James Keating

@jameskeating.bsky.social

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📖 Historian of suffrage, feminism and internationalism | 🖊️ Distant Sisters (MUP, 2020) | @ahsjournal.bsky.social Book Review Editor | he/him

The abstract of '“Soldier Struck”: Public Discourses, Women and American Servicemen in World War II South Australia', it reads: 'The social impact of Allied Forces on the Australian home front is central to research on World War II gender relations but is often overlooked in South Australia. The arrival of 20,000 American servicemen in Adelaide in March 1942 heightened anxiety about immoral female behaviour. This article illuminates the public discourses and state controls implemented in South Australia in response to women’s contact with American servicemen, female alcohol consumption, and spread of venereal disease. It argues that the pejorative labels applied to women during this time had a self-disciplinary e ect, prompting some who pursued American servicemen to adopt a discourse of feminine patriotism to describe their relationships.'
The abstract to my article: it reads "In the 1920s and 1930s, Australian feminists – alongside their counterparts across the world – confronted their omission from collecting institutions as they fought exclusion from the entangled pursuits of history-writing and nation-making. Extending the scholarship on women’s ‘archival activism’, this article details feminists’ heterogenous mnemonic practices by studying how author Miles Franklin and suffragist and pacifist Vida Goldstein created paper trails and considered posterity. Scrutinising both women’s divergent archival strategies and memory networks not only clarifies their decisions about housing their collections in state archives or gender-dedicated institutions but reveals their deliberation over whether the nation constituted a suitable vector for the transmission of feminist knowledge."
A grey heron (I think?) standing on a rock in front of a late autumnal pond.
Woolf’s ‘The Years’ being held up in an economy class plane seat.
A group of five people standing together at the start of the Walk Against Family Violence
A close up image of the left rear corner of a red convertible with a few weeds growing out of the sealing.