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Personal History

Marian Quartly studied at Adelaide and Monash Universities, and her first appointment was at the University of Western Australia. She has taught at Monash since 1980. She has served as editor of Australian Historical Studies, and is currently editing the recently founded History Australia, the journal of the Australian Historical Association. Her research has ranged across nineteenth century Australia, covering the history of nationalism, the family, religion, and the construction of male and female sexualities. Currently she is investigating various aspects of the history of gendered white citizenship in the twentieth century. She is also involved in a longterm attempt to write a historical novel around the history of her fictionalised family.

Current Research

My research ranges across a number of areas; the common link is the idea and the experience of Australian citizenship - the ways in which white Australians have understood their relationship to the state and the nation. I have published and presented as conference papers several studies of visual representations of types of Australian male citizens - workers, employers, and soldiers. I am also interested in the histories of conservative women's organisations, and the ideas of their members about women's citizenship; I am undertaking with Judy Smart a history of the National Council of Women. And with Denise Cuthbert, Shurlee Swain, Kate Murphy and a broad support group, I am undertaking an ARC-supported history of adoption in Australia, with the aim of giving voice to all the various parties affected by the adoption process, and of assessing their experience with an eye to current policy formation.

Major Publications

Books
Drawing the Line: Using Cartoons as Historical Evidence (editor with Richard Scully) Monash University ePress, Melbourne, 2009.
Creating a Nation (one of four writers) McPhee Gribble/Penguin, Melbourne, 1994 (new edition API Network, 2006)
Freedom Bound I: Documents on women in colonial Australia (one of three editors) Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1995
Stepping out of history: documents of women at work in Australia, ed., Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1991. (with J. Damousi) pp. 194.
Australians 1838, (coeditor and major contributor), Fairfax, Syme & Weldon, Sydney 1987, pp. 474.
Westralian Voices: Documents in Western Australian Society History,(editor and contributor), U.W.A. Press, 1979, pp. 331.
Lillydale, the Billanook Country, Gray Hunt, Melbourne, 1972, pp. 130.

Articles
'Making the National Councils of Women National: The Formation of a Nation-wide Organisation in Australia 1896–1931', (with Judith Smart) in Irma Sulkunen, Pirjo Markkola, and Seija-Leena Nevala-Nurmi (eds), Suffrage, Gender and Citizenship: International Perspectives on Parliamentary Reform, Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge, 2008, pp. 339-357.
'Using cartoons as historical evidence', (with Richard Scully) in Scully and Quartly (eds), Drawing the Line: Using Cartoons as Historical Evidence Monash University ePress, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 01.1-01.13.
'"All the world over"; The transnational worlds of Australian radical and labour cartoonists, 1880s to 1920', (with Nick Dyrenfurth) in Scully and Quartly, (eds), Drawing the Line: Using Cartoons as Historical Evidence Monash University ePress, Melbourne, 2009, pp.06.1-06.47.
'Political Representations of Adoption in Australia, 2005–2007', (with Kate Murphy, and Denise Cuthbert Adoption and Culture, vol. 1, no. 2, 2009.

Chapters and Journal Articles
'The National Council of women of Victoria suffrage and political citizenship 1904-14', Victorian Historical Journal, 2008.
'Fat man v. 'The people': Labour intellectuals and the making of oppositional identities, 1890-1901', Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 2007, pp. 31-56.
'Nationhood as represented in images of Australian soldiers published in newspapers and journals juring the First World War', Australian Studies, British Australian Studies Association, 2007, pp. 291-318.
'Into the new millenium', Creating a Nation, API Network, Perth, Western Australia, 2006, pp. 309-325.
'The Australian Women's National League and Democracy, 1904-1921',Women's History Review, vol 15, no. 1, March 2006, pp. 35-50.
'Making Working-Class Heroes: Labor Cartoonists and the Australian Worker, 1903-1916', Labour History, no.89, November 2005
'Muscles and manhood: Labor cartoonists and the Australian worker', When Journalism Meets History: Refereed papers from the Australian Media Traditions conference 2003, Informit eLibrary, 2004.
'Defending "the purity of home life" against Socialism: the Founding Years of the Australian Women's National League,' The Australian Journal of Politics and History, June 2004, vol. 50, no.2.
'Women Citizens of the New Nation: Reading Some Visual Evidence', Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, November 2002.
'Victoria', in The Centenary Companion to Australian Federation, ed. Helen Irving, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1999.
'The ANA's Bendigo Banquet: A Democratic Moment?' The New Federalist, no. 3, June 1999.
'Alexander Hasluck, Historian' in Paul Hasluck in Australian History, ed. T. Stannage et al, University of Queensland Press, 1999.
'John and Charlotte Bussell; Authority and Affection', For Richer For Poorer:Australian Marriages, ed. P.Russell, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1993.
'Mothers & Fathers and Brothers & Sisters: The AWA and the ANA and Gendered Citizenship',in R. Howe (ed.),Women and the State: Australian Perspectives, La Trobe University Press, Bundoora, 1993.
'Bending the Bars: Convict Women and the State', in K. Saunders & R.Evans (eds), Gender Relations in Australia: Domination and Negotiation, Harcourt Brace Janovich, Sydney 1992.
'Imagining New South Wales as a gendered society, 1782 1821', Australian Historical Studies, 98, April 1992.
'History, Archive & Celebrations of Nationality' Archives and Manuscripts vol. 19, no. 2, November 1991.

Areas of Research & Supervision

Australian social, political, and religious history; women's history and gender history.

Completed Theses
Richard Peterson, 'Jessie Vasey: the making of a conservative feminist.' (PhD 2009) Lynda Carroll, 'For The Red and The Blue: A Social History of the Melbourne Football Club.' (PhD 2008, joint supervision)
Beau Collins, 'Voluntary Associations for Victorian Children 1872-1910.' (PhD 2008)
Nick Dyrenfurth, 'Heroes and Villains: the Cultural Politics of Australian Labour, 1878-1918.' (PhD 2008)
Josephine Dunin, 'Canaries in a Mine'. Post Release Support for Young Offenders in Melbourne 1964-1981. (MA 2008)
Kate Murphy, 'Gender and the Rural-Urban Divide: Fears and Fantasies of the Australian Elite, 1900-1930.' (PhD 2007)
Brenda Joyce, 'Civil Wedding Ceremonies in Contemporary Australia: Secular or Sacred?'. (MA 2007)

Teaching

No teaching commitments.