Marilyn Lake
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 86625 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Marilyn Lake |
| PRENOMES | Marilyn |
| SOBRENOME | Lake |
| ASSINATURA | LAKE M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9288-5808 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 93 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 275 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 90 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1928 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The Feminist Challenge to the Writing of Australian History
One of the most consequential publications funded by International Women’s Year (IWY) was Women in Australia: An Annotated Guide to Records, volumes 1 and 2, edited for the National Research Progra...
Travelling to Tomorrow
Humanitarianism, Empire and Transnationalism, 1760–1995
Humanitarianism, Empire and Transnationalism, 1760–1995: Selective Humanity in the Anglophone World." Australian Historical Studies, 54(2), pp. 370–371
Freedom Bound II
Over generations, Australian women have envisaged a world of freedom. This new collection of documents - letters, songs, poetry, diary extracts - charts the visions that inspired women and the obstacles that confronted them.Exploring twentieth-century Australia, Freedom Bound II shows how intertwined were women's public and personal lives, and how bound by custom, ties, affections and duties. The different meanings of freedom have been shaped by …
The “White Man,” Race, and Imperial War during the Long Nineteenth Century
This chapter explores the transnational formation of the gendered and racialized figure of the “white man” in the constitutive relations of colonial conquest and imperial rule across the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. The self-styled bearer of a “civilizing mission” to indigenous peoples, the white man became a perpetrator of violence and atrocity as imperial rule and colonial settlement encountered continuing resistance and guerrilla…
Response by Joy Damousi and Marilyn Lake
[Extract] It is indeed an honour that 25 years after the publication of Gender and War its enduring intellectual significance and political relevance still define the volume’s reception.1 A gendered critique of war – in the past and present – remains as vital as ever, it seems, as the wars of the twenty-first century and their aftermaths loom large in our troubled global world. We continue to see the nexus between masculinities and war writ large…
The Golden Country
The Golden Country: Australia’s Changing Identity." Australian Historical Studies, 51(2), pp. 243–244
T homas E. S mith . Emancipation without Equality
Thomas E. Smith’s Emancipation without Equality begins with Henry Sylvester Williams’s role in organizing the first Pan-African Conference in London in 1900—an event at which W. E. B. Du Bois, in his address “To the Nations of the World,” famously prophesied that the problem of the twentieth century would be “the problem of the global color line”—and it concludes in 1911 at the Universal Races Congress, also in London, organized by ethicists, the…
Geneva (ILO) Conventions
In a perceptive review of Charles Pearson’s remarkable forecast of the rise of China as a global power, in National Life and Character, penned in 1893, a time of unchallenged European ascendancy, the London Athenaeum noted the significance of Pearson’s “Australian point of view”: “The forecast will take many by surprise, because the view it presents is not only not fashionable, but is fundamentally different from that to which we have been accust…
Australian frontier feminism and the marauding white man
This chapter explores the ways in which the outlook of feminism in Australia was crucially shaped by the historical context of the frontier. It suggests that the frontier, as a conceptual and geographical space, acquired its meaning within an imperial as well as national context. The chapter argues the importance of gender relations and the family to the imperial project in Australia and conversely the centrality of colonialism to gender politics…
Just Relations
In the last 25 years, the work of Mary Montgomerie Bennett in support of the rights of Aboriginal peoples in Australia has become increasingly well known to historians as a result of the research o
Drawing the Global Colour Line
Introduction Part I. Modern Mobilities: 1. The coming man: Chinese migration to the Goldfields Part II. Discursive Frameworks: 2. James Bryce's America and the negro problem 3. Charles Pearson's prophecy: 'The day will come' 4. Theodore Roosevelt: re-asserting racial vigour 5. Imperial brotherhood or white: Gandhi in South Africa Part III. Transnational Solidarities: 6. White Australia points the way 7. Defending the Pacific slope 8. White ties a…
Revolution for the hell of it
In a synopsis sent to her publisher outlining her plans for a 'sensational' book, Germaine Greer wrote:If Eldridge Cleaver can write a book about the frozen soul of the negro, as part of the progress towards a correct statement of the coloured man's problem, a woman must eventually take steps towards delineating the female condition as she finds it scored upon her sensibility. I know myself to be an anomaly, a lucky survival, but men, so is Cleav…
Death of a nation’
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMarilyn LakeMarilyn Lake served two terms as President of the Australian Historical Association between 2010–2014. She is Professor in History and Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her books include The Limits of Hope: Soldier Settlement in Victoria 1915–38, (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1987), Getting Equal: The History of Feminism in Australia (St Le…
The Australian Dream of an Island Empire
The Commonwealth of Australia was founded in dreams of a Pacific empire. One of the first acts of the new nation in 1901 was to request the transfer of British New Guinea to Australian control. Aware of their poor reputation with regard to the treatment of Aborigines, Australian political leaders determined to redeem their reputation in the new colony. At the same time, however, they wanted to encourage white settlement and overcome Papuan resist…
“The Day Will Come”
From the President
From the President
Challenging the ‘Slave-Driving Employers’
In 1896 the colony of Victoria introduced the world's first legal minimum wage that also extended to adult men. It was much discussed around the world by commentators who saw its significance in terms of its radical break with the past. Traditionally conceptualised as an outcome of a domestic anti-sweating movement that focused on the exploitation of women and children in the clothing industry, I suggest that the radical innovation of the minimum…
Gyanendra Pandey. A History of Prejudice
This is a terrific book. I kept thinking about its arguments long after I finished reading it. Their continuing resonance is all the more interesting to me as I had initially resisted the idea of a study that located African Americans and the Dalits of India in the same analytical frame, because such a conceptualization seemed to fly in the face of historical specificity and accepted narratives of imperialism and racism. But as Gyanendra Pandey n…
British world or new world
This paper suggests that in discussing the formation of national identity in the decades prior to the First World War, we should move beyond the analytic binary of ‘Australian radical nationalism’ on the one hand and ‘British race patriotism’ on the other. It is suggested, furthermore, that the recent promotion of the idea of ‘British race patriotism’ as the basis of Australian national identity misses the importance of a transnational Anglo-Saxo…
From the President
From the President
This great America’
In 1914, before the outbreak of the World War One, H. B. Higgins travelled at the invitation of ‘industrial counsellor’ Robert Valentine to the United States, where he found an intellectual community of a kind that no political cause or group of people offered at home. There he joined a network of public-spirited experts who moved easily between universities, business, labour reform groups and journalism. Higgins' intellectual exchanges with juri…
The Chinese Empire Encounters the British Empire and Its “Colonial Dependencies
In 1887 Qing Imperial Commissioners General Wong Yung Ho and U Tsing visited Melbourne as part of an investigative mission to enquire into the treatment of Chinese imperial subjects in Southeast Asia and the Australian colonies. In this article I suggest that the political ramifications of their visit should be understood in the context of the larger imperial and national contestations occurring in the colony of Victoria in the 1880s. White colon…
Drawing the Global Colour Line
Introduction Part I. Modern Mobilities: 1. The coming man: Chinese migration to the Goldfields Part II. Discursive Frameworks: 2. James Bryce's America and the negro problem 3. Charles Pearson's prophecy: 'The day will come' 4. Theodore Roosevelt: re-asserting racial vigour 5. Imperial brotherhood or white: Gandhi in South Africa Part III. Transnational Solidarities: 6. White Australia points the way 7. Defending the Pacific slope 8. White ties a…
Connected Worlds
This volume brings together historians of imperialism and race, travel and modernity, Islam and India, the Pacific and the Atlantic to show how a 'transnational' approach to history offers fresh insights into the past. Transnational history is a form of scholarship that has been revolutionising our understanding of history in the last decade. With a focus on interconnectedness
Mission Impossible
White man's country
Understandings and explanations of historical processes have been constrained and distorted by nationalist frameworks of analysis. In this article I suggest that the founding idea of Australia as a ‘white man's country’ can only be fully understood in the context of the trans‐national circulation of knowledge in the late nineteenth century, especially historical knowledge. The chief authors of the White Australia project—Alfred Deakin, H.B. Higgi…
Female desires
(1990). Female desires: The meaning of World War II. Australian Historical Studies: Vol. 24, No. 95, pp. 267-284
Personality, individuality, nationality
1994). Personality, individuality, nationality: Feminist conceptions of citizenship 1902–1940. Australian Feminist Studies: Vol. 9, Women and citizenship, pp. 25-38
The White Man under Siege
The White Man under Siege: New Histories of Race in the Nineteenth Century and the Advent of White Australia Get access Marilyn Lake Marilyn Lake Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 58, Issue 1, AUTUMN 2004, Pages 41–62, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/58.1.41 Published: 01 October 2004
Women, gender and history
Feminism and the gendered politics of antiracism, Australia 1927–1957
Feminists’ campaigns for Aboriginal rights in Australia between 1927 and 1957 were complicated by their conflicting loyalties to empire, nation, sex, race and their own political agendas. These agendas were in turn shaped by the conceptual frameworks provided by the League of Nations and the United Nations: During the 1920s and 1930s, the convergence of maternalist feminism and imperial protectionism produced a political focus on the specificity …
Feminist history as national history
Writing feminist history as national history requires that we analyse women's political relationship to the nation state and their condition as citizens. Arguing that postsuffrage feminists sought to participate in political life as maternal citizens, I suggest further that we need a new history of Australian women's political thought, one that takes women's ideas about the vote and their changing conception of political power seriously
The Inviolable Woman
The Independence of Women and the Brotherhood of Man
In the writing of labour history, women, for so long an absence, have more recently emerged as a problematic presence. Traditionally, labour history has been a story of conflict between men, of the struggle of organised working men against capitalist exploitation and oppression. Its theoretical underpinnings are to be found in Marxism, an analysis that constructs a world in which a violent class struggle between competing capitalist men and prope…
Challenging the ‘Slave-Driving Employers’
In 1896 the colony of Victoria introduced the world's first legal minimum wage that also extended to adult men. It was much discussed around the world by commentators who saw its significance in terms of its radical break with the past. Traditionally conceptualised as an outcome of a domestic anti-sweating movement that focused on the exploitation of women and children in the clothing industry, I suggest that the radical innovation of the minimum…
The Gendered and Racialised Self who Claimed the Right to Self-Government
The Gendered and Racialised Self who Claimed the Right to Self-Government Marilyn Lake Introduction It was no accident that white men had a monopoly over the exercise of responsible and self-government in the Australian colonies in the nineteenth century. The self that claimed the right to self-government in British colonies of settlement was gendered and racialised in conception. As Goldwin Smith, the politician and political theorist, explained…
The brightness of eyes and quiet assurance which seem to say American’
In 1885 the young Alfred Deakin made a pilgrimage to the grave of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Concord, and undertook a tour of the battlefields of the American War of Independence in and around Boston. Three years later, Deakin began a long and passionate friendship with Harvard philosopher Josiah Royce, who would, in 1908, send a copy of his new book The Philosophy of Loyalty to Deakin, now Prime Minister, in advance of the arrival of the US naval fl…
Marriage as bondage
The meaning of marriage for women was a hotly disputed issue in Australia during the first half of the twentieth century and beyond. Conscious of their status as citizens, interwar feminists became preoccupied with the anomalous condition of wives in a modern democracy. The provision of personal service in exchange for keep, the condition of wives was defined as an anachronism, a political relic, a form of feudal bondage. Feminists campaigned for…
Frontier feminism and the marauding white man
The Australian Dream of an Island Empire
The Commonwealth of Australia was founded in dreams of a Pacific empire. One of the first acts of the new nation in 1901 was to request the transfer of British New Guinea to Australian control. Aware of their poor reputation with regard to the treatment of Aborigines, Australian political leaders determined to redeem their reputation in the new colony. At the same time, however, they wanted to encourage white settlement and overcome Papuan resist…
British world or new world
This paper suggests that in discussing the formation of national identity in the decades prior to the First World War, we should move beyond the analytic binary of ‘Australian radical nationalism’ on the one hand and ‘British race patriotism’ on the other. It is suggested, furthermore, that the recent promotion of the idea of ‘British race patriotism’ as the basis of Australian national identity misses the importance of a transnational Anglo-Saxo…
Equality and Exclusion
In his path-breaking study, A Colonial Liberalism: The Lost World of Three Victorian Visionaries (1991), Stuart Macintyre makes a case for the distinctiveness of colonial liberalism and its local habitat, with liberals' insistence on the principle of political equality and the democratic right of self-government. Macintyre's three visionaries - Higinbotham, Pearson and Syme - were also leading crusaders against Chinese immigration, which peaked i…
Citizenship as Non‐Discrimination
This article explores the relationship between the United Nations sponsored principle of non‐discrimination and the policy of assimilation in the context of campaigns for Aboriginal rights in Australia in the 1950s and 1960s. The principle of non‐discrimination was important to the elaboration of the goal of an equal citizenship, to the fight against the practice of segregation and as a basis for political organisation. The campaign for the 1967 …
A Concise History of Australia
Socialism and Manhood
Although William Lane has long been the subject of historical (and literary) attention, he continues to elude easy definition.1 All writers have agreed on his political significance. Lloyd Ross described Lane as Australia's 'most popular political writer'.2 He had a following, wrote Gavin Souter, greater 'than any other political journalist in Australian history'.3 'Lane was the outstanding figure in the labour movement of the nineties', affirmed…
Childbearers as rights-bearers
In the post-suffrage era in Australia, feminists invoked maternalist arguments in support of the idea that mothers were political subjects with rights and they extended their campaigns to press for recognition of the rights of Aboriginal women. This article examines the claim made by post-suffrage feminists that ‘the common status of motherhood’ entailed a range of social, economic and civil rights. They argued in Royal Commissions, election camp…
Colonised and colonising
The feminist project in settler societies was profoundly shaped by white women's double identity as both colonised and colonising. They defined themselves in opposition to both the Old World oppressions of Britain and the older local ‘primitivisms’ of indigenous people. The imperative of the ‘advancement of women’ depended upon assumptions about the ‘backwardness’ of other women. In that sense, feminism was inherently imperialistic. Feminism's go…
The Talisman Overture
Pennant Pastime Folio
A Divided Society
John Earle and the Concept of the 'Labor Rat
Good Talk. The Extraordinary Lives of Ten Ordinary Australian Women
No Place for a Nervous Lady. Voices from the Australian Bush
Historical reconsiderations IV
Socialism and Manhood
Although William Lane has long been the subject of historical (and literary) attention, he continues to elude easy definition.1 All writers have agreed on his political significance. Lloyd Ross described Lane as Australia's 'most popular political writer'.2 He had a following, wrote Gavin Souter, greater 'than any other political journalist in Australian history'.3 'Lane was the outstanding figure in the labour movement of the nineties', affirmed…
Female Friendships and Communities
Women, gender and history
The Limits of Hope. Soldier Settlement in Victoria 1915-38
Women in Italian culture’ conference
Female desires
(1990). Female desires: The meaning of World War II. Australian Historical Studies: Vol. 24, No. 95, pp. 267-284
Finding fresh evidence
Fresh Evidence, New Witnesses: Finding Women's History, edited by Margaret Allen, Mary Hutchinson, Alison Mackinnon. (South Australian Government Printer), Adelaide, 1989
Two American concerences
Historical homes
Socialism and Manhood
Working Life
Mission Impossible
The Independence of Women and the Brotherhood of Man
In the writing of labour history, women, for so long an absence, have more recently emerged as a problematic presence. Traditionally, labour history has been a story of conflict between men, of the struggle of organised working men against capitalist exploitation and oppression. Its theoretical underpinnings are to be found in Marxism, an analysis that constructs a world in which a violent class struggle between competing capitalist men and prope…
Colonised and colonising
The feminist project in settler societies was profoundly shaped by white women's double identity as both colonised and colonising. They defined themselves in opposition to both the Old World oppressions of Britain and the older local ‘primitivisms’ of indigenous people. The imperative of the ‘advancement of women’ depended upon assumptions about the ‘backwardness’ of other women. In that sense, feminism was inherently imperialistic. Feminism's go…
Crossing borders
Personality, individuality, nationality
1994). Personality, individuality, nationality: Feminist conceptions of citizenship 1902–1940. Australian Feminist Studies: Vol. 9, Women and citizenship, pp. 25-38
"Three Views on "Creating a Nation
View One Reviewing this book has not been easy, let me tell you. Only the most persistent review editor in recent memory has led to this review being finished at all. Having already discussed Creating A Nation in a mere 800 words for The Age, and finding it difficult to talk about the work of people I know extremely well, I had hoped my earlier commitment to Labour History would be set aside. It was not to be. Still, looking at the book again, af…
On the Edge
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