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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0451132
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Eureka's Women: An Intimate History of Sex, Class and Culture on the Victorian Goldfields. This project will be the first systematic study of the role of women in an iconic event in Australian history - the Eureka Stockade. The research will challenge the prevailing representation of Eureka as a hyper-masculine episode - male passions inflamed, male blood shed, manhood suffrage won - by providing a unique gender perspective to a familiar narrative. My hypothesis is that women were intimately and inextricably involved in the events at Eureka, as they were more generally in the political and cultural life of the Victorian goldfields. The research findings will contribute to ongoing debates about the meaning of the Eureka story for Australian identity, citizenship and democracy.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 03-2004
End Date: 12-2010
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $220,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Historical Studies | History: Australian | Culture, Gender, Sexuality
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
