Eureka's Women: An Intimate History of Sex, Class and Culture on the Victorian Goldfields

该项目将首次系统研究女性在澳大利亚历史上的标志性事件——尤里卡寨子中的作用。这项研究将通过为一个熟悉的故事提供独特的性别视角，挑战尤里卡被普遍认为是一个超级男性化的故事——男性激情的燃烧，男性流血，男性选举权的赢得。我的假设是，女性与尤里卡的事件密切相关，不可分割，就像她们更普遍地参与维多利亚时代金矿的政治和文化生活一样。研究结果将有助于持续辩论尤里卡故事对澳大利亚身份、公民身份和民主的意义。

This project will be the first systematic study of the role of women in an iconic event in Australian history - the Eureka Stockade. The research will challenge the prevailing representation of Eureka as a hyper-masculine episode - male passions inflamed, male blood shed, manhood suffrage won - by providing a unique gender perspective to a familiar narrative. My hypothesis is that women were intimately and inextricably involved in the events at Eureka, as they were more generally in the political and cultural life of the Victorian goldfields. The research findings will contribute to ongoing debates about the meaning of the Eureka story for Australian identity, citizenship and democracy.