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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgements Our thanks to Professor Mary Spongberg and Professor Christie Slade, for their support of the conference held at Macquarie University. Notes Sincere thanks to Stephen Garton, Professor of History and Provost & Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sydney, for taking time to do the keynote, and for providing us with a copy. For other articles from the conference, see our edited collection of postgraduate papers in the special edition of Melbourne Historical Review (2009) edited by Lisa Featherstone and Rebecca Jennings, Special Issue 1. Additional informationNotes on contributorsLisa FeatherstoneLisa Featherstone is a Lecturer in Australian History at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her work focuses on sexuality and reproduction in Australia, and she has published widely on masculinity, sex education, sadism, sexual normativity and childbirth. Her first book, Let's Talk About Sex: histories of sexuality in Australia from federation to the pill, was published in 2011.Rebecca JenningsRebecca Jennings is an ARC Future Fellow in the Department of Modern History, Macquarie University. Her research focuses on modern British and Australian lesbian history and she is the author of Tomboys and Bachelor Girls: a lesbian history of post-war Britain, 1945–71 (Manchester University Press, 2007) and A Lesbian History of Britain: love and sex between women since 1500 (Greenwood Press, 2007)

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