Kay Saunders Kay Saunders i(A2131 works by) (a.k.a. Kay Elizabeth Bass Saunders)
Also writes as: K. Saunders
Born: Established: 1947 ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

'Trained in political science and Anthropology, Kay Saunders AM was professor of History and Senator of the University of Queensland from 2002-6. Serving on the Council of the Australian War Memorial, she was Chairman of the Official History to Australia at War Committee. Professor Saunders was appointed to the Council of the National Maritime Museum of Australia and was director of the National Australia Day Council. She served as Chair of the Queensland government's Cultural Advisory Council and was a member of the Premier's Advisory Council on Women's Policy. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, the Royal Historical Society (London) and the Royal Anthropological Institute. In 2001 she received the Medal of the National Museum of Australia and in 2006 was the recipient of the John Kerr Medal from the Royal Historical Society of Queensland. Her most recent books include A Crowning Achievement: A Study of Australian Beauty, Business and Charitable Enterprise (2005) and Between the Covers: Revealing the State Library of Queensland's Collection (2006).' (Website of the Brisbane Institute, http://www.brisinst.org.au/people/saunders_kay.html )

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2021 recipient Order of Australia Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) For distinguished service to tertiary education, particularly to history, as an academic and author, to professional associations, and to the community.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Deadly Australian Women Sydney : ABC Books , 2013 Z1936071 2013 single work biography

'Do women kill? Yes they do, but often for very different reasons to men…

'Meet the women who have murdered – they’ve killed children, husbands, lovers, relatives and friends. They include the desperate, the poor, the abused, the sexually betrayed, and the downright callous. In some cases they were motivated by fear of society’s disapproval, in others they acted to save themselves from violence. Among their number were early backyard abortionists like Madame Olga and Madame Harper, poisoners like Maria Marek and Yvonne Fletcher, women who committed infanticide like Keli Lane, women who formed lovers pacts to murder their husbands and women whose troubled lives on the margins like transgendered Eugenia Falleni/Harry Crawford led them almost inevitably to crime.

'In her first, best-selling book, Notorious Australian Women, author Kay Saunders profiled some of the country’s most scandalous women. Here she turns her eye to those who have broken one of society’s most cherished taboos and become both notorious and deadly.... ' (Publisher's blurb)

2014 shortlisted Davitt Award Best True Crime Book
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