood their relationship to the state and the nation. I have published and presented as conference papers several studies of visual representations of types of Australian male citizens - workers, employers, and soldiers. I am also interested in the histories of conservative women's organisations, and the ideas of their members about women's citizenship; I am undertaking with Judy Smart a history of the National Council of Women. I am working with Liza Dale and the Victorian Women on Farms Gatherings group to set up an online repository of materials generated by the Gatherings, as an exercise in community memory making and identity. And with Denise Cuthbert, Shurlee Swain, Kate Murphy and a broad support group I am undertaking an ARC-supported history of adoption in Australia, with the aim of giving voice to all the various parties affected by the adoption process, and of assessing their experience with an eye to current policy formation.

Major Publications

Books
Creating a Nation (one of four writers) McPhee Gribble/Penguin, Melbourne, 1994 (new edition API Network, 2006)
Freedom Bound I: Documents on women in colonial Australia (one of three editors) Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1995
Stepping out of history: documents of women at work in Australia, ed., Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1991. (with J. Damousi) pp. 194.
Australians 1838, (coeditor and major contributor), Fairfax, Syme & Weldon, Sydney 1987, pp. 474.
Westralian Voices: Documents in Western Australian Society History,(editor and contributor), U.W.A. Press, 1979, pp. 331.
Lillydale, the Billanook Country, Gray Hunt, Melbourne, 1972, pp. 130.

Chapters and Journal Articles since 1990
'Fat man v. 'The people': Labour intellectuals and the making of oppositional identities, 1890-1901', Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 2007, pp. 31-56.
'Nationhood as represented in images of Australian soldiers published in newspapers and journals juring the First World War', Australian Studies, British Australian Studies Association, 2007, pp. 291-318.
'Into the new millenium', Creating a Nation, API Network, Perth, Western Australia, 2006, pp. 309-325.
'The Australian Women's National League and Democracy, 1904-1921',Women's History Review, vol 15, no. 1, March 2006, pp. 35-50.
'Making Working-Class Heroes: Labor Cartoonists and the Australian Worker, 1903-1916', Labour History, no.89, November 2005
'Muscles and manhood: Labor cartoonists and the Australian worker', When Journalism Meets History: Refereed papers from the Australian Media Traditions conference 2003, Informit eLibrary, 2004.
'Defending "the purity of home life" against Socialism: the Founding Years of the Australian Women's National League,' The Australian Journal of Politics and History, June 2004, vol. 50, no.2.
'Women Citizens of the New Nation: Reading Some Visual Evidence', Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, November 2002.
'Victoria', in The Centenary Companion to Australian Federation, ed. Helen Irving, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1999.
'The ANA's Bendigo Banquet: A Democratic Moment?' The New Federalist, no. 3, June 1999.
'Alexander Hasluck, Historian' in Paul Hasluck in Australian History, ed. T. Stannage et al, University of Queensland Press, 1999.
'John and Charlotte Bussell; Authority and Affection', For Richer For Poorer:Australian Marriages, ed. P.Russell, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1993.
'Mothers & Fathers and Brothers & Sisters: The AWA and the ANA and Gendered Citizenship',in R. Howe (ed.),Women and the State: Australian Perspectives, La Trobe University Press, Bundoora, 1993.
'Bending the Bars: Convict Women and the State', in K. Saunders & R.Evans (eds), Gender Relations in Australia: Domination and Negotiation, Harcourt Brace Janovich, Sydney 1992.
'Imagining New South Wales as a gendered society, 1782 1821', Australian Historical Studies, 98, April 1992.
'History, Archive & Celebrations of Nationality' Archives and Manuscripts vol. 19, no. 2, November 1991.

Areas of Research & Supervision

Australian social, political, and religious history; women's history and gender history.

Teaching

No teaching commitments.