A history of women as consumers, 1902-2010

该项目旨在赋予妇女自己的自主历史，使其成为积极主动的消费者，改变家庭领域以外的空间。通过对菲律宾精英阶层和移民妇女的个案研究、妇女杂志、《移民档案》、访谈和人种学绘图，该项目将撰写一部20世纪女性消费实践对经济、商业和消费空间的影响的历史。该项目旨在挑战这样一种观点，即女性在菲律宾的经济史上处于边缘地位，或者对她们移民到的国家几乎没有影响力。这可能会提高澳大利亚在亚洲妇女领域的声誉，并促进国际合作。

This project aims to give women their own autonomous history as proactive consumers altering spaces outside the domestic sphere. Using a case study of Filipino elite and migrant women, and women’s magazines, ‘migrant archives’, interviews and ethnographic mapping, the project will write a history of the influence of women’s consumption practices on the economy, business and spaces of consumption in the twentieth century. The project aims to challenge the view of women as peripheral to the Philippines’ economic history or having little influence on countries to which they migrated. This could enhance Australia’s reputation in the field of women in Asia and foster international collaboration.