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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... no. 28 December 2022 of Lilith est. 1984 Lilith
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'What is the ‘new normal’? What does it mean to live in the world ‘post-Covid’? These are not new questions; they are questions that have been asked—sometimes hopefully, sometimes in mourning—since 11 March 2020 when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19 to be a pandemic. In characterising Covid-19 as a global pandemic WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the following remarks: ‘Pandemic is not a word to use lightly or carelessly. It’s a word that, if misused, can cause unreasonable fear, or unjustifiable acceptance that the fight is over, leading to unnecessary suffering and death’.1 Words, as Ghebreyesus’s statement signals, shape our orientation within the historical event. To use ‘pandemic’ (rather than, say, epidemic or public health emergency) instills particular moods, behaviours, and political, social and cultural responses. Over the past eight months, as this issue has come together, the language around Covid-19 has shifted. We are now ostensibly living in a ‘post-Covid’ world despite case numbers placing pressure on healthcare systems, numbers of fatalities continuing to climb, the emergence of new variants and the social, economic and political impacts of the pandemic being far from over. Compounding this sense of being ‘after’ Covid is the political rhetoric around the pandemic: Australia’s political leadership in 2022 has presented a narrative of Covid-19 that lives ‘in the past tense’.2 In this context, we highlight Ghebreyesus’s words from what seems like a long time ago at the outset of this issue for several reasons. First, because the questions of living in a ‘post-Covid’ world are ongoing, and will continue for many years to come, and historians—particularly feminist historians—must address these questions. Secondly, because the ubiquity of the conversation of what the ‘post-Covid’ world will look like evokes long discussions from scholars about the prefix ‘post-’ in political rhetoric.' (Editorial introduction)

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* Contents derived from the 2022 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
[Review] Sound Citizens : Australian Women Broadcasters Claim Their Voice, 1923-1956, Belinda Eslick , single work review
— Review of Sound Citizens : Australian Women Broadcasters Claim their Voice, 1923-1956 Catherine Fisher , 2021 single work biography ;
'Catherine Fisher’s Sound Citizens offers a valuable and much-needed account of the significant contributions of female broadcasters in Australia, tracking women’s involvement in radio from the introduction of radio broadcasting in 1923 to the introduction of television in 1956. Fisher organises this account around discussions of the significance of female broadcasters during the interwar period, through the Second World War, and in post-war Australia. Importantly, the book challenges the view that the designation of separate ‘women’s programs’ on radio merely reinforced patriarchal expectations of women’s civic role (i.e. as restricted to the home). Sound Citizens offers an important cultural representation of women’s voices in Australian broadcasting and in public discourse more broadly, demonstrating how women used radio to advocate for social change and to encourage other women to engage in local, national and global affairs—often by making important links between the ‘private’ and ‘public’ spheres. As Fisher convincingly argues, radio transformed women’s lives because it was a medium that women working in the home could engage with while doing unpaid or paid domestic work and care.' (Introduction)
(p. 155-157)
[Review] Vera Deakin and the Red Cross, Nicola Ritchie , single work review
— Review of Vera Deakin and the Red Cross Carole Woods , 2020 single work biography ;
'In Carole Woods’s biography, Vera Deakin and the Red Cross, there is no room for speculation on the internal life and thoughts of its subject, Vera1. This readable and fast-paced biography is a welcome addition to the limited scholarship on Vera and will hopefully lead to a wider interest in her life and legacy that, until now, has mostly been confined to the work of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria.2 The work focuses primarily on Vera’s experiences during World War I (WWI) as she established the Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Bureau (RCWMB), but glosses over her post-war life and work in World War II (WWII). This book provides an important foundational text for further research, although is stretched a bit far in trying to provide a comprehensive biography of both Vera Deakin and the Red Cross in Australia, as implied by the title.' (Introduction)
(p. 159 - 161)
[Review] My Body Keeps Your Secrets, Zoe Smith , single work review
— Review of My Body Keeps Your Secrets Lucia Osborne-Crowley , 2021 single work autobiography biography ;
'Sometimes what hurts us the most is the aftermath, the everyday challenge of living in a body that has been damaged and disrespected and shamed’, Lucia Osborne-Crowley provocatively asserts in the opening chapter of her second non-fiction work, My Body Keeps Your Secrets (26). The recent #Me Too movement has focused on uplifting the voices of survivors of sexual assault and sexual harassment, encouraging them to speak out about their experiences in order to demonstrate the prevalence of rape and the insidious culture of misogyny that male violence is unquestioningly constructed upon. Osborne-Crowley’s work shows the capacity and need for progression beyond attention centred around survivors’ experiences of the moment of rape and sexual harassment, focusing instead on ‘the years and years and years ... that come after the assault’ (25). My Body Keeps Your Secrets gives prominence to survivors’ experiences of exactly that, survival, and how they cope with both the aftermath of violence and abuse, and the impact that growing up in an oppressive society takes on female and non-binary bodies.'  (Introduction) 
(p. 163 - 165)

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