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ACNZSN Book Prize

The Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Studies Network Book Prize is awarded annually to a monograph published by an Early Career Researcher (someone who is within eight years of being awarded their Ph.D. or six years from their first academic appointment) and/or someone who has published their first book, that looks at least two countries of the […]

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New Book: Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives.

In 2015, the Australian federal government proclaimed that violence against women had become a national crisis. Despite widespread social and economic advances in the status of women since the 1970s, including growing awareness and action around gender violence, its prevalence remains alarming. A third of all women in Australia have been assaulted physically; a fifth […]

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New Book: Rethinking the Victim: Gender and Violence in Contemporary Australian Women’s Writing

Anne Brewster and Sue Kossew. This book is the first to examine gender and violence in Australian literature. It argues that literary texts by Australian women writers offer unique ways of understanding the social problem of gendered violence, bringing this often private and suppressed issue into the public sphere. It draws on the international field […]

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New Book: The First World War, the Universities and the Professions in Australia, 1914-1939.

Kate Darian-Smith, James Waghorne Australia’s extraordinary contribution to World War I extended well beyond its military forces to the expertise of its universities and professional men and women. Scientists and engineers oversaw the manufacture of munitions and the development of chemical weapons. Doctors sustained soldiers in the trenches, and treated the physically and psychologically damaged. […]

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New Book: Stranded Nations: White Australia in an Asian Region

For well over a century Australia’s place in Asia has been at the forefront of public discussion and controversy. Stranded Nation is a searching examination of how a ‘white’ nation, harbouring deep anxieties about rising Asia, sought to convince both itself and its neighbours that it belonged within the Asian region. This is the strange […]