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Alternative title: Lilith : A Feminist History Journal
Issue Details: First known date: 1984... 1984 Lilith
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Lilith was established and first published in 1984 as a forum for the publication of new scholarly work by both established historians and post-graduate students. It is now published annually. While Lilith is based within the History Department at the University of Melbourne, it publishes diverse articles grounded in research undertaken in different countries. These articles deal with historical subject matter that is of interest internationally and crosses the spectrums of time periods and what is understood as 'feminist history'. Lilith is a fully refereed journal committed to publishing articles and reviews on women, gender, sexuality and related issues.

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  • Annual
  • Subtitle: A Feminist History Journal

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First known date: 1984
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Australian Women Writers’ Popular Non-fiction Prose in the Pre-war Period : Exploring Their Motivations Alison Owens , Donna Lee Brien , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture , vol. 11 no. 1-2 2022; (p. 63-80) 'Since the 1970s, feminist scholars have undertaken important critical work on Australian women’s writing of earlier eras, profiling and promoting their fiction. Less attention has been afforded to the popular non-fiction produced by Australian women writers and, in particular, to that produced before the Second World War. Yet this writing is important for several reasons. First, the non-fiction writing of Australian women was voluminous and popular with readers. Second, this popular work critically engaged with a tumultuous political, social and moral landscape in which, as women’s rights were increasingly realized through legislation, the subjectivity of women themselves was fluid and contested. Third, as many of these women were also, or principally, fiction writers, their non-fiction can be shown to have informed and influenced many of their fictional interests, themes and characters. Lastly, and critically, popular non-fiction publication helped to financially sustain many of these writers. In proposing a conceptual framework informed by the work of Pierre Bourdieu to analyse examples of this body of work, this article not only suggests that important connections exist between popular and mainstream non-fiction works – newspaper and magazine articles, essays, pamphlets and speeches – and the fictional publications of Australian women writers of the early twentieth century but also suggests that these connections may represent an Australian literary habitus where writing across genre, form and audience was a professional approach that built and sustained literary careers.' (Publication abstract) 
Intersecting Currents : Lilith and the Development of Feminist History in Australia Jane Carey , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Lilith , no. 24 2018; (p. 4-15)

'The intersecting fields of women's, gender and feminist history are no longer new.1 They can now claim at least fifty years of scholarly practice, and much longer traditions outside the academy.2 The heady radicalism of the early years, when the simple act of writing women's history was an activist intervention, has in some ways been muted (or at least transformed) in the process of 'mainstreaming' and intellectual development that has taken place since the 1970s. This period has seen significant growth in practice and a sophistication that has come with the proliferation of new approaches, internal (sometimes acrimonious) debate and significant challenges to some of the foundational assumptions on which these fields were initially based. As the only history journal in Australia dedicated the fields of women's, gender and feminist history, 'Lilith' has been, and continues to be, a prism through which major developments, and schisms, in the field can be read.'  (Publication abstract)

 
Intersecting Currents : Lilith and the Development of Feminist History in Australia Jane Carey , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Lilith , no. 24 2018; (p. 4-15)

'The intersecting fields of women's, gender and feminist history are no longer new.1 They can now claim at least fifty years of scholarly practice, and much longer traditions outside the academy.2 The heady radicalism of the early years, when the simple act of writing women's history was an activist intervention, has in some ways been muted (or at least transformed) in the process of 'mainstreaming' and intellectual development that has taken place since the 1970s. This period has seen significant growth in practice and a sophistication that has come with the proliferation of new approaches, internal (sometimes acrimonious) debate and significant challenges to some of the foundational assumptions on which these fields were initially based. As the only history journal in Australia dedicated the fields of women's, gender and feminist history, 'Lilith' has been, and continues to be, a prism through which major developments, and schisms, in the field can be read.'  (Publication abstract)

 
Australian Women Writers’ Popular Non-fiction Prose in the Pre-war Period : Exploring Their Motivations Alison Owens , Donna Lee Brien , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture , vol. 11 no. 1-2 2022; (p. 63-80) 'Since the 1970s, feminist scholars have undertaken important critical work on Australian women’s writing of earlier eras, profiling and promoting their fiction. Less attention has been afforded to the popular non-fiction produced by Australian women writers and, in particular, to that produced before the Second World War. Yet this writing is important for several reasons. First, the non-fiction writing of Australian women was voluminous and popular with readers. Second, this popular work critically engaged with a tumultuous political, social and moral landscape in which, as women’s rights were increasingly realized through legislation, the subjectivity of women themselves was fluid and contested. Third, as many of these women were also, or principally, fiction writers, their non-fiction can be shown to have informed and influenced many of their fictional interests, themes and characters. Lastly, and critically, popular non-fiction publication helped to financially sustain many of these writers. In proposing a conceptual framework informed by the work of Pierre Bourdieu to analyse examples of this body of work, this article not only suggests that important connections exist between popular and mainstream non-fiction works – newspaper and magazine articles, essays, pamphlets and speeches – and the fictional publications of Australian women writers of the early twentieth century but also suggests that these connections may represent an Australian literary habitus where writing across genre, form and audience was a professional approach that built and sustained literary careers.' (Publication abstract) 
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