Isobelle Barrett Meyering

Experience

• 2018–present
  Research Fellow, Department of History and Archaeology, Macquarie University
• 2016–2017
  Course Convenor, School of Humanities and Langauges, UNSW Australia
• 2016–2017
  Research Assistant, University of Wollongong
• 2014–2015
  Postgraduate Teaching Fellow, School of Humanities and Languages, UNSW Australia
• 2009–2013
  Research Assistant, Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse, UNSW Australia
• 2010–2010
  Tutor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
• 2008–2009
  Research Assistant, Department of History, University of Sydney
• 2007–2007
  Coder, Workplace Research Centre, University of Sydney

Education

• 2017 
  UNSW, PhD
• 2009 
  University of Sydney, Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours)

Publications

• 2022
  Feminism and the Making of a Child Rights Revolution, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne
• 2021
  Children's rights, the family and 'sexual permissiveness': conservative mobilisations and the Australian response to International Year of the Child (1979), Australian Historical Studies, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 348-366
• 2019
  Changing consciousness, changing lifestyles: Australian women's liberation, the left and the politics of 'personal solutions', In: The far left in Australia since 1945 (edited by J Piccini, E Smith & M Worley, Routledge, London/New York, pp. 153-170
• 2019
  The Margaret Bailey case: high school activism, the right to education and modern citizenship in late 1960s Australia, History of Education Review, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 183-197
• 2018
  2010: another hung parliament, In: Elections matter: ten federal elections that shaped Australia (edited by B Jones, F Bongiorno & J Uhr), Monash University Publishing, Melbourne, pp. 222-248
• 2018
  Feminism in Sydney's suburbs: 'speaking out', listening and 'sisterhood' at the 1975 Women's Commissions, Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 33, no. 95, pp. 61-80
• 2016
  Germaine Greer’s “arch enemy”: Arianna Stassinopoulos’ 1974 Australian tour, Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 31, no. 87, pp. 43-61
• 2013
  The gender debate in domestic violence: the role of data, Issues Paper 25, Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse, Sydney [co-authored with Rochelle Braaf]
• 2013
  Liberating children: the Australian women’s liberation movement and children’s rights in the 1970s, Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 19, pp. 60-74
• 2013
  “There must be a better way”: motherhood and the dilemmas of feminist lifestyle change, Outskirts: Feminisms Along the Edge, vol. 28
• 2011
  Seeking security: promoting women’s economic wellbeing following domestic violence, Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse, Sydney [co-authored with Rochelle Braaf]
• 2010
  Victim compensation and domestic violence: a national overview, Stakeholder Paper 8, Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse, Sydney
• 2010
  Abolitionism, settler violence and the case against flogging, History Australia, vol. 7, issue 1, pp. 6.1–6.18

Professional Memberships

• Australian Historical Association

Research Areas

• Gender Specific Studies (169901)
• Social Policy (160512)
• Australian History (Excl. Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander History) (210303)