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Macquarie University
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Alison Holland is a lecturer in Aboriginal History and Australian Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney. Her PhD thesis, titled, 'Saving the Aborigines'. The White Woman's Crusade. A Study of Gender, Race and the Australian Frontier, 1920s-1960s, was awarded by the University of New South Wales in 1999. Prior to this she worked as a Sydney-based curator for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, having earlier completed a Diploma of Museum Studies. She is currently reworking her thesis for publication. In the meantime, she has published widely in the areas of Indigenous and women's history in leading journals, such as Labour History, Australian Historical Studies and Australian Feminist Studies. She is also preparing a chapter on citizenship in Australian History to be included in the forthcoming Themes in Australian History, edited by Martyn Lyons and Penny Russell (UNSW Press), in conjunction with the 20th International Congress of Historical Sciences conference held in Sydney in 2005.
Publications
Books
Salvation and Reform: The White Woman and the 'Native Question'. A Study of Gender, 'Race' and the Australian Frontier, (In preparation).
Book Chapters
�Anthony Martin Fernando�, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Supplement, 2005.
�Experiments in Citizenship�, Martyn Lyons and Penny Russell (eds.), Themes in Australian History, University of New South Wales Press, 2005
�Saving the Race: Critics of Absorption Look for an Alternative�, Tim Rowse (ed.), Contesting Assimilation: Histories of Colonial and Indigenous Initiatives (Canberra) 2004.
�Domestic Slavery and Marriage Bondage? The Contest over Aboriginal Women's Bodies in inter-war Australia: Mary Bennett�, Anna Cole et al (eds.), Uncommon Ground. White Women in Aboriginal History, Aboriginal Studies Press 2004.
'Post-War Women Reformers and Aboriginal Citizenship. Rehearsing an old Campaign?', Joy Damousi and Katherine Ellinghaus, Citizenship, Women and Social Justice. International Historical Perspectives, History Department, The University of Melbourne, 1999.
Journal Articles
Mary Bennett and the Feminists: A Response, Australian Historical Studies, No.120, October 2002.
'Wives and Mothers Like Ourselves? Exploring White Women's Intervention in the Politics of Race, 1920s-1940s, Australian Historical Studies, November 2001.
'The Campaign for Women Protectors: Gender, Race and Frontier Between the Wars', Australian Feminist Studies, April 2001.
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