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1 Reimagining the ADB Melanie Nolan , Michelle Staff , 2024 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 466 2024; (p. 42-44) 'Unfamiliar readers may assume that the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) is a dusty, dense, traditional encyclopedia, its pages filled with dull entries on those whom posterity has deemed worthy of remembrance. Consisting of twenty heavy tomes (plus addenda), nine million words, and almost 14,000 scholarly biographies, it may seem like an unreadable piece of work that is of little relevance.' (Introduction) 
1 Michelle Staff Review of Jacqueline Kent, Vida : A Woman for Our Time Michelle Staff , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Biography and History , no. 6 2022; (p. 269-273)
— Review of Vida : A Woman for Our Time Jacqueline Kent , 2020 single work biography 'Historians and biographers have been grappling with the question of how to write feminist biography for some time now. In 1994 Barbara Caine noted that ‘biography is at one and the same time antithetical to some of the basic aims and approaches of women’s history—and the avenue that seems most helpful for those seeking to understand the actual historical experiences of women in all their complexity’.1 For some, biography’s traditional focus on ‘exceptional’ people with public lives has sat awkwardly with the democratic ideals of feminist history. But it is an evolving genre that presents an attractive option for those seeking to recover women of the past and interrogate historical feminisms—especially for popular audiences.' (Introduction)
1 Friday Essay : Sex, Power and Anger — a History of Feminist Protests in Australia Angela Woollacott , Michelle Staff , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 26 March 2021;

'Rage and roar are two words commonly used to describe the events of Monday 15 March, when tens of thousands joined the March4Justice: the emotional rage fuelling the protests; the roar of angry shouting voices raised against the treatment of women.' (Introduction)
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