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DR SHURLEE LESLEY SWAIN



Contact Details

Organization: Historical Studies
Position: Honorary (Senior Fellow)
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Work: 8344 5964
Fax: 8344 7894
Level: 06
Building: John Medley Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Social history Women's history, history of childhood, welfare history Australia, Canada, United Kingdom

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts Institution not known
Diploma in Social Studies Institution not known
Doctor of Philosophy Institution not known

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Re-inventing motherhood: women, breadwinning and childcare in Australia, 1880-1980 Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2002
How much is it worth? Legal discourses & everyday understandings of families, work & property Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/01/2003
The power of giving: Australian women philanthropists, 1880-2000 Chief Investigator NATIONAL FOUNDATION AUST WOMEN,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2004

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Judicial and couple approaches to contributions and property: The dominance and difficulties of a reciprocity model
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Journal of Family Law
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 123-142
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  • Negotiating poverty: women and charity in nineteenth-century Melbourne
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Women's History Review
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 99-112
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  • Writing the history of women and welfare
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Feminist Studies
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 52
    Page numbers: 43-7
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Infanticide, Savagery and Civilization: the Australian Experience
    Year: 2006
    Book: Killing Infants: Studies in the Worldwide Practice of Infanticide
    Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press(New York)
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Publications in 2005

Books

  • The Encyclopaedia of Melbourne
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Melbourne)
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Book Chapters

  • Historical Invisiblity of the Working Mother: australia 1880-1920
    Year: 2005
    Book: Double shift : Working Mothers and Social Change in Australia
    Publisher: Melbourne Publishing Group/Circa(Armadale)
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  • Whose Problem? Experts and the Working Mother in 1960s Melbourne
    Year: 2005
    Book: Go! Melbourne in the Sixties
    Publisher: Melbourne Publishing Group/Circa(Armadale)
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Journal Articles

  • Constructing the working mother: Australian perspectives, 1920-1970
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Hecate
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 18-30
    Publisher: Hecate(Brisbane)
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  • Do you Want Religion with That? Welfare History in a SecularAge
    Year: 2005
    Journal: History Australia
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 78.1-78.8
    Publisher: Australian Historical Society
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  • Maids and Mothers: Domestic Servants and Illegitimacy in19th-Century Australia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: History of the Family
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 461-472
    Publisher: Pergamon
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  • Toward a Social Geography of Baby Farming
    Year: 2005
    Journal: History of the Family
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 151-159
    Publisher: Pergamon
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Major Reference Works

  • Companion to Women's Historical Writing:'Dominion Women Writers: Ambivalent Identities'
    Year: 2005
    Reference Work Title: Companion to Women's Historical Writing
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan(New York)
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  • Preface:The Encyclopaedia of Melbourne
    Year: 2005
    Reference Work Title: Preface
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Ignorance is not Innocence: Sex Education in Australia, 1890-1939
    Year: 2004
    Book: Sexual Pedagogies: Sex Education in Britain, Australia and America, 1879-2000
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan(New York)
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  • Reflections and Refractions of Empire: Child Rescue Discourse in the British World
    Year: 2004
    Book: Exploring the British World: Identity-Cultural Productions-Institutions
    Publisher: RMIT Publishing(Melbourne)
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  • Welfare
    Year: 2004
    Book: Carlton: A History
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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Journal Articles

  • In whose interest? Voluntarism and Child Care, 1880 - 1980
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Journal of Early Childhood
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 24-32
    Publisher: Australian Early Childhood Association(Watson)
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Publications in 2003

Books

  • Equal Subjects, Unequal Rights: Indigenous Peoples in British Settler Colonies, 1830-1910
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Manchester University Press(Manchester)
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Book Chapters

  • 'Numerous enough to swamp the votes of honest whites': The Indigenours Franchise in Canada
    Year: 2003
    Book: Selective Democracy: Race, Gender and the Australian Vote
    Publisher: Melbourne Publishing Group/Circa(Armadale)
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Journal Articles

  • Deserted and Destitute: Motherhood, Wife Desertion and Colonial Welfare, by Christina Twomey
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Lilith
    Volume: 12
    Page numbers: 151-152
    Publisher: University of Melbourne, Department of History(Melbourne)
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  • Women in Conversation: A Wartime Social Survey in Melbourne, Australia 1941-43
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Women's History Review
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 527-545
    Publisher: Triangle Journals(Oxford)
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Publications in 2002

Books

  • Confronting Cruelty
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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Book Chapters

  • But the children... Indigenous child removal policies compared
    Year: 2002
    Book: Writing colonial histories: Comparative perspectives
    Publisher: RMIT Publishing(Melbourne)
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Journal Articles

  • Derivative and Indigenous in the history and historiography of child welfare in Australia: Part two
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Children Australia
    Volume: 27
    Page numbers: 5-9
    Publisher: Children Australia(Dandenong)
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  • In these days of female evangelists and hallelujah lasses: Women preachers and the redefinition of gender roles in the churches in late nineteenth-century Australia
    Year: 2002
    Journal: The Journal of Religious History
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 65-77
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Child rescue: The emigration of an idea
    Year: 2001
    Book: Child Welfare and Social Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: International Perspectives
    Publisher: Liverpool University Press(Liverpool)
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  • Women and philanthropy in colonial and post-colonial Australia
    Year: 2001
    Book: Women, philanthropy and civil society
    Publisher: Indiana University Press(Bloomington)
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Journal Articles

  • Derivative and indigenous in the history and historiography of child welfare in Australia: Part One
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Children Australia
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 4-9
    Publisher: Children Australia(Dandenong)
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  • Philanthropy and nation building
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Third Sector Review
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 47-58
    Publisher: University of Wollongong
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