Introduction - Archives and New Modes of Feminist Research 1. Stains and Remains: Liveliness, Materiality, and the Archival Lives of Queer Bodies 2. Archiving Wimmen: Collectives, Networks, and Comix 3. Queering the Community Music Archive 4. Archiving the Other or Reading Online Photography as Queer Ephemera 5. Archives, Creative Memoirs, and Queer Counterpublic Histories: The Case for the Text-as-Record 6. The Australian Women’s Archives Project: Creating and Co-curating Community Feminist Archives in a Post-custodial Age 7. Decolonising Archives: Indigenous Challenges to Record Keeping in ‘Reconciling’ Settler Colonial States 8. Feminist Archiving [a manifesto continued]: Skilling for Activism and Organising 9. Documenting the Domestic: Chantal Akerman’s Experimental Autobiography as Archive 10. Of Archives and Architecture: Domestication, Digital Collections, and the Poetry of Mina Loy 11. Feminist Research Practices and Digital Archives 12. Silence in Noisy Archives: Reflections on Judith Allen’s ‘Evidence and Silence – Feminism and the Limits of History’ (1986) in the Era of Mass Digitisation
Biography
Maryanne Dever is a Professor and an Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Australia. She is joint Editor-in-Chief of Australian Feminist Studies. She has published widely in the areas of women’s and gender studies and critical archival studies.
Winner of the 2018 Mander Jones Award from the Australian Society of Archivists:
"An impressive scholarly work bringing together twelve thought-provoking and interesting essays which engage with a range of projects re-examining the practice of feminist archival research. These essays bring new perspectives to issues and concerns which are relevant to the broader archival community".
