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End date: 2017 × Start date: 2017 × Type: Honours thesis × Subject: women's history ×

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    Death, devotion, and despair: examining women’s authorial contributions to the early modern English ars moriendi
    Bigaran, Ilaria Meri ( 2017)
    This thesis examines women’s intervention into the English ars moriendi genre over the course of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It focuses on three printed works: Rachel Speght’s 'Mortalities Memorandum, with a Dreame Prefixed' (1621), Alice Sutcliffe’s 'Meditations of Man's Mortalitie, Or, A Way to True Blessednesse' (1634), and Lady Frances Norton’s 'Memento Mori: or Mediations on Death' (1705). Expanding upon previous research in this field, this thesis provides the first comparative historical study of all three texts and their authors. It frames these printed works both as meditations on religious practice, and as carefully constructed responses to contemporary debates concerning religious expression, female authority in matters of devotion, learning, and authorship, and cultural standards of appropriate emotional expression.
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    The opening bounce: women playing Australian Rules Football 1915-1955
    Croci, Danielle Renee ( 2017)
    This thesis examines the conditions under which women began to play Australian Rules football in the early twentieth century. The first scheduled games would be played in Perth during the Great War, organised through workplaces to raise war funds. The suspension of men’s football and patriotic fervour created momentum for a small number of women to play. The world wars' interruption of traditional gender roles, with many women moving into the workforce, may have shifted social attitudes to allow them to play a historically masculine sport. However, men controlled the sport’s organisation through their positions as employers or beneficiaries of charity. When women’s participation no longer suited their needs, competitions appeared to disintegrate. Contemporary newspaper articles highlight these attitudes that formed around women’s football and affected its development. Praising women for participating was matched with derision as well as emphasis on the novelty of the concept. Analysing these cultural factors provides a more nuanced understanding of the precarious existence of women’s football in Australia up to the 1950s.