Lilith 15: 2006
Does Feminist History still Matter?
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 movement was already in decline and fragmenting under the pressure of internal political differences, feminist history as a discipline was in its ascendancy. White Australian feminist scholars were at the forefront of raging debates over the usefulness of gender as an analytical tool, the sexual division of labour, and were slowly becoming aware of the ways in which white women benefited from the dispossession and genocide of Indigenous women and men, upon which the fiction of nationhood rested.
It goes without saying that in 2006...
