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Blackwell Publishing

Australian Historical Studies edited by Joy Damousi & Australian Journal of Politics and History edited by Andrew G. Bonnell and Ian Ward

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April 2006, no. 280
Travis Cutler reviews 'Australian Historical Studies: Histories of Sexuality, Vol. 36, No. 126' edited by Joy Damousi, and 'Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 51, No. 2' edited by Andrew G. Bonnell and Ian Ward

A thematic offering on sexuality from Australian Historical Studies (AHS) and an assortment of political history from the Australian Journal of Politics & History (AJPH). The first promises a diverse collection of articles that ‘not only speak productively to each other but also provocatively continue the project of putting historically framed sexual questions, and sexually framed historical questions, into scholarly debate’ but actually delivers something more modest. The second lacks this kind of thematic ambition, yet manages to surprise us with the weight of its straightforward historical sensitivity.

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Media and Society in the Twentieth Century: A historical introduction by Lyn Gorman and David McLean

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May 2003, no. 251
Terry Flew reviews 'Media and Society in the Twentieth Century: A historical introduction' by Lyn Gorman and David McLean

Media history is an oddly underdeveloped area. Historians who work in media history are frequently reminded that such work exists at the margins of their discipline, and media does not feature at all in many accounts of political and social history. To take one example, Alastair Davidson’s otherwise impressive From Subject to Citizen: Australian citizenship in the twentieth century (1997) contains one reference to Rupert Murdoch’s citizenship, but none to the role of media in forming the identities of Australian citizens in the twentieth century.

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