Cirrus@Austlit

 'In  this  hybrid  work  of  history  and  memoir,  writer  and  historian  Danielle  Scrimshaw examines the lives of queer women in Australia with a view to making this historically sidelined area of study both visible and accessible to a lay audience. Leaning on the work of historians such as Lucy Chesser, Joy  Damousi,  Ruth  Ford,  Rebecca  Jennings,  Sylvia  Martin,  Shirleene  Robinson  and  others,  Scrimshaw  takes  the  reader  on  a  journey  through  Australia’s  queer  past,  with  its  primary  period  of  interest  being  from  the  mid-nineteenth  century  to  the  1980s.  Across  twelve  chapters,  the  author  recounts  the  stories  of  Australian  women  who  led  queer  lives,  and  places  them  in  conversation  with  her  own  personal  history  and  lived  experience  as a young, queer woman in the present day.' (Introduction)