Overview
Availability
- Professor Lisa Featherstone is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, Macquarie University
Works
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2010
Journal Article
Pathologising white male sexuality in late nineteenth century Australia through the medical prism of excess and constraint
Featherstone, Lisa (2010). Pathologising white male sexuality in late nineteenth century Australia through the medical prism of excess and constraint. Australian Historical Studies, 41 (3), 337-351. doi: 10.1080/1031461X.2010.493949
2009
Edited Outputs
Melbourne Historical Journal
Melbourne Historical Journal. (2009). 37 (1)
2008
Journal Article
Opening up women's bodies: new thoughts on the old practice of dissection
Featherstone, Lisa (2008). Opening up women's bodies: new thoughts on the old practice of dissection. Metascience, 17 (2), 311-313. doi: 10.1007/s11016-008-9199-9
2008
Journal Article
Sex and the Australian legend: masculinity and the white man's body
Featherstone, Lisa (2008). Sex and the Australian legend: masculinity and the white man's body. Journal of Australian Colonial History, 10 (2), 73-90.
2008
Journal Article
Becoming a baby? The foetus in late nineteenth century Australia
Featherstone, Lisa (2008). Becoming a baby? The foetus in late nineteenth century Australia. Australian Feminist Studies, 23 (58), 451-465. doi: 10.1080/08164640802433340
2008
Journal Article
The value of an infant: the rise of paediatrics in Australia, 1880-1910
Featherstone, Lisa (2008). The value of an infant: the rise of paediatrics in Australia, 1880-1910. Health and History, 10 (1), 110-133. doi: 10.2307/40111596
2008
Book Chapter
Birth
Featherstone, Lisa (2008). Birth. The Dictionary of Sydney. (pp. 1-4) Sydney, Australia: The Dictionary of Sydney.
2008
Journal Article
Review of the Sexual Life of US
Featherstone, Lisa (2008). Review of the Sexual Life of US. History Australia, 5 (3), 83.1-83.2. doi: 10.2104/ha080083
2007
Conference Publication
“The value of the Victorian infant”: whiteness and the emergence of paediatrics in late colonial Australia
Featherstone, Lisa (2007). “The value of the Victorian infant”: whiteness and the emergence of paediatrics in late colonial Australia. Historicising Whiteness Conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 22-24 November 2006. Melbourne, Victoria: RMIT Publishing.
2006
Book Chapter
Foucault, feminism and history
Featherstone, Lisa (2006). Foucault, feminism and history. Feminist Alliances. (pp. 77-90) edited by Lynda Burns. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
2006
Journal Article
Imagining the black body: race, gender and gynaecology in late colonial Australia
Featherstone, Lisa (2006). Imagining the black body: race, gender and gynaecology in late colonial Australia. Lilith, 15, 86-96.
2005
Journal Article
Sexy mamas? The public and private sexualities of Australian women in the 1940s
Featherstone, Lisa (2005). Sexy mamas? The public and private sexualities of Australian women in the 1940s. Australian Historical Studies, 36 (126), 234-252. doi: 10.1080/10314610508682922
2005
Book Chapter
The kindest cut? The origins of the caesarean section in Australia 1880-1990
Featherstone, Lisa (2005). The kindest cut? The origins of the caesarean section in Australia 1880-1990. Motherhood: Power and Oppression. edited by Andrea O'Reilly, Marie Porter and Patricia Short. Toronto, Canada: Women's Press.
2005
Book Chapter
Infant ideologies: doctors, mothers and the feeding of children in Australia 1880-1910
Featherstone, Lisa (2005). Infant ideologies: doctors, mothers and the feeding of children in Australia 1880-1910. Children’s health: international historical perspectives. (pp. 131-160) edited by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh and Veronica Strong-Boag. Waterloo, ON, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
2004
Journal Article
Surveying the mother: the rise of antenatal care in early twentieth-century Australia
Featherstone, Lisa (2004). Surveying the mother: the rise of antenatal care in early twentieth-century Australia. Limina, 10, 16-31.
Supervision
Availability
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- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
"A dreadful type of crime": Rape and Queensland's Criminal Justice System, 1945-1955
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Cassandra Byrnes
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Doctor Philosophy
"A dreadful type of crime": Rape and Queensland's Criminal Justice System, 1945-1955
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Cassandra Byrnes
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Doctor Philosophy
THE WAY BACK HOME Social Remembering from Huian Women (1368-2020)
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Cassandra Byrnes
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Doctor Philosophy
Female Troubles: Reproductive 'Dysfunction' and Medical Control in Mid-Twentieth Century Australia
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Peter Cryle, Associate Professor Ian Hesketh
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Doctor Philosophy
The Unsexed Woman: Female Reproductive Disorders in mid 20th Century Australia
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Peter Cryle, Associate Professor Ian Hesketh
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Doctor Philosophy
"A dreadful type of crime": Rape and Queensland's Criminal Justice System, 1945-1955
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Cassandra Byrnes
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Doctor Philosophy
Not Born, But Made: Understanding the Provenance and Evolution of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse in Twentieth-Century Australia Through Perceptions of Childhood
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Cassandra Byrnes
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Doctor Philosophy
THE WAY BACK HOME Social Remembering from Huian Women (1368-2020)
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Cassandra Byrnes
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Doctor Philosophy
A Place at the Table: Queer Indigenous Women in Australian Health Law and Policy
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Not Born, But Made: Understanding the Provenance and Evolution of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse in Twentieth-Century Australia Through Perceptions of Childhood
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Cassandra Byrnes
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Doctor Philosophy
Australian Army Nurses and war-related trauma in WW1
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Martin Crotty
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Doctor Philosophy
Australian Army nurses and war related trauma in World War I
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Martin Crotty
Completed supervision
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2025
Doctor Philosophy
"A dreadful type of crime": Rape and Queensland's Criminal Justice System, 1945-1955
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Cassandra Byrnes
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Conservative Sex: A History of Abortion, Contraception, and Sexual Health in Queensland, 1960-1989
Principal Advisor
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Negotiating Order in the Colonial City: Civic Improvement and the Social Ordering of Public Space in Brisbane, 1875-1914
Principal Advisor
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Towards a Servantless Future: The Decline of Domestic Service by White Women in Australia and Britain, 1911-1951
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
From Dispossession to Display: Authenticity, Aboriginality and the Queensland Museum, c.1862-1917
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Uncertain Knowledge: False Conception and Molas in European Medicine, 1500-1800
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Karin Sellberg, Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens
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