Professor Lisa Featherstone
Head of School
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
+61 7 336 52613
Books
Featherstone, Lisa, Byrnes, Cassandra, Maturi, Jenny, Minto, Kiara, Mickelburgh, Renée and Donaghy, Paige (2024). The Limits of Consent : Sexual Assault and Affirmative Consent. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-46622-9
Featherstone, Lisa (2021). Sexual violence in Australia, 1970s –1980s: rape and child sexual abuse. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-73310-0
Featherstone, Lisa and Kaladelfos, Amanda (2016). Sex crimes in the fifties. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Publishing.
Featherstone, Lisa (2011). Let's talk about sex : histories of sexuality in Australia from Federation to the pill. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Book Chapters
Featherstone, Lisa and Byrnes, Cassandra (2018). A history of gender. Gender: time. (pp. 85-102) edited by Karin Sellberg. New York, NY, United States: Macmillan Reference USA.
Kaladelfos, Andy and Featherstone, Lisa (2017). Race and ethnicity in sex crimes trials from 1950s Australia. Legacies of violence: rendering the unspeakable past in modern Australia. (pp. 217-232) edited by Robert Mason. New York, United States: Berghahn Books. doi: 10.1515/9781785334375-013
Kaladelfos, Andy and Featherstone, Lisa (2016). Sexual assault by teachers: historical legislative, policy, and prosecutorial responses. The sexual abuse of children: recognition and redress. (pp. 20-34) edited by Yorick Smaal, Andy Kaladelfos and Mark Finnane. Clayton, VIC, Australia: Monash University Publishing.
Featherstone, Lisa (2015). The curious case/s of Dr. Wallace: sexuality and the medical file in postwar Australia. Case studies and the dissemination of knowledge. (pp. 118-132) edited by Joy Damousi, Birgit Lang and Katie Sutton. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315746777
Featherstone, Lisa and Ward, Haylee (2014). Pleasure, pain, power and politics: Australian feminist responses to pornography, 1970-89. Acts of love and lust: histories of sexuality in Australia, 1945-2010. (pp. 44-63) edited by Lisa Featherstone, Rebecca Jennings and Robert Reynolds. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Featherstone, Lisa (2013). Snippets and shadows of stories: thoughts on sources and methods when writing an Australian history of sexuality. Intimacy, violence and activism: gay and lesbian perspectives on Australasian history and society. (pp. 74-89) edited by Graham Willett and Yorick Smaal. Clayton, VIC, Australia: Monash University Press.
Featherstone, Lisa (2011). Confined: constructions of childbirth in popular and elite medical culture in late nineteenth-century Australia. Gender, health, and popular culture: historical perspectives. (pp. 3-22) edited by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh. Ontario, Canada: Wilfred Laurier University Press.
Featherstone, Lisa (2011). Sex and subculture: Bruce Beresford’s Puberty Blues. Making Film and Television Histories: Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 164-168) edited by James E. Bennett and Rebecca Beirne. London, United Kingdom: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd.
Featherstone, Lisa (2011). Even more hidden from history? Male homosexuality and medicine in turn of the century Australia. Out here: lesbian and gay perspectives 6. (pp. 56-68) edited by Yorick Smaal and Graham Willett. Clayton, VIC, Australia: Monash University Publishing.
Featherstone, Lisa (2008). Birth. The Dictionary of Sydney. (pp. 1-4) Sydney, Australia: The Dictionary of Sydney.
Featherstone, Lisa (2006). Foucault, feminism and history. Feminist Alliances. (pp. 77-90) edited by Lynda Burns. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
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.
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.
Journal Articles
Ginn, Geoff and Featherstone, Lisa (2023). Editorial Note. Australian Journal of Politics & History, 69 (4), 579-579. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12960
Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. and Featherstone, Lisa (2021). Editorial note. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 67 (1), 1-1. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12767
Featherstone, Lisa and Winn, Alexander George (2018). Marital Rape and the Marital Rapist: The 1976 South Australian Rape Law Reforms. Feminist Legal Studies, 27 (1), 57-78. doi: 10.1007/s10691-018-9382-3
Featherstone, Lisa (2018). "Children in a terrible state": understandings of trauma and child sexual assault in 1970s and 1980s Australia. Journal of Australian Studies, 42 (2), 164-176. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2018.1455063
Featherstone, Lisa (2018). Look the other way: dealing with child sexual abuse outside of institutions in 1980s Australia. Australian Historical Studies, 49 (3), 1-17. doi: 10.1080/1031461X.2018.1474933
Featherstone, Lisa (2018). Women's rights, men's rights, human rights: discourses of rights and rape in marriage in 1970s and 1980s Australia. Law and History, 5 (2), 1-29.
Featherstone, Lisa (2017). The science of pleasure: medicine and sex therapy in mid-twentieth-century Australia. Social History of Medicine, 31 (3), 445-461. doi: 10.1093/shm/hkx005
Featherstone, Lisa (2017). ‘That's what being a woman is for’: opposition to marital rape law reform in late twentieth century Australia. Gender and History, 29 (1), 87-103. doi: 10.1111/1468-0424.12281
Featherstone, Lisa and Reynolds, Robert (2016). From the Guest Editors: Historicising Sexualities. History Australia, 10 (1), 4-9. doi: 10.1080/14490854.2012.11668443
Featherstone, Lisa and Kaladelfos, Amanda (2014). Hierarchies of harm and violence: historicising familial sexual violence in Australia. Australian Feminist Studies, 29 (81), 306-324. doi: 10.1080/08164649.2014.958122
Kaladelfos, Amanda and Featherstone, Lisa (2014). Sexual and gender-based violence: definitions, contexts, meanings. Australian Feminist Studies, 29 (81), 233-237. doi: 10.1080/08164649.2014.958121
Featherstone, Lisa and Smaal, Yorick (2013). The family in Australia. Journal of Australian Studies, 37 (3), 279-284. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2013.815574
Featherstone, Lisa (2013). ‘The one single primary cause’: divorce, the family and heterosexual pleasure in postwar Australia. Journal of Australian Studies, 37 (3), 349-363. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2013.815256
Featherstone, Lisa (2013). Censoring sex: the case of WJ Chidley. History Australia, 10 (1), 58-76. doi: 10.1080/14490854.2013.11668446
Featherstone, Lisa and Jennings, Rebecca (2012). Introduction: Talking about sex: histories of sexuality in Australia and New Zealand. Women's History Review, 21 (5), 691-695. doi: 10.1080/09612025.2012.658184
Featherstone, Lisa (2012). Rethinking female pleasure: purity and desire in early twentieth century Australia. Women's History Review, 21 (5), 715-731. doi: 10.1080/09612025.2012.658181
Featherstone, Lisa (2010). Sex educating the modern girl: the formation of new knowledge in interwar Australia. Journal of Australian Studies, 34 (4), 459-469. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2010.519103
Featherstone, Lisa (2010). ‘Fitful rambles of an unruly pencil’: George Southern’s challenge to sexual normativity in 1920s Australia. Journal of the History of Sexuality, 19 (3), 389-408.
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
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
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
Featherstone, Lisa (2008). Review of the Sexual Life of US. History Australia, 5 (3), 83.1-83.2. doi: 10.2104/ha080083
Featherstone, Lisa (2008). Sex and the Australian legend: masculinity and the white man's body. Journal of Australian Colonial History, 10 (2), 73-90.
Featherstone, Lisa (2008). Becoming a baby? The foetus in late nineteenth century Australia. Australian Feminist Studies, 23 (58), 451-465. doi: 10.1080/08164640802433340
Featherstone, Lisa (2006). Imagining the black body: race, gender and gynaecology in late colonial Australia. Lilith, 15, 86-96.
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
Featherstone, Lisa (2004). Surveying the mother: the rise of antenatal care in early twentieth-century Australia. Limina, 10, 16-31.
Conference Paper
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.