Project team publications, conference papers and other presentations

Books

Shurlee Swain and M. Hillel (2010) Child, nation, race and empire: Child rescue discourse, England, Canada and Australia, 1850-1915, Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Ceridwen Spark and Denise Cuthbert (2009) Other People’s Children: Adoption in Australia. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.

Book chapters

Shurlee Swain (2010) ‘Australia’, in Brigitte Bechtold and Donna Cooper Graves (eds) An Encyclopedia of Infanticide, Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press.

Denise Cuthbert and Ceridwen Spark (2009) 'Other People's Children: Informing Debate on Adoption in Australia' in Ceridwen Spark and Denise Cuthbert, eds. Other People's Children: Adoption in Australia. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, pp. 1-20.

Denise Cuthbert and Ceridwen Spark (2009). 'Society moves to find it own solutions…: Rethinking the divergent histories of domestic and intercountry adoption in Australia since 1975' in Ceridwen Spark and Denise Cuthbert, eds., Other People's Children: Adoption in Australia. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, pp. 37-52.

Refereed journal articles

2011

Patricia Fronek and Denise Cuthbert (forthcoming 2011) The future of intercountry adoption: a new paradigm for a new century? International Journal of Social Welfare.

2010

Denise Cuthbert, Ceridwen Spark and Kate Murphy (2010). “That was then… but this is now”: historical perspectives on intercountry and domestic child adoption in Australian public policy’ Journal of Historical Sociology.23.3: 427-52.

Denise Cuthbert and Marian Quartly (2010). ‘Introduction: Re-thinking the out-of-home care of Australian children’ Children Australia, Special issue ‘Re-thinking the out-of-home care of Australian children’ edited by Marian Quartly and

Denise Cuthbert. 35.2:  2-5

Denise Cuthbert. (2010). ‘Beyond Apologies: Historical Reflections on policy and practice relating to the out-of-home care of children in contemporary Australia’ Children Australia, special issue ‘Re-thinking the out-of-home care of Australian children’ edited by Marian Quartly and Denise Cuthbert. 35.2: 12-17.

Kate Murphy, Sara Pinto and Denise Cuthbert (2010).“‘These infants are future Australians’: Making the Nation through Intercountry Adoption.” Journal of Australian Studies. 34. 2: 141-161.

Nell Musgrove and Shurlee Swain (2010) 'The "best interests of the child" in historical perspective' Children Australia, 35: 2, 35-7.

Marian Quartly (2010) ‘The “rights of the child” in global perspective’ Children Australia, 35.2: 38-42.

Shurlee Swain (2010) ‘Birth and Death in a New Land’ History of the Family, 15: 25-33.

2009

Denise Cuthbert, Kate Murphy, Marian Quartly (2009). 'Adoption and Feminism: Towards framing a feminist response to contemporary developments in adoption' Australian Feminist Studies, 24.2: 395-419.

Kate Murphy, Marian Quartly, and Denise Cuthbert (2009). 'In the best interests of the child: The re-emergence of pro-adoption discourses in Australia' Australian Journal of Politics and History 55.2: 201-18.

Marian Quartly, Denise Cuthbert, and Kate Murphy (2009). 'Political representations of adoption in Australia, 1996-2007,' Adoption and Culture 2: 141-58.

Unpublished Refereed Conference Papers and other Presentations

2010

Denise Cuthbert and Kathy Lothian (2010). ‘War waifs and warrior women: feminine activism and the “rescue” of children in Operation Babylift, April 1975’ Paper presented at the Vietnam Inheritance Symposium, April 2010, Monash University, Melbourne.

Denise Cuthbert (2010). The policy gap in the sociology of adoption (and other adoption research as well). Paper presentation at the International Summit on Intercountry Adoption, , September 2010, Stratford, Ontario.

Denise Cuthbert (2010). Rocking the boat: Intercountry Adoption, the care of children and the “failures of national governments” Paper presented at the ASSA-funded workshop, Interdisciplinary social science perspectives on intercountry adoption: history, policy, experience. 30 September & 1 October 2010, Monash University, Melbourne.

Denise Cuthbert and Marian Quartly (2010) Revisiting the first Australian Adoption Conference (1976): child removal, the politics of the personal and the story of the nation. Paper presented at the Social Science History Association Conference, November 2010, Chicago.

Marian Quartly (2010) “We find families for babies, not babies for families” Paper presented at the ASSA-funded workshop, Interdisciplinary social science perspectives on intercountry adoption: history, policy, experience. 30 September & I October 2010, Monash University, Melbourne.

Shurlee Swain (2010) “Wanted kind person to adopt” Paper presented at the Australian Historical Association Biennial Conference6-9 July 2010, Perth.

2009

Shurlee Swain (2009) Outside/In: Discursive Transformations of the Child at Risk, 1850-1915, Paper presented at the conference on Childhood and the Child: Representations and Social Experiences,University of New England, Coffs Harbour.

Shurlee Swain (2009) What shall we do with ‘poor little Chinky’? Race and adoption between the wars  Paper presented at the conference Perspectives on Local and Intercountry Adoption: Canada, the United States, Australia, June, 2009, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne.

Shurlee Swain (2009) Adoption, secrecy and the spectre of the true mother in 20th century Australia Paper presented at the Society for the History of Children and Youth Biennial Conference, July 2009, University of California at Berkeley.

Denise Cuthbert (2009) How can adoption be so bad for Australian children and so good for children born overseas? Paper presented at the conference Perspectives on Local and Intercountry Adoption: Canada, the United States, Australia, June, 2009, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne.

Denise Cuthbert (2009) Here we go again: Why intercountry adoption looks a lot like pre-reform domestic adoption and what we can do about it. Paper presented at the 5th International congress on Family Law and Children's Rights, August 2009, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Denise Cuthbert (2009) Sorry Business and Still More Sorry Business…: Reconciling the politics of black and white 'stolen' children. Paper presented at the 10th Biennial Conference of the European Australian Studies Association, September 2009, Parma Mallorca, Spain.

2008

Denise Cuthbert (2008) Legal Fictions and Necessary Truths: The issues of birth certificates in Australian adoption. Paper presented at the Ninth Australian Conference on Adoption, September 2008, Stamford Plaza Hotel, Sydney.

Marian Quartly (2008) Political representations of adoption in Australia, 1996-2007. Paper presented at the 2nd Conference of the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture, October 2008, Pittsburgh.

Reviews

Expert Comment/Broadcasts

Denise Cuthbert, Adoption in Australia, Wednesday 14 April 2010, ABC Radio Ballarat.

Seminars and symposia

2010 - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Intercountry Adoption in Australia: History, Policy, Practice and Experience workshop, 30 September & I October 2010, Monash University, Melbourne.

2009 - Adoption, fostering, permanent care and beyond symposium, November 2009, Melbourne.

2009 - Perspectives on local and intercountry adoption: Canada, US and Australia seminar and roundtable,  June, 2009, Australian Catholic University,  Melbourne.

2008 - Adoption in Australia: Contemporary Cultural, Theoretical and Political Perspectives symposium, June,2008, Monash University, Melbourne.