A Curthoys

Biographic Data

ID12653
NAMEA Curthoys
GIVEN NAMESA
FAMILY NAMECurthoys
SIGNATURECURTHOYS A
AFFILIATIONSAustralian National University
ORCID0000-0001-5353-0548
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS67
TOTAL CITATIONS100
AUTHOR COUNT67
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX7

  • Power and Dysfunction: The New South Wales Board for the Protection of Aborigines 1883–1940

    A CurthoysARTICLEAustralian Historical Studies2025

  • Frances Peters-Little (1958–2024)

    Open AccessA Curthoys, A Mcgrath et al.ARTICLEAboriginal History Journal2025References: 1

  • Coercive control, financial abuse, and reproductive coercion and abuse in a settler colony: Western Australia, 1860-1900

    Open AccessA CurthoysARTICLEWomen s History Review2025

    This essay explores the value of recently developed concepts such as coercive control, financial abuse, and reproductive coercion and abuse for histories of domestic and family violence. It does so by investigating the lives and circumstances of six women who petitioned for a judicial separation on the grounds of cruelty in the British colony of Western Australia between 1865 and 1891. The women and their husbands were all British or Irish immigr…

  • Historicising domestic abuse in Australia 1850-2020: How Useful Is New Language for Describing an Old Problem

    Zivojin Simic, A Curthoys et al.ARTICLEWomen s History Review2025

    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…

  • Author Meets Readers: Feminist Jurisography: Law, History, Writing

    Open AccessAlessio Genovese, A Curthoys et al.ARTICLEAustralian Feminist Law Journal2025

    The following is an edited version of an Author Meets Readers conversation held on 20 February 2025 at UNSW Sydney celebrating Ann Genovese’s book Feminist Jurisography: Law, History, Writing (Routledge, 2023). The event chaired by Mehera San Roque brought author Ann Genovese into dialogue with three readers, Ann Curthoys, Alecia Simmonds and Angela Kintominas

  • A partial view: The limits and value of the legal archive for historicising domestic violence

    Open AccessA Curthoys, Catherine Kevin et al.ARTICLEHistory Australia2024References: 5

    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…

  • On Looking Back at Who Are Our Enemies? Racism and the Australian Working Class

    Open AccessA CurthoysARTICLELabour History2024

  • Colonial Self-government

    Open AccessA Curthoys, Jessie MitchellCHAPTERCambridge Legal History of…2022

    Colonial self-government was a brief but significant phase in Australia’s history. This chapter explores how, why, and when various classes of settlers came to seek self-government and traces the shifts in British government approaches to colonial governance. When Britain eventually granted self-government to most Australian colonies in the 1850s and Western Australia in 1890, the six Australian colonies implemented it very differently. With some…

  • The Pinjarra Massacre in the Age of the Statue Wars

    A Curthoys, Shoko KonishiARTICLEJournal of Genocide Research2022Cited by: 1

    The Pinjarra Massacre of 1834 was a large-scale colonial attack on Aboriginal people in Western Australia. Led by Governor James Stirling, a party of British police, soldiers and settlers ambushed a group of Bindjareb Noongar, killing of at least 15 Bindjareb Noongar men by Stirling’s reckoning, and as many as 80 men, women, and children by other accounts. Though the event was widely recorded in the nineteenth-century, this massacre was effaced i…

  • Histories of a Radical Book: A roundtable conversation on empire, colonialism, and E.P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class

    A Burton, Stephanie Fortado et al.ARTICLEJournal of Colonialism and…2021

    Histories of a Radical BookA roundtable conversation on empire, colonialism, and E.P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class Antoinette Burton, Stephanie Fortado, Clare Anderson, Caroline Bressey, Ann Curthoys, Isabel Hofmeyr, and Utathya Chattopadhyaya CA: Antoinette, Stephanie: Histories of a Radical Book is an absolutely fascinating volume. Most historians have engaged with E.P. Thompson's work in one way or another, and yet beyond…

  • From Montserrat to Settler-Colonial Australia: The Intersecting Histories of Caribbean Slave-owning Families, Transported British Radicals, and Indigenous Peoples

    Open AccessA CurthoysARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2021

    When the British government abolished slavery in the Caribbean and compensated the slave-owners, some of the beneficiaries and/or their children and grandchildren went to Australia to make a new life and if possible a new fortune. This essay traces the history of one such family, the Shiells of Montserrat, alongside two other contemporaneous histories - that of Yorkshire radical and convict, John Burkinshaw, and his family, into which one of the …

  • Family Violence and Colonisation

    A CurthoysARTICLEAustralian Historical Studies2020Cited by: 2

    Any comprehensive history of domestic and family violence in Australia must include Aboriginal family violence. This is a sensitive and difficult intellectual task. While there are scarcely any histories of Aboriginal family violence in Australia, there are four decades of public reports and academic and activist publications addressing it in the present, usually offering explanations and recommendations for action. In this article I examine this…

  • Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia, by Samia Khatun

    Open AccessA CurthoysARTICLEThe English Historical Review2020

    This is a complex book, at once a history of South Asian travellers and settlers in Australia, and a meditation by the author, Samia Khatun, on how history is, and might be, written. It is at once personal, theoretical, experimental and empirical. Moving between cities in South Asia and Australia and following Indian Ocean sea lanes and Australian desert tracks, it is transnational, imperial and local. Though clearly written, Australianama (‘The …

  • George K. Behlmer. Risky Shores: Savagery and Colonialism in the Western Pacific

    Open AccessA CurthoysARTICLEThe American Historical Review2020

    Risky Shores: Savagery and Colonialism in the Western Pacific, George K. A question at the core of the study is how “white strangers and dark ‘savages’” understood these risks (xiii). The introduction makes it clear, however, that the book’s attention will be more on the strangers’ than Islanders’ agency and perspectives, though the latter will be included where “the evidence—written, spoken, or inferred—permits” (13). In large part, the book wil…

  • Taking Liberty: Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830–1890

    Open AccessA Curthoys, Jessie MitchellBOOKTaking Liberty2018

    At last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy. The legacy of seizing a continent and alternately destroying and governing its original people shaped how white Australians came to see themselves as independent citizens. It also shows how shifting wider imperial and colonial politics influenced the treatment of indigenous Australians, and how indigenous people began t…

  • Me Write Myself’: The Free Aboriginal Inhabitants of Van Diemen’s Land at Wybalenna

    A CurthoysARTICLEAustralian Historical Studies2018

    ‘Me Write Myself’: The Free Aboriginal Inhabitants of Van Diemen’s Land at Wybalenna." Australian Historical Studies, 49(2), pp. 269–270

  • Stuart Hall and Cultural Studies, circa 1983

    Open AccessA Curthoys, John DockerARTICLECultural Studies Review2017

    Stuart Hall sought to internationalise theoretical debates and to create Cultural Studies as interdisciplinary. We chart his theoretical journey through a detailed examination of a series of lectures delivered in 1983 and now published for the first time. In these lectures, he discusses theorists such as E.P. Thompson, Raymond Williams, Louis Althusser, Levi Strauss and Antonio Gramsci, and explores the relationship between ideas and social struc…

  • Republicanism and Responsible Government: The Shaping of Democracy in Australia and Canada

    A CurthoysARTICLEAustralian Historical Studies2016

  • Stuart Hall: Reflections, Memories, Appreciations

    Open AccessA Curthoys, John DockerARTICLECultural Studies Review2016

    Stuart Hall was many things: public intellectual, academic leader, writer, editor, teacher, political activist, family man and friend. We write here of the two aspects we knew personally, writer and friend. Like so many of us engaged in the early formation of cultural and media studies, we both read and were seriously influenced by his work. John discussed Stuart Hall's work extensively in his PhD thesis on Australian literature of the 1890s in i…

  • Indigenous Dispossession and Pastoral Employment in Western Australia during the Nineteenth Century: Implications for Understanding Colonial Forms of Genocide

    A CurthoysCHAPTERInvariably genocide2015

  • Australian History Beyond Australia: Humanitarianism, Internationalism, and the Problem of Race

    A CurthoysARTICLEHistory Australia2015Cited by: 1

    Additional informationNotes on contributorsAnn CurthoysAnn Curthoys was formerly Manning Clark Professor of History at the Australian National University and Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow at the University of Sydney. Now an honorary professor at the University of Sydney, Ann continues to write on questions of history, memory, and writing, and on Aboriginal-settler relations history in an imperial context. Her most recent book, c…

  • History from Down Under: E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class and Australia

    A CurthoysARTICLEHistorical Reflections/Réflexions…2015Cited by: 1

    E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class was influential in Australia as it was throughout the Anglophone world. The focus of interest changed over time, starting with the fate of those of The Making's radical protesters who were transported to the Australian colonies, and then focusing on questions of class formation and the relationship between agency and structure. The peak of influence was in the 1980s, especially in the risin…

  • The Cambridge History of Australia

    Open AccessP Veth, Shoko Konishi et al.BOOKCambridge History of Australia2013

    The Cambridge History of Australia offers a comprehensive view of Australian history from its pre-European origins to the present day. Over two volumes, this major work of reference tells the nation's social, political and cultural story. Volume 1 examines Australia's indigenous and colonial history through to the Federation of the colonies in 1901. Volume 2 opens with the birth of the twentieth century, tracing developments in the nation through…

  • Remembering the 1951 Referendum on the Banning of the Communist Party

    A Curthoys, J DamousiARTICLEAustralian Historical Studies2013

    On 22 September 1951, a nation-wide referendum asked Australians to vote Yes or No to the following question: ‘Do you approve of the proposed law for the alteration of the Constitution entitled “Co

  • Memory, History, and Ego-Histoire: Narrating and Re-enacting the Australian Freedom Ride

    A CurthoysARTICLEHistorical Reflections/Réflexions…2012

    This article explores the intersections between history, memoir, and collective memory. It re ects on my experience of writing, as both historian and former participant, about the 1965 Australian Freedom Ride, which protested racial discrimination against Aboriginal people. It also traces the ways in which memory of and discourse about that event has changed over time: how it was and is remembered and understood, and the di erent uses made of the…