Visibility problems: Concepts of gender in Australian historical discourse∗

∗ We should like to thank Clive Moore and Bill Thorpe for their comments on an earlier draft of this article.

Abstract

Feminist historiography of the 1970s challenged dominant paradigms by attempting to integrate ‘women’ into historical narratives. Gender relations studies have taken this re‐evaluation further by problematising categories of ‘men’ and ‘women’. Yet these endeavours have been fraught with conceptual and methodological difficulties as the range, complexity and interpenetration of categories of race, ethnicity, sexuality, religion and region have been coterminously analysed.

Notes

∗ We should like to thank Clive Moore and Bill Thorpe for their comments on an earlier draft of this article.