Barbara Caine

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

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

Biography

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 a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and the British Royal Historical Society.

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

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".[5]

Bibliography

Books
  • Victorian Feminists, 1992, Oxford University Press[6][7]
  • Destined to be wives: the sisters of Beatrice Webb, 1996, Clarendon Press[8]
  • English Feminism 1780-1980, 1997, Oxford University Press[9]
  • Gendering European History: 1780-1920 (with Glenda Sluga), 2000, Leicester University Press[10]
  • Bombay to Bloomsbury: a Biography of the Strachey family, 2005, Oxford University Press
  • Biography and History, 2010, Palgrave Macmillan UK[11]

Edited Books
  • 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
  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. "Queen's Birthday honours: full list". Sydney Morning Herald. 9 June 2014
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Helena Michie (21 December 2006). Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal. Cambridge University Press. pp. 117–. ISBN 978-1-139-46296-9.
  9. Anthony Howe; Simon Morgan (2006). Rethinking Nineteenth-century Liberalism: Richard Cobden Bicentenary Essays. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. pp. 229–. ISBN 978-0-7546-5572-5.
  10. Jackson, Peter . "Book review: Gendering European History 1780—1920". University of Newcastle Australia
  11. David Dean (4 December 2014). History, Memory, Performance. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 83–. ISBN 978-1-137-39389-0.

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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