'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)
