Internationalising Lilith, localising diverse feminist pasts

• Published in: Lilith: A Feminist History Journal
• Main Authors: Moore, Alison (R16976), Roberts, Saskia, Carson, Emma, Smith, Zoe, Skibinski, Connie, Killoran, Tianna, Syyed, Huda, Andresen, Bridget
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canberra, A.C.T., ANU Press 2023
• Subjects: 430309 - Gender history; 280113 - Expanding knowledge in history; heritage and archaeology; First Nations
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.22459/LFHJ.29.00; https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:74142

The 2023 volume of Lilith is the first to be produced under the Managing Editorship of Alison Downham Moore, a global, medical, sexuality and gender historian from Western Sydney University who took over in September 2022 from Alana Piper. While Lilith has always been open to contributors from different world regions and authors working on any geographical or temporal field of historical studies, this volume evinces an enrichment of Lilith’s commitment to diversity and global scope, while still maintaining its important base for emerging scholarship in Australian feminist historical studies. The past year has seen the Lilith Editorial Collective welcome several new members who have contributed to this introduction and shepherded the articles contained in this volume of the journal. We have also farewelled others, including Rachel Caines, Brydie Kosmina, Lauren Samuelsson, Jennifer Caligari, Kate Davison and Michelle Staff, whom we thank heartily for their service. Moore’s editorial stewardship and the new collective bring both a renewed commitment to encouraging underrepresented voices in historical writing, including First Nations voices, providing additional support for scholars with first languages other than English, and extending a new experimental invitation to consider works of scholarship in novel genres of writing for academic journals.