Lilith: A Feminist History Journal

Welcome to the sixteenth edition of Lilith, the only Australian journal dedicated to the publication of feminist history. The theme of this issue follows from last year's symposium, 'A Feminist History of Violence: History as a Weapon of Liberation?'...

A seemingly reluctant male actor in a mini-skirt and high heels is forced before the curtain of the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg, and a wig, a pale trench coat and a text are subsequently pushed through the curtain. The actor puts on the wig and coat...

Anarcha-feminism is, ultimately, a tautology. Anarchism seeks the liberation of all human beings from all kinds of oppression and a world without hierarchies, where people freely organise and self-manage all aspects of life and society on the basis...

My colleagues were looking forward with naughty expectation to my conduct of this particular interview, and were more than usually fertile in their suggestions about questions which might be asked. (Lord Wolfenden reflecting on the prospect of interviewing...

This article draws on historical and contemporary sources to explore the contradictions inherent in the project of non-Indigenous support for the Indigenous movement for self-determination. It opens with some observations and accounts from several...

Remembering the stillbirth of her first child over twenty five years ago at a major maternity hospital in Perth, Robin recalled her discharge from the hospital, and the ensuing grief and pain she felt: 'Nobody said anything ... nobody warned me of...

Welcome to the fifteenth edition of Lilith. When the first edition appeared over twenty years ago in 1984, it grew from the need for an Australian journal dedicated to the publication of feminist history. Although at that time the women's liberation...

Henry Abelove has reflected on the different approaches his students have had to the history he teaches. It is the differences between his queer students of the present, and his lesbian and gay students of the past, that he ruminates on; the differences...

It was a dejected image invoked by Jill Matthews in 1986 when she spoke of women historians chancing upon a few 'women worthies', 'grazing quietly' by 'the male stream'. (1) It is even gloomier to picture ourselves there again, chewing the cud of Howard's...

The Australian writer Eleanor Dark referred to time as the dissolving barrier. In her novel The Little Company she says that time is circular: 'The past will coil up behind you like a spring, it will reach over your head to link up with the future...

[E]ven after justice has got the upper hand of force in the world's judgments, a mysterious and undefined difference of sex ... seriously embarrasses the question of equality. --Paulina Wright Davis (1) In 1850, some of the most radical...

On 10 November 1933, a meeting was held at the German Consulate in Sydney to discuss the founding of a newspaper to be called The Kangaroo. This title may have alluded to D.H. Lawrence's similarly named 1923 novel, Kangaroo, which explored the possibility...