Humanities and Social Sciences

History Program

Staff Profiles

Research interests: Australian history; nation and nationalism; gender, war and citizenship; femininity and masculinity; history of feminism; race, gender and imperialism; global and trans-national history.

Projects in Progress: An ARC funded study of the idea of the white man’s country in the trans-national framework of nineteenth century racial history, the development of the census and the global circulation of historical knowledge; historical ideas of manhood; biographical studies of Australian federal fathers: HB Higgins, Alfred Deakin, Edmund Barton and WM Hughes.

Selected Publications:

Books
Lake, Marilyn, The Limits of Hope Soldier Settlement in Victoria 1915-38, Oxford University Press, 1987.
Fox, Charles and Lake, Marilyn eds., Australians at Work: Commentaries and Sources, McPhee/Gribble/Penguin, 1990.
Grimshaw, Patricia, Lake, Marilyn, McGrath, Ann and Quartly, Marian, Creating a Nation, McPhee/Gribble/Penguin, 1994, (reprinted 1996, 2000).
Damousi, Joy and Lake, Marilyn eds., Gender and War: Australians at War in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Lake, Marilyn and Holmes, Katie eds., Freedom Bound 2: Documents on Women in Modern Australia, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1995.
Lake, Marilyn, Getting Equal: The History of Feminism in Australia, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1999.
Grimshaw, Patricia, Holmes, Katie and Lake, Marilyn eds., Women’s Rights and Human Rights: International Historical Perspectives, Palgrave, London, 2001.
Lake, Marilyn, FAITH: Faith Bandler Gentle Activist, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2002.
co-edited with Ann Curthoys, Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective, ANU Press, Sydney, 2006.

Book Chapters
‘The Power of Anzac’ in McKernan, M. and Browne, M. (eds), Australia: Two Centuries of War and Peace, Allen and Unwin, 1988, pp.194-222.
‘“A Revolution in the Family”: the Challenge and Contradiction of Maternal Citizenship’ in Koven, Seth and Michel, Sonya (eds), Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and Welfares States in Comparative Perspective, Routledge, New York, 1993, pp.378-95.
‘Between Old World “Barbarism” and “Stone Age Primitivism” : The Double Difference of the White Australian Feminist Subject’ in Grieve, Norma and Burns, Ailsa (eds), Australian Women Contemporary Feminist Thought, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1994, pp.80-91.
‘Labour History and the Constitution of Political Subjectivity’ in Irving, Terry (ed.), Challenges to Labour History University of New South Wales Press, 1994, pp.75-87.
‘Between Old Worlds and New: Feminist Citizenship, Nation and Race, the Destabilisation of Identity’ in Daley, Caroline and Nolan, Melanie (eds), Suffrage and Beyond International Feminist Perspectives, Auckland University Press/Pluto Press, 1994, pp.277-294.
‘“Stirring Tales”: Australian Feminism and National Identity 1900-1940’ in Stokes, Geoff (ed.), The Politics of Identity in Australia, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp.78-91.
‘Feminist Creating Citizens’ in Hudson, Wayne and Bolton, Geoffrey (eds), Creating Australia: Changing Australian History, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1997, pp.96-105.
‘Female Desires: The Meaning of World War 11’ in Scott, Joan (ed.), Feminism and History, Oxford Readings in Feminism, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996, pp.429-449.
'Frontier Feminism and the Marauding White Man’ in Midgeley, Clare (ed.), Gender and Imperialism, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1998, pp.123-136.
'The Inviolable Woman: Feminist Conceptions of Citizenship, 1900-1940’ in Landes, Joan (ed.), Feminism: The Public and the Private, Oxford Readings in Feminism, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998, pp.223-240.
‘Australian and New Zealand Feminism’ in Kramarae, Cheris and Spender, Dale (eds), Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women Global Women’s Issues and Knowledge, Routledge, New York, 2001.
‘From Self-Determination via Protection to Equality via Non-Discrimination: Defining Women’s Rights at the League of Nations and the United Nations’ in Grimshaw, Patricia, Holmes, Katie and Lake, Marilyn (eds), Women’s Rights and Human Rights: International Historical Perspectives, Palgrave, London, 2001, pp.254-271.
‘Political Communities of Women’ in Brookes, Barbara and Page, Dorothy (eds), Communities of Women Historical Perspectives, Otago University Press, Dunedin, 2002.
‘Woman, Black, Indigenous: Recognition Struggles in Dialogue’ in Hobson, Barbara (ed.), Recognition Struggles and Social Movements Contested Identities, Power and Agency, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (UK), 2003.
‘On Being a White Man, Australia, c.1901’ in Hsu Ming Teo and White, Richard (eds), Australian Cultural History, University of NSW Press, Sydney, 2003.
‘Translating Needs into Rights:The Discursive Imperative of the Australian White Man 1901-1930’ in Stefan Dudink, Karen Hagemann and John Tosh (eds), Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History, Manchester University Press, 2003.

Articles
‘Colonised and Colonising: the White Australian Feminist Subject’ Women’s History Review (UK) 2,3, 1993, pp.377-386.
‘Feminist History as National History: Writing the Political History of Women’ Australian Historical Studies 106, April 1996, pp.154-169.
‘Women and Nation in Australia: The Politics of Representation’ Rethinking Nationalism: Special Issue Australian Journal of Politics and History 43, 1997, pp.41-52.
‘Feminism and the Gendered Politics of Anti-Racism From Maternal Protectionism to Leftist Assimilationism’ Australian Historical Studies 110, April, 1998, pp.91-108.
‘Marriage as Bondage The Anomaly of the Citizen Wife’ Australian Historical Studies 112, April, 1999, pp.116-129.
‘Childbearers as Rights-bearers: feminist discourse on the rights of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal mothers in Australia, 1920-50’ Women’s History Review (UK) 8, 2, 1999, pp.347-363.
‘Negotiating Sexual Difference: 100 Years of Feminist Reform’ Alternative Law Journal, 24, 6, December 1999.
‘Citizenship as Non-Discrimination: Acceptance or Assimilationism? Political Logic and Emotional Investment in Campaigns for Aboriginal Rights in Australia, 1940 to 1970’ Gender and History Special Issue: Gender, Citizenships and Subjectivities (USA) 13, 3, November 2001, pp.566-592.