History of Women's and Gender Studies in Australia
Australian universities have offered programs in Women's or Gender Studies for more than three decades. For some accounts of these programs, their histories and the intellectual debates and political struggles that have characterised the field in this country, you might like to look at the following publications:
- Caine, Barbara. 'Women's Studies at the University of Sydney'. Australian Feminist Studies 13: 27 (1998), 99-106.
- Curthoys, Ann. 'Women's Studies at the Australian National University: The Early Years'. Australian Feminist Studies 13: 27 (1998), 75-80.
- Dever, Maryanne. Futures for Women's Studies: A Discussion Paper. Working Papers in Women's Studies No. 1, February 2001, Centre for Women's Studies & Gender Research, Monash University.
- Dever, Maryanne, Cuthbert, Denise & Pollak, Lindsey. 'Life After Women's Studies: Graduates and the Labour Market'. In Robyn Wiegman, ed. Women's Studies on its Own: A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002, 312-38.
- Ferrier, Carole. 'Women's and Gender Studies in Australia Today'. Irish Feminist Review Vol. 1 (2005), 15-19.
- Jones, Megan. 'Historicising Feminist Knowledge: Notes Toward a Genealogy of Academic Feminism of the 1970s'. Australian Feminist Studies 13: 27 (1998), 117-28.
- Magarey, Susan, Ryan, Lyndall and Sheridan, Susan. 'Women's Studies in Australia'. In Norma Grieve and Ailsa Burns, eds. Australian Women: Contemporary Feminist Thought. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994, 285-95.
- Probyn, Elspeth. 'Re: Generation. Women's Studies and the Disciplining of Ressentiment'. Australian Feminist Studies 13: 27 (1998), 129-36.
- Ryan, Lyndall. 'Women's Studies'. In Barbara Caine, ed. Australian Feminism: A Companion. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 365-69.
- Sheridan, Susan & Dally, Shirley. Twenty Years: Women's Studies at Flinders, 1986-2006. Adelaide: Lythrum Press, 2006.
- Threadgold, Terry. 'Gender Studies and Women's Studies'. Ed. Reference Group for the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Knowing Ourselves and Others: Humanities in Australia in the 21st Century. Volume 2. Discipline Surveys. Canberra: Australian Research Council, 1998, 127-38.
