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Barbara Caine

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Barbara Caine
Born(1948-04-02)2 April 1948
South Africa
NationalityAustralian
EducationPh D Monash University
Alma materUniversity of Sydney
OccupationHistorian & Professor
EmployerUniversity of Sydney
Known forWomen History

Barbara Caine AM is an Australian feminist historian.[1]

Biography

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She was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, then her family settled in Australia in 1960.[2] Since 2015 she has been the Head of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney.[3] She has written extensively on British and Australian women's history, and has written biographies of a number of historical figures, including the Strachey family and the Webb family.

Caine researches and writes in the fields of nineteenth-century studies,[4] women's history and biography and life-writing. She is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and the British Royal Historical Society.[5]

Caine established the first Women's Studies Centre in Australia at the University of Sydney, and oversaw its development into a Department of Women's Studies.

Awards and honours

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In 2014, Caine became a member of the Order of Australia "for significant service to tertiary education, particularly gender studies, and as a role model and mentor".[6]

Bibliography

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Books

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  • Victorian Feminists, 1992, Oxford University Press[7][8]
  • Destined to be wives: the sisters of Beatrice Webb, 1996, Clarendon Press[9]
  • English Feminism 1780-1980, 1997, Oxford University Press[10]
  • Gendering European History: 1780-1920 (with Glenda Sluga), 2000, Leicester University Press[11]
  • Bombay to Bloomsbury: a Biography of the Strachey family, 2005, Oxford University Press
  • Biography and History, 2010, Palgrave Macmillan UK[12]

Edited books

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  • Crossing Boundaries: Feminism and the Critique of Knowledges (with Marie de Lepervanche), 1988, Allen and Unwin
  • Transitions: new Australian feminisms (with Rosemary Pringle), 1995, Allen and Unwin
  • Australian Feminism: a Companion (with Moira Gatens, Emma Grahame, Jan Larbalestier, Sophie Watson, Elizabeth Webby), 1999, Oxford University Press
  • Companion to Women's Historical Writing (with Mary Spongberg and Ann Curthoys), 2005, Palgrave Macmillan
  • Friendship: A History, 2009, Equinox Publishing Ltd

References

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  1. ^ Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza (1 May 2014). Empowering Memory and Movement: Thinking and Working Across Borders. Augsburg Fortress Pub. pp. 353–. ISBN 978-1-4514-8181-5.
  2. ^ Sharon M. Harrison (2 May 2014). "Caine, Barbara (1948-)". The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.
  3. ^ "Professor Barbara Caine". Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, University of Sydney. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  4. ^ Ben Griffin (12 January 2012). The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain: Masculinity, Political Culture and the Struggle for Women's Rights. Cambridge University Press. pp. 61–. ISBN 978-1-107-01507-4.
  5. ^ "Fellows: Barbara Caine". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Archived from the original on 22 March 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  6. ^ "Queen's Birthday honours: full list". Sydney Morning Herald. 9 June 2014
  7. ^ Emily Davies; Ann B. Murphy; Deirdre Raftery (2004). Emily Davies: Collected Letters, 1861-1875. University of Virginia Press. pp. 51–. ISBN 978-0-8139-2232-4.
  8. ^ Kathryn Bond Stockton (1994). God Between Their Lips: Desire Between Women in Irigaray, Brontë, and Eliot. Stanford University Press. pp. 78–. ISBN 978-0-8047-2344-2.
  9. ^ Helena Michie (21 December 2006). Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal. Cambridge University Press. pp. 117–. ISBN 978-1-139-46296-9.
  10. ^ Anthony Howe; Simon Morgan (2006). Rethinking Nineteenth-century Liberalism: Richard Cobden Bicentenary Essays. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. pp. 229–. ISBN 978-0-7546-5572-5.
  11. ^ Jackson, Peter . "Book review: Gendering European History 1780—1920"[permanent dead link‍]. University of Newcastle Australia
  12. ^ David Dean (4 December 2014). History, Memory, Performance. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 83–. ISBN 978-1-137-39389-0.
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ABC interview on the relationship between biography and history<http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bookshow/biography-and-history/2930992>

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