Ann Curthoys – The Conversation

Left: Anne Summers working at women’s refuge Elsie. Elsie Conference, Lukas Coch/AAP

June 3, 2024

‘Groundhog Day’: 40 years of Australian government responses to domestic violence reveal a bumpy road to change

Zora Simic, UNSW ; Ann Curthoys, University of Sydney, and Catherine Kevin, Flinders University

This is not the first time domestic violence has been declared a national crisis. Australian governments first got seriously involved in 1985. What can the past 40 years teach us?

EP Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class brought narrative methods to bear on historical scholarship. Wellcome Trust/WIkimedia Commons

June 11, 2015

Historical texts as literature? We do well to praise EP Thompson

Ann Curthoys, University of Sydney

There’s no shortage of historical texts, but only a handful are lauded as literature. We can learn valuable lessons by revisiting EP Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class.

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