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Family Violence

Aitken, Jo. “‘The Horrors of Matrimony among the Masses’: Feminist Representations of Wife Beating in England and Australia, 1870-1914.” Journal of Women’s History 19, no. 4 (2007): 107-31.

Allen, Judith. “The Invention of the Pathological Family: A Historical Study of Family Violence in N.S.W.”. In Family Violence in Australia, edited by Carol O’Donnell and Jan Craney, 1-27. Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1982.

Biber, Katherine. “Little Clues: Frances Glessner Lee’s Archives of Domestic Homicide.” law&history 6, no. 2 (2019): 46-82.

Bronitt, Simon, and Wendy Kukulies-Smith. “Crime, Punishment, Family Violence, and the Cloak of Legal Invisibility.” Journal of Australian Studies 37, no. 3 (September 1, 2013): 390–401.

Durnian, Lisa. ‘”Your Troubles Are Over, Mummy”: Prosecuting Children who Kill Violent Men’. Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives, edited by Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2019. 49-62.

Evans, Raymond. “A Gun in the Oven: Masculinism and Gendered Violence.” In Gender Relations in Australia: Domination and Negotiation, edited by Kay Saunders and Raymond Evans, 197-218. Marrickville: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Group, 1992.

Evans, Tanya. Fractured Families: Life on the Margins in Colonial New South Wales Sydney: UNSW Press, 2015.

Evans, Tanya. ‘Discovering Violence in the Family’. Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives, edited by Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2019. 20-33.

Featherstone, Lisa, and Alexander George Winn. “Marital Rape and the Marital Rapist: The 1976 South Australian Rape Law Reforms.” Feminist Legal Studies 27, no. 1 (2018): 57-78.

Featherstone, Lisa. ‘Criminalising the Husband and the Home: Marital Rape Law Reform, 1976-1994’. Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives, edited by Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2019. 78-92.

Featherstone, Lisa. “‘That’s What Being a Woman Is For’: Opposition to Marital Rape Law Reform in Late Twentieth Century Australia.” Gender and History 29, no. 1 (2017): 87-103.

Featherstone, Lisa. “”Children in a Terrible State”: Understandings of Trauma and Child Sexual Assault in 1970s and 1980s Australia.” Journal of Australian Studies 42, no. 2 (2018): 164-76.

Featherstone, Lisa. “Women’s Rights, Men’s Rights, Human Rights: Discourses of Rights and Rape in Marriage in 1970s and 1980s Australia.” Law and History 5, no. 2 (2018): 1-29.

Haebich, Anna. “Murdering Stepmothers: The Trial and Execution of Martha Rendell.” Journal of Australian Studies 22, no. 59 (January 1, 1998): 66–81.

Harman, Kristyn. “‘Murder will out’: Intimacy, Violence, and the Snow Family in Early Colonial New Zealand.” The Intimacies of Violence in Settler Colonial Economies: Everyday Encounters around the Pacific Rim, edited by Penelope Edmonds and Amanda Nettelbeck. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies series. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Hogan, Ashley. ““I Never Noticed She Was Dirty”: Fatherhood and the Death of Charlotte Duffy in Late-Nineteenth-Century Victoria.” Journal of Family History 24, no. 3 (1999): 305-16.

Kaladelfos, Amanda. ‘The Dark Side of the Family: Paternal Child Homicide in Australia’. Journal of Australian Studies 37, no. 3 (2013): 333-348.

Kaladelfos, Andy. ‘Uncovering a Hidden Offence: Social and Legal Histories of Familial Sexual Abuse’. Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives, edited by Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2019. 63-77.

Piper, Alana and Ana Stevenson. ‘Introduction: Challenging Gender Violence’. Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives, edited by Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2019.

Piper, Alana. ‘Understanding Economic Abuse as Domestic Violence’. Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives, edited by Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2019. 34-48.

McConnell, Ruth, and Steve Mullins. “‘We Had Both Been Drinking since Christmas,’ – Battered Wives and Dead Abusive Husbands in Early Colonial Rockhampton.” Journal of Australian Colonial History 5 (2004): 100-19.

Nelson, Elizabeth. “Civilian Men and Domestic Violence in the Aftermath of the First World War.” Journal of Australian Studies 27, no. 76 (2003): 97-108.

Nelson, Elizabeth. Homefront Hostilities: The First World War and Domestic Violence.  North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly, 2014.

Saunders, Kay. “The Study of Domestic Violence in Colonial Queensland: Sources and Problems.” Historical Studies 21, no. 82 (1984): 68-84.

Simic, Zora. ‘Historicising a “National Disgrace”: Towards a Feminist History of Domestic Violence since 1788’. Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives, edited by Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2019. 3-19.

Smaal, Yorick. “Keeping it in the family: Prosecuting incest in colonial Queensland.” Journal of Australian Studies 37, no. 3 (2013): 316-332.

Swain, Shurlee. “Confronting Cruelty: Writing a History of the Detection and Treatment of Child Abuse “. Victorian Historical Journal 71, no. 1 (2000): 7-18.

Theobald, Jacqui. “Feminist Oral History and the Victorian Domestic Violence Services Movement.” Australian Feminist Studies 28, no. 78 (2013): 364-74.

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