Mary Spongberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 521514 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Spongberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Spongberg |
| SIGNATURE | SPONGBERG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9066-3179 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Female Biography and the Digital Turn
The digital revolution gives new meaning to the concept of ‘shelf life’. It offers the promise of infusing surviving accounts of the ever-fragile female past with both a material and an electronic robustness. Among the many dusty volumes that have benefited dramatically from digital capabilities, few are more emblematic of the power of contemporary technology to advance feminist historical recovery than the six volumes of Mary Hays’s Female Biogr…
Twenty Years On
History, fiction, and anachronism
Northanger Abbey is conventionally described as a novel of the 1790s. This dating has seen the novel read as parody and aligned with the numerous satirical essays deriding ‘terror fiction’, that proliferated in the last years of the eighteenth century. B.C. Southam and more recently Jocelyn Harris, have argued that Austen rewrote substantial parts of the novel in 1816. In this essay I explore the idea that Northanger Abbey might be a novel out of…
One Hundred Years From Now
Introduction
La Reine malheureuse
This article examines the representation of ‘Stuart’ queens, particularly Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, in the writings of Victorian royal biographers, Agnes and Elizabeth Strickland, to consider how their depiction of women associated with the Stuarts might alter our understanding of the Stuart heritage in Victorian Britain. The article will demonstrate that the Stricklands' sympathetic representation of Henrietta Maria can be read, not me…
Feminist Publishing in a Cold Climate
This article explores the implications for feminist research and publishing in Australia in the new 'ERA' of research excellence. Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) is an initiative of the Australian Federal government to assess research quality within Australia's higher education institutions using a combination of indicators and expert review by committees comprising experienced, internationally recognised experts (Australian Research C…
The Rights of Woman Now
The 27th April 2009 marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of Mary Wollstonecraft, author of the groundbreaking A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and mother of the modern feminist movement
Australian Women’s History in Australian Feminist Periodicals 1971–1988
This article traces the history of feminist periodical publishing in this country between 1970 and 1988 and its role in the development of Australian women’s history. It shows that a distinctly Australian feminist historiography developed within the pages of journals such as Refractory Girl, Hecate, and Australian Feminist Studies. While most studies of the evolution of Australian women’s history since the 1970s signal the importance of such jour…
The Child
William Godwin'smemoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Womanand the Gender of Romantic Biography
Some years after the publication of her ground-breaking article “Women and Philosophy” (1977), in which she describes women's relationship to philosophical inquiry in terms of a “Heloise complex
Andrea Dworkin, 1946-2005
Companion to Women’s Historical Writing
This A-Z reference work provides the first comprehensive reference guide to the wide range of historical writing with which women have been involved, particularly since the Renaissance. The Companion
Feminist Histories
Over the last days of June 2005 Adelaide hosted the ‘Generations of Feminisms’ conference to mark an important period of transition for Australian Feminist Studies, namely the retirement of its fou
Books
Keeper of the Faith: A Biography of Jim Cairns. By Paul Strangle Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002. Pp. xv + 464. $49.95 cloth. New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History. By Clive Moore. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. Pp. 274. US$50 paper. The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty. By Mark Peel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 206. $37.95 paper. The Italians in Australia. By Gianfranco Cresciani. Cam…
Writing Women’s History since the Renaissance
The complaint of Catherine Morland in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, that history has 'hardly any women at all' is not an uncommon one. Yet there is evidence to suggest that women have engaged in historical writing since ancient times. This study traces the history of women's historical writing, reclaiming the lives of individual women historians, recovering women's historical writings from the past and focusing on how gender has shaped the genr…
Australian Women's History
Living Feminism: the impact of the Women's Liberation Movement on three generations of Australian women CHILLA BULBECK, 1997 Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. xxii + 279 pp., A$29.95, ISBN 9 780521 465960
Queer theory, politics and HIV/Aids
Books
The Meagre Harvest: The Australian Women's Movement, 1950s‐1990s. By Gisela Kaplan. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1996. Pp. xiii + 242. $29.95 paper. The Christesen Romance. By Judith Armstrong. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996. $29.95. Pp. 225 paper. The Politics of Australian Child Care: From Philanthropy to Feminism. By Deborah Brennan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994. Pp. xii + 242. $29.95 paper. Fair Enough: Egalitarianism in…
Mother knows best? Bridging feminism's generation gap
Are small penises necessary for civilisation? The male body and the body politic
1997). Are small penises necessary for civilisation? The male body and the body politic. Australian Feminist Studies: Vol. 12, No. 25, pp. 19-28
Queering new ground
Annamarie Jagose, Queer Theory (University of Melbourne Press) Melbourne, 1996. Catharine Lumby, Bad Girls: The Media, Sex and Feminism in the 90s (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1997. Jill Julius Matthews, Sex in Public: Australian Sexual Cultures (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1997
Going Down
The real facts of life
That Dangerous and Persuasive Women
If she's so great, how come so many pigs dig her? germaine greer and the malestream press
The quotation in the title has been attributed as Robyn Morgan's response to Germaine Greer's television debate with Norman Mailer. This paper will explore Germaine Greer's turbulent relationship with the mainstream press both in Australia and abroad and will attempt to determine whether the flamboyant Dr Greer added “a much needed patina of glamour” to the movement or merely used feminism as yet another way to cash in on the counter-culture. It …
Going Down
Feminist Publishing in a Cold Climate
This article explores the implications for feminist research and publishing in Australia in the new 'ERA' of research excellence. Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) is an initiative of the Australian Federal government to assess research quality within Australia's higher education institutions using a combination of indicators and expert review by committees comprising experienced, internationally recognised experts (Australian Research C…
The Child
Are small penises necessary for civilisation? The male body and the body politic
1997). Are small penises necessary for civilisation? The male body and the body politic. Australian Feminist Studies: Vol. 12, No. 25, pp. 19-28
Twenty Years On
Mother knows best? Bridging feminism's generation gap
La Reine malheureuse
This article examines the representation of ‘Stuart’ queens, particularly Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, in the writings of Victorian royal biographers, Agnes and Elizabeth Strickland, to consider how their depiction of women associated with the Stuarts might alter our understanding of the Stuart heritage in Victorian Britain. The article will demonstrate that the Stricklands' sympathetic representation of Henrietta Maria can be read, not me…
Australian Women’s History in Australian Feminist Periodicals 1971–1988
This article traces the history of feminist periodical publishing in this country between 1970 and 1988 and its role in the development of Australian women’s history. It shows that a distinctly Australian feminist historiography developed within the pages of journals such as Refractory Girl, Hecate, and Australian Feminist Studies. While most studies of the evolution of Australian women’s history since the 1970s signal the importance of such jour…
Feminist Histories
Over the last days of June 2005 Adelaide hosted the ‘Generations of Feminisms’ conference to mark an important period of transition for Australian Feminist Studies, namely the retirement of its fou
If she's so great, how come so many pigs dig her? germaine greer and the malestream press
The quotation in the title has been attributed as Robyn Morgan's response to Germaine Greer's television debate with Norman Mailer. This paper will explore Germaine Greer's turbulent relationship with the mainstream press both in Australia and abroad and will attempt to determine whether the flamboyant Dr Greer added “a much needed patina of glamour” to the movement or merely used feminism as yet another way to cash in on the counter-culture. It …
That Dangerous and Persuasive Women
Going Down
The real facts of life
Books
The Meagre Harvest: The Australian Women's Movement, 1950s‐1990s. By Gisela Kaplan. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1996. Pp. xiii + 242. $29.95 paper. The Christesen Romance. By Judith Armstrong. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996. $29.95. Pp. 225 paper. The Politics of Australian Child Care: From Philanthropy to Feminism. By Deborah Brennan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994. Pp. xii + 242. $29.95 paper. Fair Enough: Egalitarianism in…
Mother knows best? Bridging feminism's generation gap
Are small penises necessary for civilisation? The male body and the body politic
1997). Are small penises necessary for civilisation? The male body and the body politic. Australian Feminist Studies: Vol. 12, No. 25, pp. 19-28
Queering new ground
Annamarie Jagose, Queer Theory (University of Melbourne Press) Melbourne, 1996. Catharine Lumby, Bad Girls: The Media, Sex and Feminism in the 90s (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1997. Jill Julius Matthews, Sex in Public: Australian Sexual Cultures (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1997
Queer theory, politics and HIV/Aids
Australian Women's History
Living Feminism: the impact of the Women's Liberation Movement on three generations of Australian women CHILLA BULBECK, 1997 Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. xxii + 279 pp., A$29.95, ISBN 9 780521 465960
Writing Women’s History since the Renaissance
The complaint of Catherine Morland in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, that history has 'hardly any women at all' is not an uncommon one. Yet there is evidence to suggest that women have engaged in historical writing since ancient times. This study traces the history of women's historical writing, reclaiming the lives of individual women historians, recovering women's historical writings from the past and focusing on how gender has shaped the genr…
Books
Keeper of the Faith: A Biography of Jim Cairns. By Paul Strangle Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002. Pp. xv + 464. $49.95 cloth. New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History. By Clive Moore. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. Pp. 274. US$50 paper. The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty. By Mark Peel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 206. $37.95 paper. The Italians in Australia. By Gianfranco Cresciani. Cam…
Companion to Women’s Historical Writing
This A-Z reference work provides the first comprehensive reference guide to the wide range of historical writing with which women have been involved, particularly since the Renaissance. The Companion
Feminist Histories
Over the last days of June 2005 Adelaide hosted the ‘Generations of Feminisms’ conference to mark an important period of transition for Australian Feminist Studies, namely the retirement of its fou
Andrea Dworkin, 1946-2005
Australian Women’s History in Australian Feminist Periodicals 1971–1988
This article traces the history of feminist periodical publishing in this country between 1970 and 1988 and its role in the development of Australian women’s history. It shows that a distinctly Australian feminist historiography developed within the pages of journals such as Refractory Girl, Hecate, and Australian Feminist Studies. While most studies of the evolution of Australian women’s history since the 1970s signal the importance of such jour…
The Child
William Godwin'smemoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Womanand the Gender of Romantic Biography
Some years after the publication of her ground-breaking article “Women and Philosophy” (1977), in which she describes women's relationship to philosophical inquiry in terms of a “Heloise complex
The Rights of Woman Now
The 27th April 2009 marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of Mary Wollstonecraft, author of the groundbreaking A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and mother of the modern feminist movement
Feminist Publishing in a Cold Climate
This article explores the implications for feminist research and publishing in Australia in the new 'ERA' of research excellence. Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) is an initiative of the Australian Federal government to assess research quality within Australia's higher education institutions using a combination of indicators and expert review by committees comprising experienced, internationally recognised experts (Australian Research C…
One Hundred Years From Now
Introduction
La Reine malheureuse
This article examines the representation of ‘Stuart’ queens, particularly Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, in the writings of Victorian royal biographers, Agnes and Elizabeth Strickland, to consider how their depiction of women associated with the Stuarts might alter our understanding of the Stuart heritage in Victorian Britain. The article will demonstrate that the Stricklands' sympathetic representation of Henrietta Maria can be read, not me…
History, fiction, and anachronism
Northanger Abbey is conventionally described as a novel of the 1790s. This dating has seen the novel read as parody and aligned with the numerous satirical essays deriding ‘terror fiction’, that proliferated in the last years of the eighteenth century. B.C. Southam and more recently Jocelyn Harris, have argued that Austen rewrote substantial parts of the novel in 1816. In this essay I explore the idea that Northanger Abbey might be a novel out of…
Female Biography and the Digital Turn
The digital revolution gives new meaning to the concept of ‘shelf life’. It offers the promise of infusing surviving accounts of the ever-fragile female past with both a material and an electronic robustness. Among the many dusty volumes that have benefited dramatically from digital capabilities, few are more emblematic of the power of contemporary technology to advance feminist historical recovery than the six volumes of Mary Hays’s Female Biogr…
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · History (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Feminism (7 works) · Art history (6 works) · Australian History and Society (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)