Archives and New Modes of Feminist Research

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.

• 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

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".