Zivojin Simic
Biographic Data
| ID | 1151810 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zivojin Simic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zivojin |
| FAMILY NAME | Simic |
| SIGNATURE | SIMIC Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2443-2030 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘We Marched in the Streets One Day, Wrote Submissions the Next’
The Whitlam government and International Women’s Year (IWY) coincided with the feminist ‘discovery’ of domestic violence and the start of the feminist refuge movement, beginning with Elsie, a refuge founded in March 1974. In June 1975, the federal government committed to funding refuges, and their support for women’s services has since been historicised as a major achievement. We revisit IWY from the perspective of feminists involved in establish…
We open our eyes despite the pain it causes’
We write this piece across February, March and April 2025, as the ceasefire – which was never fully in place – was completely wiped aside by Israel. Bombing resumed, with Gazan journalist Anas Al-Sharif reporting one day that: ‘The airstrikes that hit Gaza tonight were unlike anything witnessed since the beginning of the war.’ These ongoing horrors are recognised by almost every reputable source around the globe – and most significantly by Palest…
Shirley Hazzard
Seeing the signs
Coercive control is a course of conduct aimed at controlling and dominating another, most often perpetrated by men against women. It can include physical, sexual, emotional and / or psychological abuse, stalking, deprivation of resources, and technology-assisted abuse, among other tactics aimed at depriving victims of their autonomy. Evan Stark has been widely credited with bringing attention to coercive control, but he was hardly the first to id…
Historicising domestic abuse in Australia 1850-2020
In recent decades, closer attention to experiences of domestic and family violence has resulted in the naming and detailing of different forms of abuse that fall into the category of domestic and family violence. In the process of identifying these abuses, their points of intersection have also become clearer. This special forum asks, how do we reconcile contemporary epistemologies and their associated terms with a history of domestic violence? C…
A partial view
In a wider history of domestic violence in Australia from 1850 to the present, divorce and family law have emerged as key sites for tracing what options were available for women and children fleeing violence, and what obstacles and repercussions they faced in doing so. In this article, we consider what constitutes the ‘legal archive’ in relation to the legibility of domestic violence across three different time periods–the colonial period, with i…
Their Own Perceptions
At the end of the last century, Ann Curthoys outlined the history of ‘two distinct yet connected public and intellectual debates concerning the significance of descent, belonging and culture’ in Australia. The first revolved ‘around the cleavage between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples’, and especially the issue of how to grapple with the lingering effects of past colonialisms
Broken English
Streten Božić arrived in Australia in 1960 with a ‘European concept’ of the country, but his outlook was transformed by the experience of living with Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. In the 1970s, he began publishing as B. Wongar and until it was revealed otherwise in 1981, he was assumed to be Indigenous. While his reputation suffered, Wongar remained committed to elucidating the ongoing colonisation of Aboriginal people. This a…
From Battered Wives to Domestic Violence
The transnational influence of Chiswick Women’s Aid and their community house, considered the first feminist refuge, as well as that of its founder, Erin Pizzey, author of the 1974 international best-seller Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear, has been widely noted. Without overstating their significance, I pursue here a more thorough examination of their impact, in order to consider both the shared and specific features of feminist mobili…
We Need to Talk About How Feminists Talk About Rape
Tanya Serisier, with her first book, has produced an essential text for anyone interested in evaluating the effects of ‘speaking out’ about rape as a practice central to feminist anti-rape politics
Histories of Migrants and Refugees in Australia
This article canvasses recent scholarship on migrants and refugees in Australian history. It covers broadly three main fields of enquiry: White Australia, postwar immigration and refugees since the Vietnam War. We argue there is a new dynamism to the field while simultaneously making the case that migrant and refugee history has hitherto been largely quarantined from mainstream Australian historiography
Gay and lesbian history now
Each year I have the good fortune to begin teaching my undergraduate history of sexuality course either on the eve or in the immediate aftermath of the annual Sydney Mardi Gras. It’s guaranteed tha
Mateship
Bachelors of Misery and Proxy Brides
In the postwar period, demographers and politicians both recognised that marriage was a good indicator of migrant assimilation. Getting married indicated a commitment to making Australia home, and to the new domesticated version of the ‘Australian way of life’. Patterns of intermarriage were especially suggestive of the willingness of migrants to marry outside of their ethnic group, and of Australian society to accept migrants as marriage partner…
Women and power in the brash 1980s media
Review(s) of: Paper Giants: The magazine wars, by Janeen Faithful, Executive Producer, Two part mini-series by Southern Star Entertainment TV. Screened ABC 1, 2 and 9 June 2013
Film and Radio Reviews
A review of The Making of Modern Australia , a four part series produced by Essential Media and Entertainment and Screen Australia in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2010, 219 minutes.Website: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/makingaustralia
The Margins of Suburbia
The City’s Outback , by Gillian Cowlishaw (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2009, 272pp, $39.95pb). www.unswpress.com.au/isbn/9781921410871.htm
Fallen girls? Plumpton High and the ‘problem’ of teenage pregnancy
In 1994, an education program for pregnant teenagers and mothers was introduced at Plumpton High School in Sydney's western suburbs, an area associated with various social problems, including teenage pregnancy, youth unemployment and low secondary education retention rates. The initiative prompted widespread media coverage, with a particular focus on the role of the Plumpton High's Principal Glenn Sargeant as the ‘Patriarch’ of the school and in …
Marilyn French (1929-2009)
Marilyn French—writer, academic and, above all, feminist—died of heart failure in her Manhattan home on 2 May 2009. She was 79 years old, and best known for writing a novel that was published over
Door Bitches of Club Feminism
Feminist competency' is a nascent term that has been identified in three general critiques of contemporary feminism that emerged in the course of research for The Great Feminist Denial (2008), a book on feminist debates in Australia that I co-authored with Monica Dux. The first critique highlights the importance of feminist knowledge, typically generated through the academy, to feminist identification. The second posits a perceived lack of femini…
What are ya?’
The particular and related histories of the Western Sydney suburbs of Green Valley and Cabramatta provide evidence that the category ‘westie’ was transformed throughout the 1980s under the impact of migration and within the context of a discernable Australian nationalism. By adding oral history to census data and local media, it is also possible to understand how ‘westie’ was simultaneously a category of assimilation, exclusion and local and nati…
Butter not Bombs
The Union of Australian Women occupies a curious space in the histories of Australian feminism and communism. Formed in 1950, the UAW acknowledged debts to both communist and feminist politics. Anti- feminism and anti-communism flourished in the 1950s but, despite these pressures, the UAW maintained a commitment to appealing to their constituency of working women and mothers through the use of the discourse of peaceful motherhood. This discourse …
Mrs Street-Now There's a Subject
Histories of Migrants and Refugees in Australia
This article canvasses recent scholarship on migrants and refugees in Australian history. It covers broadly three main fields of enquiry: White Australia, postwar immigration and refugees since the Vietnam War. We argue there is a new dynamism to the field while simultaneously making the case that migrant and refugee history has hitherto been largely quarantined from mainstream Australian historiography
Their Own Perceptions
At the end of the last century, Ann Curthoys outlined the history of ‘two distinct yet connected public and intellectual debates concerning the significance of descent, belonging and culture’ in Australia. The first revolved ‘around the cleavage between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples’, and especially the issue of how to grapple with the lingering effects of past colonialisms
From Battered Wives to Domestic Violence
The transnational influence of Chiswick Women’s Aid and their community house, considered the first feminist refuge, as well as that of its founder, Erin Pizzey, author of the 1974 international best-seller Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear, has been widely noted. Without overstating their significance, I pursue here a more thorough examination of their impact, in order to consider both the shared and specific features of feminist mobili…
Bachelors of Misery and Proxy Brides
In the postwar period, demographers and politicians both recognised that marriage was a good indicator of migrant assimilation. Getting married indicated a commitment to making Australia home, and to the new domesticated version of the ‘Australian way of life’. Patterns of intermarriage were especially suggestive of the willingness of migrants to marry outside of their ethnic group, and of Australian society to accept migrants as marriage partner…
What are ya?’
The particular and related histories of the Western Sydney suburbs of Green Valley and Cabramatta provide evidence that the category ‘westie’ was transformed throughout the 1980s under the impact of migration and within the context of a discernable Australian nationalism. By adding oral history to census data and local media, it is also possible to understand how ‘westie’ was simultaneously a category of assimilation, exclusion and local and nati…
Broken English
Streten Božić arrived in Australia in 1960 with a ‘European concept’ of the country, but his outlook was transformed by the experience of living with Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. In the 1970s, he began publishing as B. Wongar and until it was revealed otherwise in 1981, he was assumed to be Indigenous. While his reputation suffered, Wongar remained committed to elucidating the ongoing colonisation of Aboriginal people. This a…
Women and power in the brash 1980s media
Review(s) of: Paper Giants: The magazine wars, by Janeen Faithful, Executive Producer, Two part mini-series by Southern Star Entertainment TV. Screened ABC 1, 2 and 9 June 2013
Mrs Street-Now There's a Subject
Mrs Street-Now There's a Subject
Butter not Bombs
The Union of Australian Women occupies a curious space in the histories of Australian feminism and communism. Formed in 1950, the UAW acknowledged debts to both communist and feminist politics. Anti- feminism and anti-communism flourished in the 1950s but, despite these pressures, the UAW maintained a commitment to appealing to their constituency of working women and mothers through the use of the discourse of peaceful motherhood. This discourse …
What are ya?’
The particular and related histories of the Western Sydney suburbs of Green Valley and Cabramatta provide evidence that the category ‘westie’ was transformed throughout the 1980s under the impact of migration and within the context of a discernable Australian nationalism. By adding oral history to census data and local media, it is also possible to understand how ‘westie’ was simultaneously a category of assimilation, exclusion and local and nati…
The Margins of Suburbia
The City’s Outback , by Gillian Cowlishaw (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2009, 272pp, $39.95pb). www.unswpress.com.au/isbn/9781921410871.htm
Fallen girls? Plumpton High and the ‘problem’ of teenage pregnancy
In 1994, an education program for pregnant teenagers and mothers was introduced at Plumpton High School in Sydney's western suburbs, an area associated with various social problems, including teenage pregnancy, youth unemployment and low secondary education retention rates. The initiative prompted widespread media coverage, with a particular focus on the role of the Plumpton High's Principal Glenn Sargeant as the ‘Patriarch’ of the school and in …
Marilyn French (1929-2009)
Marilyn French—writer, academic and, above all, feminist—died of heart failure in her Manhattan home on 2 May 2009. She was 79 years old, and best known for writing a novel that was published over
Door Bitches of Club Feminism
Feminist competency' is a nascent term that has been identified in three general critiques of contemporary feminism that emerged in the course of research for The Great Feminist Denial (2008), a book on feminist debates in Australia that I co-authored with Monica Dux. The first critique highlights the importance of feminist knowledge, typically generated through the academy, to feminist identification. The second posits a perceived lack of femini…
Film and Radio Reviews
A review of The Making of Modern Australia , a four part series produced by Essential Media and Entertainment and Screen Australia in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2010, 219 minutes.Website: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/makingaustralia
Women and power in the brash 1980s media
Review(s) of: Paper Giants: The magazine wars, by Janeen Faithful, Executive Producer, Two part mini-series by Southern Star Entertainment TV. Screened ABC 1, 2 and 9 June 2013
Bachelors of Misery and Proxy Brides
In the postwar period, demographers and politicians both recognised that marriage was a good indicator of migrant assimilation. Getting married indicated a commitment to making Australia home, and to the new domesticated version of the ‘Australian way of life’. Patterns of intermarriage were especially suggestive of the willingness of migrants to marry outside of their ethnic group, and of Australian society to accept migrants as marriage partner…
Mateship
Gay and lesbian history now
Each year I have the good fortune to begin teaching my undergraduate history of sexuality course either on the eve or in the immediate aftermath of the annual Sydney Mardi Gras. It’s guaranteed tha
Histories of Migrants and Refugees in Australia
This article canvasses recent scholarship on migrants and refugees in Australian history. It covers broadly three main fields of enquiry: White Australia, postwar immigration and refugees since the Vietnam War. We argue there is a new dynamism to the field while simultaneously making the case that migrant and refugee history has hitherto been largely quarantined from mainstream Australian historiography
From Battered Wives to Domestic Violence
The transnational influence of Chiswick Women’s Aid and their community house, considered the first feminist refuge, as well as that of its founder, Erin Pizzey, author of the 1974 international best-seller Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear, has been widely noted. Without overstating their significance, I pursue here a more thorough examination of their impact, in order to consider both the shared and specific features of feminist mobili…
We Need to Talk About How Feminists Talk About Rape
Tanya Serisier, with her first book, has produced an essential text for anyone interested in evaluating the effects of ‘speaking out’ about rape as a practice central to feminist anti-rape politics
Their Own Perceptions
At the end of the last century, Ann Curthoys outlined the history of ‘two distinct yet connected public and intellectual debates concerning the significance of descent, belonging and culture’ in Australia. The first revolved ‘around the cleavage between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples’, and especially the issue of how to grapple with the lingering effects of past colonialisms
Broken English
Streten Božić arrived in Australia in 1960 with a ‘European concept’ of the country, but his outlook was transformed by the experience of living with Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. In the 1970s, he began publishing as B. Wongar and until it was revealed otherwise in 1981, he was assumed to be Indigenous. While his reputation suffered, Wongar remained committed to elucidating the ongoing colonisation of Aboriginal people. This a…
A partial view
In a wider history of domestic violence in Australia from 1850 to the present, divorce and family law have emerged as key sites for tracing what options were available for women and children fleeing violence, and what obstacles and repercussions they faced in doing so. In this article, we consider what constitutes the ‘legal archive’ in relation to the legibility of domestic violence across three different time periods–the colonial period, with i…
We open our eyes despite the pain it causes’
We write this piece across February, March and April 2025, as the ceasefire – which was never fully in place – was completely wiped aside by Israel. Bombing resumed, with Gazan journalist Anas Al-Sharif reporting one day that: ‘The airstrikes that hit Gaza tonight were unlike anything witnessed since the beginning of the war.’ These ongoing horrors are recognised by almost every reputable source around the globe – and most significantly by Palest…
Shirley Hazzard
Seeing the signs
Coercive control is a course of conduct aimed at controlling and dominating another, most often perpetrated by men against women. It can include physical, sexual, emotional and / or psychological abuse, stalking, deprivation of resources, and technology-assisted abuse, among other tactics aimed at depriving victims of their autonomy. Evan Stark has been widely credited with bringing attention to coercive control, but he was hardly the first to id…
Historicising domestic abuse in Australia 1850-2020
In recent decades, closer attention to experiences of domestic and family violence has resulted in the naming and detailing of different forms of abuse that fall into the category of domestic and family violence. In the process of identifying these abuses, their points of intersection have also become clearer. This special forum asks, how do we reconcile contemporary epistemologies and their associated terms with a history of domestic violence? C…
‘We Marched in the Streets One Day, Wrote Submissions the Next’
The Whitlam government and International Women’s Year (IWY) coincided with the feminist ‘discovery’ of domestic violence and the start of the feminist refuge movement, beginning with Elsie, a refuge founded in March 1974. In June 1975, the federal government committed to funding refuges, and their support for women’s services has since been historicised as a major achievement. We revisit IWY from the perspective of feminists involved in establish…
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