Papers & publications

Publications

Barnard, J.& Twigg, K. (2014), Nursing Mums: A History of the Australian Breastfeeding Association, 1964 to 2014, Australian Breastfeeding Association.

Barnard, J. & Twigg, K. (2004), Holding on to Hope, A History of the Founding Agencies of MacKillop Family Services, 1854-1997, Australian Scholarly Publishing.

Bell, J. & Murphy, K. (2022),  'The Royal Commission on Human Relationships and Australian Masculinity in the 1970s', Gender and History, 2022, online at http://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12638

Bell, J. (2013), ‘Putting Dad in the Picture: Fatherhood in the Popular Women’s Magazines of 1950s Australia’, Women’s History Review 22, 3, 904-29.

Bell, J. (2012), ‘Needing a Woman’s Hand: Child Protection and the Problem of the Lone Fathers’, History Australia 9, 2, 90-110.

Murphy, J. (2005), ‘Work in a Time of Plenty: Narratives of Men’s Work in Post-War Australia’, Labour History 88, 215-31.

Murphy, J. (2002), ‘Breadwinning: Accounts of Work and Family Life in the 1950s’, Labour and Industry 12, 3, 59-75.

Murphy, J. (2000),  Imagining the Fifties: private sentiment and political culture in Menzies’ Australia, University of New South Wales Press and Pluto Press.

Murphy J. & Probert, B. (2004), ‘“Anything for the House”: Recollections of post-war suburban dreaming’, Australian Historical Studies 36, 124, 275–93.

Murphy, K. (2010), Fears and Fantasies: Gender, Modernity and the Rural-Urban Divide, Peter Lang Publishing.

Roper, M. (2009), The Secret Battle: Emotional Survival in the Great War, Manchester University Press.

Roper, M. (2005), ‘Slipping out of View: Subjectivity and Emotion in Gender History’, History Workshop Journal 59, 57-72.

Roper, M. (1994), Masculinity and the British Organization Man Since 1945, Oxford University Press.

Thomson, A . (2022), ‘Gender culture or gender system? Family gender arrangements and stay-at-home fathers in late 20th century Australia’, Gender and History, 34, 2, 2022, 534-553, published online 10.8.2021 at http://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12563

Thomson, A. (2019), ‘I am no longer the same person’: Life stories and the gendered history of migration’, in Kate Darian-Smith and Paula Hamilton (eds), Remembering Migration: Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, pp 17-28, https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030177508

Thomson, A. (2020), ‘New Wave Fathers? Oral Histories with Australian Fathers from the1970s-1990s’, in Petra Bueskens and Carla Pascoe (eds), Mothering Australia, Palgrave Macmillan, in press, forthcoming.

Thomson, A. (2019),Oral History (UK), theme issue on ‘Parenthood’ (guest editor with Carla Pascoe), 46, 1, 2019.

Thomson, A. (2019), ‘"Tied to the kitchen sink"? Women’s lives and women’s history in mid-twentieth century Britain and Australia', Women’s History Review, 22, 1, 2013, pp. 126-47.

Thomson, A. (2019), ‘“When’s Dad home?” An Oral History of Interwar Australian Fatherhood’, Oral History 46, 1, 2019, 35-48.

Thomson, A. (2019), 'Indexing and Interpreting Emotion: Joy and Shame in Oral History', Oral History Australia Journal 41, 2019, 1-11.

Thomson, A. (2017), Australian Lives: an Intimate History (co-author with Anisa Puri), Melbourne, Monash University Publishing (paperback and ebook).

Thomson, A. (2011), Moving Stories: an intimate history of four women across two countries, Manchester University Press and UNSW Press.

Thomson, A. (2008),‘”I'm not a good mother”: gender expectations and tensions in a migrant woman’s life story’, in Desley Deacon Penny Russell and Angela Woollacott (eds), Looking Out: Australian Lives in the World, ANU E Press, 2008, pp 149-164. (http://epress.anu.edu.au/anu_lives/transnational/pdf/ch09.pdf)

Presentations

Thomson, A. (2020), 'From dads to hands-on parents: reflections on Australian oral histories about the 1980s-1990s (or, what makes some fathers become primary carers?)', Melbourne Feminist History Group, 1 September 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7sUFfxCqG4 (17 minute presentation begins at 28.15)

Thomson, A. (2020), ‘Australian Fatherhood: Learning From History’, keynote lecture for Australian Fatherhood Research Symposium, Deakin University, 7 May 2020.

Thomson, A. (2021),  'Australian fatherhood: Learning from History', keynote lecture at the  Australian Fatherhood Research Symposium, Deakin University, 6 May 2021.  https://deakin.zoom.us/rec/share/Kkn0aB-nuV2hsb8EHbp4fpbMhsgERnchEXNG2WejFXTfH430g8gjhaj0Qqh6WLk.SiR3qgn4TZGeo-Bp. (Passcode: 90+CyQ+0)

Other outputs

Murphy, K. (2023), ‘What gave rise to the breadwinner’ – Kate Murphy contributes to episode 2 of Working Fathers, a podcast about dads, families and work (17 July 2023) at https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2023/07/17/working-fathers-episode-2/

Thomson, A. (2019), ‘Tracing Australia’s History of Fatherhood’, Monash Lens, August 2019, https://lens.monash.edu/2019/08/09/1376057/tracing-australias-history-of-fatherhood

Thomson, A. (2014), ‘Anzac Memories Revisited: Searching for Hector Thomson’, ABC Radio National Hindsight, 20 April 2014. (http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/new-document/5372570)

Thomson, A. and Murphy, J.  (2019),‘Australian family policy’, with Carla Pascoe ABC Radio National Big Ideas program, 8 August 2019, https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/australian-family-policy/11374502