Margaret Allen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3648965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Allen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Allen |
| SIGNATURE | ALLEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5675-4336 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Technologies of Identification in White Australia: Sher Mohamed's files
This paper explores the interactions of Sher Mohamed, an Indian man who lived in Western Australia from 1897 until at least 1937, with the administration of the White Australia policy. This study, stretching over many years, conveys the lived experience of a person of colour living under the White Australia policy, and charts his growing resistance to the policy and its identification and surveillance technologies and processes. A necessary corol…
British India, White Australia: Overseas Indians, intercolonial relations and the empire by Kama Maclean
Reviewed by: British India, White Australia: Overseas Indians, intercolonial relations and the empire by Kama Maclean Margaret Allen British India, White Australia: Overseas Indians, intercolonial relations and the empire By Kama Maclean. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2020. This volume sets out to write a history of relationships between India and Indians and Australia and Australians in the first half of the twentieth century, through the "framework of th…
Though an Englishman, he was a Nationalist: Border-Crossing and Friendship in Late Colonial India
This paper draws upon the work of Leela Gandhi and Priyamvada Gopal on cross-cultural friendship in colonial settings and argues the importance of friendship in enabling the opening up of the binary divide between coloniser and colonised. It considers this through a case study of the impact of the personal contact and long friendship between the missionary Herbert Popley (1878-1960) and the Indian Christian leader K.T. Paul (1876-1931) to the mov…
Introduction to "The Cosmo-politics of Friendship in Imperial Contact Zones 1870 - 1950," special issue of JCCH
Introduction to "The Cosmo-politics of Friendship in Imperial Contact Zones 1870 – 1950," special issue of JCCH Margaret Allen and Jane Haggis1 Leela Gandhi has posited "friendship' as the lost trope in anti-colonial thought,"2 exploring the associations and relationships of a number of anti-colonial metropolitan intellectual activists and radicals around the turn of the twentieth century. Such relationships could disrupt rigid binaries between c…
Controlling Transnational Asian Mobilities: A Comparison of Documentary Systems in Australia and South Africa, 1890s to 1940s
I am a British subject’: Indians in Australia claiming their rights, 1880–1940
In researching little-known aspects of Australian political history, this article explores the ways in which Indians living in Australia during the period of immigration restriction used their status as British subjects to argue for greater rights in relation to the colonial, state and Australian federal governments. Australian Indians were politically informed and active, sharing a common consciousness of their rights. Extending earlier work on …
Cosmopolitan Lives on the Cusp of Empire: Interfaith, Cross-Cultural and Transnational Networks, 1860-1950
This book looks back to the period 1860 to 1950 in order to grasp how alternative visions of amity and co-existence were forged between people of faith, both within and resistant to imperial contact zones. It argues that networks of faith and friendship played a vital role in forging new vocabularies of cosmopolitanism that presaged the post-imperial world of the 1950s. In focussing on the diverse cosmopolitanisms articulated within liberal trans…
Test article
A ‘Tigress’ in the Paradise of Dissent: Kooroona critiques the foundational colonial story
Kooroona: a Tale of South Australia, a novel published in Britain in 1871 under the pseudonym of Iota 1 , poses a challenge to the social imaginary of colonial South Australia as the 'Paradise of Dissent'. It contests the key features of the foundational story of the South Australian colony and casts a new and critical light upon the dissenters, who had hitherto been accorded an important role in that foundational narrative. Much of the novel's c…
Women's Activism: Global Perspectives From the 1890s to the Present
Women's Activism brings together twelve innovative contributions from feminist historians from around the world to look at how women have always found ways to challenge or fight inequalities and hierarchies as individuals, in international women's organizations, as political leaders, and in global forums such as the United Nations. The book is divided into three parts. Part one, brings together four essays about organized women's activism across …
Impeccable Timing: A Personal Reflection
A reflection on a white Australian woman’s academic career over 40 years against the background of growing opportunities in higher education and changing notions of women’s place
A History of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Adelaide: 1876-2012
Even though the BA was the first degree it was not until eight years later in 1887 that the Faculty of Arts was inaugurated. In the first 50 years of the Universitys existence, less than ten BA students graduated each year. At the start of the 21st century this figure had climbed to over 300 BA graduates per year but what is interesting is that by 2010 the number of BA graduates was equalled by the number of graduates from separate named degrees …
Shadow Letters and the ‘Karnana’ Letter: Indians Negotiate the White Australia Policy, 1901–21
The Immigration Restriction Act of 1901 established the White Australia policy. It was intended to establish Australia as a white nation and to exclude people described, as 'aboriginal natives of Asia, Africa and the Pacific'. There were however around 50,000 of these people, now deemed as undesirable, in the country. Many of these were sojourners, who would return to their home countries, generally China and India from time to time. This paper w…
That's the Modern Girl”: Missionary Women and Modernity in Kolkata, c. 1907 - c. 1940
In 1923, three young single western women—Margaret Read, Iris Wingate, and Eleanor Rivett—made an adventurous summer trip riding and trekking from Kalimpong in West Bengal, right up to Sikkim. Read and Wingate, both wearing riding breeches and with hair bobbed, were somewhat more adventurous, continuing their trip to Tibet. This was a holiday from their work in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), the great cosmopolitan city of the British Raj in India. …
Friends Alongside: Feminist Inter-Cultural Co-Operation in Kolkata in the Early Twentieth Century
Guest Editorial: Gender and Difference
Crossing Thresholds: Feminist Essays in Social History by Meera Kosambi
Crossing Thresholds: Feminist Essays in Social History. Meera Kosambi, 2007. New Delhi and Ranikhet: Permanent Black. This collection of essays explores what the author dubs ‘first ripple feminism
‘A fine type of Hindoo’ meets ‘the Australian type’: British Indians in Australia and diverse masculinities
In about 1881, a young Punjabi Sikh from a landowning family, Otim Singh, left his home in Moga in the Punjab and began a journey that would take him to Sumatra, where he would work for five years, supervising Indian workers on an English-owned tobacco plantation, and where he also served with the British Mounted Police. He returned home to the Punjab and purchased land, but shortly after went to Batavia (Jakarta) to visit his brother. Thence he …
Imperial Emotions: Affective Communites of Mission in British Protestant Women's Missionary Publications c1880-1920
Jane Haggis, Margaret Allen; Imperial Emotions: Affective Communites of Mission in British Protestant Women's Missionary Publications c1880–1920, Journal o
Making Spaces: Women Teachers and Students in Two Adelaide High Schools Around 1955
Jill Roe attended two girls’ schools in Adelaide between 1955 and 1958. This paper explores the different experiences she had at the two schools against the background of a discussion of the women who taught her and their struggles to improve their working conditions and to gain greater social equality.This article has been peer-reviewed
Exhibitions
Every Stitch Tells a Story. Migration Museum, Adelaide, December 2003–10 December 2004. Curated by Catherine Manning. Drugs: A Social History. The Justice and Police Museum, Sydney, 25 October 2003–10 October 2004, then travelling. Historic Houses Trust, in association with the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre. Curated by Inara Walden
She seems to have composed her own life: Thinking about Catherine Martin1
Homely stories and the ideological work of ‘Terra Nullius’
The domestic, sentimental novel had an enormous audience in the nineteenth century. While these works were widely read by both women and men at that time, they have only recently been studied by literary scholars. In Australia, such works have been largely ignored in literary and cultural histories, and are often depicted as trivial, feminine and lowbrow. However, elsewhere some strong claims have been made for the importance of these works. Writ…
Exhibitions
Western Australia: Land and People Gallery. Western Australian Museum, Perth. Museum of Tropical Queensland. Townsville, Queensland, permanent exhibitions. Entry adult $9, Family $24, Child $5, Concession $6.50
Jean Blackburn
Imperial Emotions: Affective Communites of Mission in British Protestant Women's Missionary Publications c1880-1920
Jane Haggis, Margaret Allen; Imperial Emotions: Affective Communites of Mission in British Protestant Women's Missionary Publications c1880–1920, Journal o
Shadow Letters and the ‘Karnana’ Letter: Indians Negotiate the White Australia Policy, 1901–21
The Immigration Restriction Act of 1901 established the White Australia policy. It was intended to establish Australia as a white nation and to exclude people described, as 'aboriginal natives of Asia, Africa and the Pacific'. There were however around 50,000 of these people, now deemed as undesirable, in the country. Many of these were sojourners, who would return to their home countries, generally China and India from time to time. This paper w…
She seems to have composed her own life: Thinking about Catherine Martin1
I am a British subject’: Indians in Australia claiming their rights, 1880–1940
In researching little-known aspects of Australian political history, this article explores the ways in which Indians living in Australia during the period of immigration restriction used their status as British subjects to argue for greater rights in relation to the colonial, state and Australian federal governments. Australian Indians were politically informed and active, sharing a common consciousness of their rights. Extending earlier work on …
Homely stories and the ideological work of ‘Terra Nullius’
The domestic, sentimental novel had an enormous audience in the nineteenth century. While these works were widely read by both women and men at that time, they have only recently been studied by literary scholars. In Australia, such works have been largely ignored in literary and cultural histories, and are often depicted as trivial, feminine and lowbrow. However, elsewhere some strong claims have been made for the importance of these works. Writ…
White Already to Harvest: South Australian Women Missionaries in India1
In 1882, the South Australian Baptist Missionary Society sent off its first missionaries to Faridpur in East Bengal. Miss Marie Gilbert and Miss Ellen Arnold were the first of a stream of missionary women who left the young South Australian colony to work in India. Scores of women from other Christian denominations and from other Australian colonies also went to India and indeed to other mission fields in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A…
The ‘Pipeline Fallacy’ and Gender Inequality in Higher Education Employment
Some writers reflecting on the continued low representation of women in management and non-traditional professions have posited a process of slow, long term change which will produce gender equality in the future as a result of recent changes of practice. This view (explicitly or implicitly) entails the notion of a ‘pipeline’ through which changes work their way through the system. This model is misleading. While equal employment opportunity init…
Using Literature in an Oral English Program
Part of my role as a member of a teaching team in the bilingual program at Barunga School (formerly Bamyili) has been to teach English in the early childhood section. These children come from homes where Kriol is the main language. In some cases a traditional Aboriginal language is used at times, mainly by older people.Children have a fair exposure to English via television and videos, and also from contact with people in Katherine. At this age, …
The domestic ideal and the mobilization of womanpower in world war II
That's the Modern Girl”: Missionary Women and Modernity in Kolkata, c. 1907 - c. 1940
In 1923, three young single western women—Margaret Read, Iris Wingate, and Eleanor Rivett—made an adventurous summer trip riding and trekking from Kalimpong in West Bengal, right up to Sikkim. Read and Wingate, both wearing riding breeches and with hair bobbed, were somewhat more adventurous, continuing their trip to Tibet. This was a holiday from their work in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), the great cosmopolitan city of the British Raj in India. …
Making Spaces: Women Teachers and Students in Two Adelaide High Schools Around 1955
Jill Roe attended two girls’ schools in Adelaide between 1955 and 1958. This paper explores the different experiences she had at the two schools against the background of a discussion of the women who taught her and their struggles to improve their working conditions and to gain greater social equality.This article has been peer-reviewed
Inaugural Australian women's studies association conference
Attitudes to Language in a Bilingual Program
Language is an important part of a child's total development as a person. Through language the child learns the behaviour patterns that are expected within his society, the society's religious beliefs, and how the society sees the organisation of the world around it.'Language is a powerful force of socialisation or the preparation of a young person for later life in a social group.' It has a vital function in 'accumulating and transmitting cultur…
"Imagination and History in Hawthorne's "Legends of the Province House
[AWTHORNE'S of the Province have usually ILA.been read as patriotic allegories pertaining to the politics of the preand post-Revolutionary War period. The stories have seldom been discussed as an organic unity,' though only when this unity is recognized can we perceive that Hawthorne has woven into the fabric of the tales some enigmatic questions about the complexities of history and art. All the Legends are set in the context of New England hist…
The Political and Social Criticism of Margaret Fuller
Research Article| October 01 1973 The Political and Social Criticism of Margaret Fuller Margaret V. Allen Margaret V. Allen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1973) 72 (4): 560–573. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-72-4-560 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Margaret V. Allen; The Political and Social Criticism of Margaret Fuller. Sout…
The Achievement of Margaret Fuller
Robert Frost and Sidney Cox: Forty Years of Friendship
The domestic ideal and the mobilization of womanpower in world war II
Using Literature in an Oral English Program
Part of my role as a member of a teaching team in the bilingual program at Barunga School (formerly Bamyili) has been to teach English in the early childhood section. These children come from homes where Kriol is the main language. In some cases a traditional Aboriginal language is used at times, mainly by older people.Children have a fair exposure to English via television and videos, and also from contact with people in Katherine. At this age, …
Attitudes to Language in a Bilingual Program
Language is an important part of a child's total development as a person. Through language the child learns the behaviour patterns that are expected within his society, the society's religious beliefs, and how the society sees the organisation of the world around it.'Language is a powerful force of socialisation or the preparation of a young person for later life in a social group.' It has a vital function in 'accumulating and transmitting cultur…
Feminist history in the mainstream — an American conference
Catherine Martin, Writer: Her Life and Ideas
Inaugural Australian women's studies association conference
Women in Asia conference, university of Melbourne, 1–3 October 1993
Historical Refractions, Studies in Western Australian History
The ‘Pipeline Fallacy’ and Gender Inequality in Higher Education Employment
Some writers reflecting on the continued low representation of women in management and non-traditional professions have posited a process of slow, long term change which will produce gender equality in the future as a result of recent changes of practice. This view (explicitly or implicitly) entails the notion of a ‘pipeline’ through which changes work their way through the system. This model is misleading. While equal employment opportunity init…
Matilda sturge: Renaissance Woman' 1
This article notes the virtual exclusion of women from accounts of the ‘Renaissance’ within late nineteenth-century British Quakerism. A focus upon a hitherto neglected figure, Matilda Sturge (1829-1903), author and Quaker minister, reveals her long-standing involvement in the aspects of Quakerism crucial to the Quaker Renaissance and as an active participant in the debates which preceded it. But Matilda Sturge also was active in the Home Mission…
Exhibition
Everyone's Business: Business Practice and Culture, 1949–1999. Curated by Gillian Ridsdale. Queensland Museum. 23 October 1999 ‐ 23 January 2000. Entry free. Australian Aboriginal Cultures Gallery. Curated by Philip Clarke and Phillip Jones. South Australian Museum. From March 2000. Entry free. Katta Djinoong: First Peoples of Western Australia. Western Australian Museum. From April 1999. Entry free. The Immigration Museum. Old Customs House, Mel…
Conference Reports
White Already to Harvest: South Australian Women Missionaries in India1
In 1882, the South Australian Baptist Missionary Society sent off its first missionaries to Faridpur in East Bengal. Miss Marie Gilbert and Miss Ellen Arnold were the first of a stream of missionary women who left the young South Australian colony to work in India. Scores of women from other Christian denominations and from other Australian colonies also went to India and indeed to other mission fields in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A…
Exhibitions
Western Australia: Land and People Gallery. Western Australian Museum, Perth. Museum of Tropical Queensland. Townsville, Queensland, permanent exhibitions. Entry adult $9, Family $24, Child $5, Concession $6.50
Jean Blackburn
Homely stories and the ideological work of ‘Terra Nullius’
The domestic, sentimental novel had an enormous audience in the nineteenth century. While these works were widely read by both women and men at that time, they have only recently been studied by literary scholars. In Australia, such works have been largely ignored in literary and cultural histories, and are often depicted as trivial, feminine and lowbrow. However, elsewhere some strong claims have been made for the importance of these works. Writ…
Exhibitions
Every Stitch Tells a Story. Migration Museum, Adelaide, December 2003–10 December 2004. Curated by Catherine Manning. Drugs: A Social History. The Justice and Police Museum, Sydney, 25 October 2003–10 October 2004, then travelling. Historic Houses Trust, in association with the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre. Curated by Inara Walden
She seems to have composed her own life: Thinking about Catherine Martin1
Making Spaces: Women Teachers and Students in Two Adelaide High Schools Around 1955
Jill Roe attended two girls’ schools in Adelaide between 1955 and 1958. This paper explores the different experiences she had at the two schools against the background of a discussion of the women who taught her and their struggles to improve their working conditions and to gain greater social equality.This article has been peer-reviewed
‘A fine type of Hindoo’ meets ‘the Australian type’: British Indians in Australia and diverse masculinities
In about 1881, a young Punjabi Sikh from a landowning family, Otim Singh, left his home in Moga in the Punjab and began a journey that would take him to Sumatra, where he would work for five years, supervising Indian workers on an English-owned tobacco plantation, and where he also served with the British Mounted Police. He returned home to the Punjab and purchased land, but shortly after went to Batavia (Jakarta) to visit his brother. Thence he …
Imperial Emotions: Affective Communites of Mission in British Protestant Women's Missionary Publications c1880-1920
Jane Haggis, Margaret Allen; Imperial Emotions: Affective Communites of Mission in British Protestant Women's Missionary Publications c1880–1920, Journal o
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