Barbara Caine

 ( Living People ) 

Barbara Caine is an Australian feminist historian.

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Biography She was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, then her family settled in Australia in 1960. Since 2015 she has been the Head of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney. 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,

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.

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.

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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". "Queen's Birthday honours: full list". Sydney Morning Herald. 9 June 2014

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Bibliography

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Books

• Victorian Feminists, 1992, Oxford University Press
  (2026). 9780813922324, University of Virginia Press. . ISBN 9780813922324
  Kathryn Bond Stockton (1994). 9780804723442, Stanford University Press. . ISBN 9780804723442
• Destined to be wives: the sisters of Beatrice Webb, 1996, Clarendon Press
  Helena Michie (2006). 9781139462969, Cambridge University Press. . ISBN 9781139462969
• English Feminism 1780-1980, 1997, Oxford University Press
  (2026). 9780754655725, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. . ISBN 9780754655725
• Gendering European History: 1780-1920 (with Glenda Sluga), 2000, Leicester University PressJackson, Peter . "Book review: Gendering European History 1780—1920". University of Newcastle Australia
• Bombay to Bloomsbury: a Biography of the Strachey family, 2005, Oxford University Press
• Biography and History, 2010, Palgrave Macmillan UK
  David Dean (2014). 9781137393890, Palgrave Macmillan. . ISBN 9781137393890

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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

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External links

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

ABC interview on the relationship between biography and history

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Categories: Living People, 1948 Births, Australian Historians, Australian Women Historians, University Of Sydney Alumni, Monash University Alumni, Members Of The Order Of Australia, Fellows Of The Academy Of The Social Sciences In Australia, Fellows Of The Royal Historical Society, Fellows Of The Australian Academy Of The Humanities

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