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Women's Studies Collection

Accessing collections Special collections Women's Studies Collection

An archival collection on the history of the teaching of Women's Studies at Flinders University, from its beginnings as part of the Philosophy discipline. The materials were donated by Sue Sheridan in 2008 and Miriam Tonkin in 2010. It comprises 6 boxes and includes files of course information, reports, reviews, articles and correspondence, spanning 1973 to 2006.

General conditions of access apply. For further information about this collection, please contact Special Collections.

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List of files

Box

Folder

Title

Author

Citation

First date

Comments

Type

1

1

A History of Women's Studies at Flinders University

Women's Studies Collective

Printed by Andrew McHugh on Empire Times Press

1.01.1987

 

Booklet

1

2

From handmaiden to equal partner: the relationship between Women's Studies and the Women's Movement in Australia 1973-1995

Ryan, Lyndall

 

1.01.1996

Typescript

Manuscript

1

3

CVs of Lyndall Ryan and Sue Sheridan

Ryan, Lyndall; Sheridan, Sue

 

1.01.1997

 

Manuscript

1

4

20th anniversary of Women's Studies at Flinders

   

14.07.2005

 

File

1

5

Documenting the History of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Tasmania

Rockel, Angela (ed.)

The Women's Studies Committee of the University of Tasmania, October 2002

1.10.2000

 

Booklet

1

6

Women's Worlds 2005: 9th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, June 19-24, 2005, Seoul, Korea

   

19.06.2005

 

File

1

7

FUSA suffrage centenary

   

12.04.1992

 

File

1

8

1996 Review of the Women's Studies unit

   

31.03.1995

Memoranda

Correspondence

1

9

Flinders W.S. - development

   

21.04.1986

SS application for Women's Studies Lecturer position

File

1

10

W.S. - 3rd FT pos. 2003

   

24.10.2003

Memoranda, notes

File

1

11

MA (WS) amendments 1996-1999

   

1.02.1996

Memoranda, documents

File

1

12

Women's Studies course guides 1

   

1.08.1988

Course information 1988-1994

File

1

13

Women's Studies course guides 2

   

1.03.1998

Course information 1998-2001

File

1

14

Student essays (1987)

   

10.07.1987

3 student essays, 2 from 1987, 1 from c1995

Manuscript

1

15

Women's Studies Students

   

1.12.1996

List of higher degree students (inc. honours), List of WS honours theses 1988-95

File

1

16

Student essays on Theorizing Subjectivity

   

10.04.1991

2 student essays 1991 and 1992

Manuscript

1

17

Student essays, class lists 41302

   

12.10.1988

5 student essays 1988 to 2003; class lists

Manuscript

1

18

Women's Studies course guides 3

   

1.01.1988

Course guides etc for 41301 Issues in Feminist Theory. 1988-90

File

1

19

Women's Studies course guides 4

   

1.01.1991

Course guides etc for 41301 Issues in Feminist Theory. 1991-94

File

1

21

Women's Studies course guides 6

   

1.01.2002

Course guides etc. for WMST 3001, Thinking Through the Body 2002, 2005

File

1

20

Women's Studies course guides 5

   

1.01.1995

Course guides etc for 41301 Issues in Feminist Theory. 1995-2001

File

2

1

Women's Studies course guides 7

   

1.01.1987

Course guides etc. for Gender in Australian History (41202 / WMST 2002) 1987, 1992, 1995

File

2

2

Women's Studies handbooks

   

1.01.1995

Information Handbook 1995, Undergraduate Handbook 2002, 2006, Honours Handbook 2006, Postgraduate handbook 2006

File

2

3

Women's Studies students survey, M. Dever, Monash, 2000

Dever, Maryanne

 

1.05.2000

 

File

2

4

Enrolments 1999-2006

   

28.03.2006

 

File

2

5

Counter calendar 1988, 1992

   

1.02.1988

 

File

2

6

Empire Times (women's issues etc.)

   

1.10.1987

 

File

2

7

Postgraduate Newsletters 1991-5

   

1.03.1991

 

File

2

8

Research report 1987, 89, 90

     

Also includes review of 'Who Was That Woman?' The Australian, 8/11/2001

File

2

9

Research - staff & postgrads - 'I Had One Too...', seminars

   

10.04.2006

List of conferences, seminars, visiting speakers 1987-2006

File

2

10

Visitors 1987-1995

   

19.05.1987

Correspondence, CVs

File

2

11

Women's Studies seminars

   

18.09.1987

Programs, correspondence

File

2

12

Women's Studies seminars 1997/8 and earlier

   

27.07.1992

Programs, correspondence

File

2

13

Women's Studies seminars 1999

   

8.12.1992

Programs, correspondence

File

2

14

Women's Studies Unit 1998

   

11.06.1998

Correspondence re staffing, student progress

Correspondence

2

15

Foundation Course - finances, admin

   

14.12.1987

Correspondence, invoices, reports

File

2

16

Foundation Course

   

1.01.2002

Student surveys, memos

File

2

17

Year of Equal Opportunity 1995

   

4.04.1995

Correspondence, documents

File

2

18

Equity Seminar 13.12.1989

   

20.10.1989

Correspondence, program, documents

File

3

1

WS - relations with University

   

9.06.1992

Documents, notes

File

3

2

Women's Studies at Flinders - Papers by SMS

Sheridan, Sue

 

18.09.1991

Correspondence, articles, notes

File

3

3

Feminist Knowledge, Women's Liberation and Women's Studies

Sheridan, Sue

   

Typescript of article

Manuscript

3

4

Women in Social Sciences lunch

   

27.09.1988

Invitations, notes

File

3

5

7th Australian Women's Studies Association Conference, Adelaide, 1998

   

16.04.1998

Conference proceedings, registration form

File

3

6

AWSA Conference 1998

   

21.03.1997

Minutes of planning meetings

File

3

7

Readings on Women's Studies

Sheridan, Sue; Rowland, Robyn

 

1.08.1981

2 articles: Women's Studies by Robyn Rowland, Women's Studies Int., 5(5), 1982, p 487-495; Building on the Community Based Access Programme by Sue Sheridan (Typescript)

File

3

8

Politics/Women's Studies etc.

   

6.07.1989

AWSA conferences, newsletters, NOWSA conference 92,

File

3

9

International Interdisciplinary Congress on women (5th and 6th)

   

22.02.1993

Programs, directories

File

3

10

Women in Tertiary Institutions (WITI)

   

9.09.1988

Newsletters, correspondence

File

3

12

Women, power and politics: an international conference to advance the rights of women and their role in politics

 

Women's Suffrage Centenary Steering Committee, Adelaide, 1995. ISTN 073080612X

8.10.1994

Conference proceedings, newsletters

Booklet

3

11

Stage 1 and stage 2 Women's Studies Curriculum Statements 2004

SSABSA

SSABSA, Wayville, 2004

1.01.2004

 

Booklet

3

13

The Internet and Women's Studies

   

12.06.2001

Booklet of web pages

Booklet

3

14

W.A.G. (Womens Action Group)

   

23.04.1987

Agendas, Minutes

File

4

1

Draft papers for the writing of Twenty Years: A History of the Women's Studies Department at FUSA 1986-2006

   

25.07.2006

Drafts, emails, notes

File

4

2

Interviews for WS history 1/2

   

25.07.2006

Emails, interviews, notes

File

4

3

Interviews for WS history 2/2

   

25.07.2006

Emails, interviews, notes

File

4

4

Lyndall Ryan interview on CD

Ryan, Lyndall

 

9.03.2006

Only to be accessed with LR's permission for research

CD

4

5

Women's Studies 1984-

   

1.01.1981

Relationship between W.S. and Philosophy Discipline; History of Courses 14223 WS and 14224 Feminsim; Essay topics of WS, and Report of Working party on Women's Studies

File

4

6

Women's Studies pre 1986

   

1.01.1973

A Guide to Flinders Women's Studies 1973; A Guide to Women's Studies in Australia ed Penny Ryan, 1975?

Booklets

4

7

Women and Religion

Haley, Eileen

 

1.01.1973

'For Women's Studies at Adelaide University (Politics Dept.)'

Roneoed TS

4

8

Women's Studies Course 1973

   

1.01.1973

Course outlines, typed notes, press clippings

File

4

9

Women's Studies and Feminism 1985

   

1.01.1985

Course outlines, bibliographies etc.

File

4

10

Women's Studies at Flinders 1981-3

Philosophy Dept. file

 

21.10.1991

Correspondence, reports, press clippings

File

5

1

Macquarie Papers in Women's Studies 1989:1

Women's Studies Committee, Macquarie University

Macquarie University, Women's Studies Committee. ISSN 1033-5935

1.01.1989

 

Periodical

5

2

Women's Studies in other universities

   

1.12.1985

Macquarie University, Adelaide University

Booklets

5

3

The Violet Pages: a Women's Studies research directory 1985 and 1988

Coltheart, Lenore; Shirley Fitzgerald; Bronwyn Davies

University of Sydney for The Violet Pages. ISBN 0731623371 (1988)

1.01.1985

 

Booklets

5

4

Women's Studies Postgraduate Handbook

     

Undated, post 2005

Booklet

5

5

Undergraduate Courses 1987-2006 (extra copies)

   

1.01.1987

 

File

5

6

Memo from Valda Jukums to Susan Sheridan re 1994 Annual Report

Jukums, Valda

 

24.01.1995

 

Memorandum

5

7

Women's Studies Resource Centre Newsletters

WSRC

Vol. 14 (2) 1988, Vol. 18 (2) 1992, Vol. 19(1) 1993

1.07.1988

 

Periodicals

5

8

Equity Matters: Newsletter of the SA Equal Opportunity Commission

Equal Opportunity Commission, SA

March 1999

1.01.1999

 

Periodical

5

9

Submission to the Review of the Women's Studies Unit

Women's Studies Unit, Flinders University

April 1996

1.04.1996

 

Booklet

5

10

Report of the Review of Courses: Graduate Diploma in Gender Studies, Master of Arts (Women's Studies), Graduate Diploma in International Development, Master of Arts (International Development)

Flinders University

July 2004

1.08.2004

 

Booklet

5

11

Report of the Working Party on Women's Studies

Flinders University

N.D. (post 1983)

1.01.1984

 

Booklet

5

12

Annual reports

Women's Studies unit

 

1.01.1991

Annual Reports 1991-2000

File

5

13

Review of WS Unit

   

11.01.1996

Memo re Academic plan: Submission from WS Unit; Report of Review of WS Unit; WS Unit response to Report

File

5

14

WS Developments, topic proposals 1987, 1994, 1995

   

1.01.1987

Memos

File

5

15

41201 - Course planning, drafts etc. 1986

   

11.09.1986

Correspondence between Lyndall Ryan and Sue Sheridan, course outlines

File

5

16

41201 - Course books etc. 1987-9, 1999, 2000

   

1.01.1987

 

File

5

17

Honours and Postgraduate Women's Studies inter-university cooperation

   

1.01.1999

 

File

5

18

Joint Honours and MA topis wtih Adelaide 1994

   

28.04.1994

Correspondence

File

5

19

MA Women's Studies 1988 (SACAE)

   

8.09.1989

Memo and proposal

File

5

20

WMST 1001 - Introduction to Women's Studies 1997-8 Course guides

   

1.01.1997

Course guides

File

5

21

Report of the Review of the Women's Studies Unit, Flinders University, 1994

Bulbeck, Chilla

 

1.07.1996

 

Booklet

5

22

List of files; emails re transfer of collection to Library 2008

   

28.10.2006

 

File

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