History Australia Issue 21.3

Issue 21.3 of History Australia has been published online and in print! This is a special issue on the theme of ‘Regulating Gender: Legal Histories of Australia and New Zealand’, edited by Jessica Lake and Clare Davidson. The special issue features the following contributions:

Tonia Chalk, ‘“A rifle lying across her arm”: the suspicious death of 13-year-old “half-caste” Cissy Brennan’

Caroline Ingram, ‘Death at Butterabby: the case of Belo and Mumbleby and Aboriginal women’s place in the nineteenth-century criminal justice system’

Elizabeth Fay Bowyer, ‘Exercising legal personhood: wives in contractual litigation over moveable property in nineteenth-century New Zealand’

Kathy Bowrey, ‘The threat posed by a woman inventor: law, labour and the subjugation of Louisa Lawson’

Alecia Simmonds, ‘Rings of power: a legal history of the engagement ring in early twentieth-century Australia’

Barbara Baird & Erica Millar, ‘When history won’t go away: abortion decriminalisation, residual criminalisation and continued exceptionalism’

Ann Curthoys, Catherine Kevin & Zora Simic, ‘A partial view: the limits and value of the legal archive for historicising domestic violence’

Desley Deacon’s review of Eureka Henrich and David Carment, An ‘Important and Necessary Institution’: A History of the Australian Historical Association (AHA 2023) is also included in this issue, alongside book reviews from Michelle Arrow, Phillip Deery, Hannah Viney and Nicole Davis among others.

The AHA reminds members that publications in History Australia are supported by Open Access agreements between the Council of Australian University Librarians and Taylor & Francis. Check the journal’s website to see if your institution is covered by these agreements.

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