Feminist Histories and Digital Media
About this ebook
The contributions to the book explore three key concerns: projects which document the history of women’s political activism; the digitising of primary document archives by women; and the impact of digitisation on historical research about women. In addition, the book sheds light on the way in which historians and literary scholars fuse digital sources with traditional forms such as books and journal articles to imagine different and ground-breaking histories of women’s experience.
With the field of feminist history and its relationship to the digital world in a dynamic position, the contributions to this volume can be read as signposts for future research in the field, posing questions for scholars and readers to explore in more detail. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s History Review.
About the author
Paula Hamilton is Professor of History and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, and at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She is a cultural historian who has published widely in oral histories and memory studies, exploring the intersection between personal and public memories. Her current research explores sensory memories of working in the home as a tool for understanding intimate class and gender relations. She is the co-editor of A Cultural History of Sound Memory and the Senses (with Joy Damousi, 2017).
Mary Spongberg is Deputy Vice Chancellor of Research at Southern Cross University, Australia. She is the author of Writing Women’s History Since the Renaissance (2002), principal editor of the Companion to Women’s Historical Writing (2005) and former editor-in-chief of Australian Women’s Studies. Her latest book is Empathetic Histories: English Women Writers and the Nation’s Past 1790–1860 (2018).
