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.
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 |
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2 |
2 |
Women's Studies handbooks |
1.01.1995 |
Information Handbook 1995, Undergraduate Handbook 2002, 2006, Honours Handbook 2006, Postgraduate handbook 2006 |
File |
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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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