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Alternative title: Lilith : A Feminist History Journal
Issue Details: First known date: 1984... 1984 Lilith
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y separately published work icon Lilith no. 29 January 2023 27351888 2023 periodical issue 'The 2023 volume of Lilith is the first to be produced under the Managing Editorship  of  Alison  Downham  Moore,  a  global,  medical,  sexuality  and  gender historian from Western Sydney University who took over in September 2022 from Alana Piper. While Lilith has always been open to contributors from different world regions and authors working on any geographical or temporal  field  of  historical  studies,  this  volume  evinces  an  enrichment  of  Lilith’s  commitment  to  diversity  and  global  scope,  while  still  maintaining  its important base for emerging scholarship in Australian feminist historical studies. The past year has seen the Lilith Editorial Collective welcome several new members who have contributed to this introduction and shepherded the articles contained in this volume of the journal. We have also farewelled others,  including  Rachel  Caines,  Brydie  Kosmina,  Lauren  Samuelsson,  Jennifer Caligari, Kate Davison and Michelle Staff, whom we thank heartily for their service. Moore’s editorial stewardship and the new collective bring both  a  renewed  commitment  to  encouraging  underrepresented  voices  in  historical  writing,  including  First  Nations  voices,  providing  additional  support for scholars with first languages other than English, and extending a  new  experimental  invitation  to  consider  works  of  scholarship  in  novel  genres of writing for academic journals.' (Editorial introduction)
y separately published work icon Lilith no. 28 December 2022 25968879 2022 periodical issue '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)
y separately published work icon Lilith no. 27 January 2021 23919761 2021 periodical issue 'This new decade began in a baptism of fire with environmental catastrophes in Australia, the Brazilian Amazon and on the west coast of the United States. Political crises took a foothold in global news and became a clarion call for institutional and societal change, as they demonstrated the inherent and devastating nature of white supremacy, white privilege and the continual impact of colonisation. The COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused the loss of millions of lives worldwide, has exposed systemic problems that have previously been ignored or deliberately obscured. The past year and a half has irrevocably transformed how we experience life and how we understand our place in it. ' (Publication summary)
 
y separately published work icon Lilith no. 26 January 2020 23529627 2020 periodical issue 'As we write this editorial, the COVID-19 pandemic is entering its third month. Our everyday lives have drastically changed, requiring us to come to grips with this new normal. In seeking to make sense of the tragedy and immense scale of this global health crisis, parallels have been drawn to other pandemics, particularly the 1919 Spanish flu, which in Australia killed an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 people.1 As feminist historians, we are especially interested in the gendered dimensions of pandemics past and present, including how they have impacted women. There is relatively little research on the gendered effects of the 1919 Spanish flu. We do know, however, that nurses, like those on the frontline today, would have been at higher risk of infection. The responsibility to entertain children, at home due to school closures, also fell entirely on women. Moreover, war widows or those with husbands still overseas who became ill were still expected to carry out their caregiving roles.2 Almost exactly a century later, the context in which COVID-19 is occurring is vastly different; but there are similarities. Opinion pieces proclaim that its flow-on effects have left women ‘anxious, overworked [and] insecure’ and that lockdowns are a ‘disaster for feminism’ as they have placed the burden on women to balance full-time employment with home-schooling and domestic chores.3 Household isolation has also led to a worldwide increase in domestic violence, prompting the United Nations to urge governments to ‘prevent and redress’ violence against women in their pandemic response plans.4 More broadly, it has warned that as a result of COVID-19 and its associated economic impact, ‘even the limited gains [towards gender equality] made in the past decades are at risk of being rolled back’.' (Rachel Harris and Michelle Staff, The Importance of Feminist History in a Global Pandemic : Editorial introduction)
y separately published work icon Lilith no. 25 November 2019 17381350 2019 periodical issue ‘GET OUT OF MY UTERUS’ and ‘Women’s rights are human rights’ are slogans you might expect to see in an exhibition on the Women’s Liberation Movement. Yet in 2019, a year that has seen the sustained activism of women worldwide for recognition of female health concerns, women’s safety and bodily autonomy in the eyes of the State, these slogans are more relevant than ever. Australian women watched as the American state of Alabama passed the most restrictive abortion ban in the United States, containing no exceptions for rape or incest. Closer to home, anti-abortion groups recently rallied against a bill proposing to decriminalise abortion in New South Wales. Violence against women remains a national crisis. For Australian women between 15 and 44 years of age, intimate partner violence is the leading cause of death, disability and illness. It is even worse for Indigenous women, who are thirty-seven times more likely to be hospitalised than non-Indigenous women. On average one woman per week is killed by an intimate partner. (Editorial introduction)
y separately published work icon Lilith no. 24 2018 15510953 2018 periodical issue

'At this year’s Australian Women’s History Network Symposium ‘The Past is a Position: History, Activism and Privilege’, Dr Chelsea Bond urged that the past is not a position; it is ever-present. If historical representations of Aboriginal women are products of their time, Bond posed, ‘what time are we in now?’1 She suggested that stories and representations of Aboriginal women continue to enact the damage of colonial constructions. The statement resonated with those who attended as Dr Bond, Associate Professor Barbara Baird and Professor Suvendrini Perera reflected on the ways in which their academic work intersected with their activism. Beyond the symposium, the presence of the past, our past, and the academic and political conflict over its meanings and legacies, has not eased its heavy weight on the intellectual and emotional labour of feminist academics in 2018.' (Georgina Rychner : Editorial introduction)

y separately published work icon Lilith no. 23 2017 12016323 2017 periodical issue

'Intersectionality is a relatively recent term for a deeply historic phenomenon. It refers to the way in which individuals and groups are caught in intersecting systems of oppression, such as class, race and gender. As Ange-Marie Hancock argues, intersectionality has been a ‘pathbreaking analytical framework for understanding questions of inequality and injustice’.1 It has become part of popular culture in recent years as the rise of populism and the growth of inequality in countries across the world have inspired new movements of solidarity between all those who think that black lives matter, or who reject a narrow view of immigration that sees Australia and New Zealand resorting to notions of labour productivity that are closely intertwined with race and gender. Who is understood as deserving in a nation, whether immigrant, refugee, poor, or of colour? Who decides this—and who protests these decisions? How this notion of ‘deserving’ is enacted upon—how this decision is made—is a site upon which individuals negotiate the intersections between huge systems that seek to define populations and individuals. Who gets to use which bathroom or wear which school uniform? Who can go through passport control with ease? The popular rise in engagement with intersectionality evident in these current political examples was anticipated and accompanied by the growth of scholarship on the phenomenon.'  (Editorial introduction)

y separately published work icon Lilith no. 22 2016 12016218 2016 periodical issue

'At the March 2016 ‘Intersections in History’ Conference, eminent feminist historian Professor Patricia Grimshaw recounted the origins of the Australian Women’s History Network (AWHN). The AWHN ‘helped start a conversation’ with the Australian Historical Association (AHA) ‘about [the] representation of women in Ph.D. programs and lecturing’, Grimshaw asserted; it perhaps even forced the AHA to ‘consider gender politics in academia’.1 Access to these enlightening recollections was made possible not through participants’ memory of the conference held at the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre in Melbourne, but through the documentation of the conference on Twitter. Both Lilith: A Feminist History Journal and the AWHN are becoming more engaged with new media technologies, spaces that some argue have a democratising effect and even constitute new forms of feminist activism.2 Indeed, the AWHN will be expanding their efforts in this direction with an upcoming feminist history blog, to be edited by current Lilith Collective members Dr. Alana Piper and Dr. Ana Stevenson. The 2016 AWHN conference topic was in part inspired, or provoked, by the rise of ‘intersectionality’ in online feminist conversations and communities. Conference participants discussed an academic focus on intersections as a productive, but also a seductive, space - one that can illuminate but may also distract.' (Editorial introduction)

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y separately published work icon Lilith no. 8 1993 Z1796655 1993 periodical issue
y separately published work icon Lilith no. 5 Spring 1988 Z1863608 1988 periodical issue
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