Barbara Caine Explained

Barbara Caine
Birth Date:	2 April 1948
Birth Place:	South Africa
Nationality:	Australian
Known For:	Women History
Education:	Ph D Monash University
Alma Mater:	University of Sydney
Employer:	University of Sydney
Occupation:	Historian & Professor

Barbara Caine is an Australian feminist historian.^[1]

Biography

She was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, then her family settled in Australia in 1960.^[2] Since 2015 she has been the Head of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney.^[3] She has written extensively on British and Australian women's history, and has written biographies of a number of historical figures, including the Strachey family and the Webb family.

Caine researches and writes in the fields of nineteenth-century studies,^[4] women's history and biography and life-writing. She is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and the British Royal Historical Society.^[5]

Caine established the first Women's Studies Centre in Australia at the University of Sydney, and oversaw its development into a Department of Women's Studies.

Awards and honours

In 2014, Caine became a member of the Order of Australia "for significant service to tertiary education, particularly gender studies, and as a role model and mentor".^[6]

Bibliography

Books

• Victorian Feminists, 1992, Oxford University Press^{[7] [8]}
• Destined to be wives: the sisters of Beatrice Webb, 1996, Clarendon Press^[9]
• English Feminism 1780-1980, 1997, Oxford University Press^[10]
• Gendering European History: 1780-1920 (with Glenda Sluga), 2000, Leicester University Press^[11]
• Bombay to Bloomsbury: a Biography of the Strachey family, 2005, Oxford University Press
• Biography and History, 2010, Palgrave Macmillan UK^[12]

Edited books

• Crossing Boundaries: Feminism and the Critique of Knowledges (with Marie de Lepervanche), 1988, Allen and Unwin
• Transitions: new Australian feminisms (with Rosemary Pringle), 1995, Allen and Unwin
• Australian Feminism: a Companion (with Moira Gatens, Emma Grahame, Jan Larbalestier, Sophie Watson, Elizabeth Webby), 1999, Oxford University Press
• Companion to Women's Historical Writing (with Mary Spongberg and Ann Curthoys), 2005, Palgrave Macmillan
• Friendship: A History, 2009, Equinox Publishing Ltd

External links

• Barbara Caine at Sydney University
  • BBC interview on five hundred years of friendship

ABC interview on the relationship between biography and history

• Australian Academy of the Humanities
• Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia British Royal Historical Society

Notes and References

1. Book: Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza. Empowering Memory and Movement: Thinking and Working Across Borders. 1 May 2014. Augsburg Fortress Pub. 978-1-4514-8181-5. 353–.
2. Web site: Sharon M. Harrison . Caine, Barbara (1948-) . The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia . 2 May 2014 .
3. Web site: Professor Barbara Caine. Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, University of Sydney. 1 August 2017.
4. Book: Ben Griffin. The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain: Masculinity, Political Culture and the Struggle for Women's Rights. 12 January 2012. Cambridge University Press. 978-1-107-01507-4. 61–.
5. Web site: Fellows: Barbara Caine. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210322153337/https://www.humanities.org.au/fellows/fellows/?find_contact_id=1111 . 22 March 2021 . 2021-01-22. Australian Academy of the Humanities. en-AU.
6. http://www.smh.com.au/national/queens-birthday-honours-full-list-20140608-39rfw.html "Queen's Birthday honours: full list"
7. Book: Emily Davies. Ann B. Murphy. Deirdre Raftery. Emily Davies: Collected Letters, 1861-1875. 2004. University of Virginia Press. 978-0-8139-2232-4. 51–.
8. Book: Kathryn Bond Stockton. God Between Their Lips: Desire Between Women in Irigaray, Brontë, and Eliot. 1994. Stanford University Press. 978-0-8047-2344-2. 78–.
9. Book: Helena Michie. Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal. 21 December 2006. Cambridge University Press. 978-1-139-46296-9. 117–.
10. Book: Anthony Howe. Simon Morgan. Rethinking Nineteenth-century Liberalism: Richard Cobden Bicentenary Essays. 2006. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. 978-0-7546-5572-5. 229–.
11. Jackson, Peter . "Book review: Gendering European History 1780—1920". University of Newcastle Australia
12. Book: David Dean. History, Memory, Performance. 4 December 2014. Palgrave Macmillan. 978-1-137-39389-0. 83–.