Prof Alison Mackinnon

Prof Alison Mackinnon

School of Society and Culture

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Science

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Welcome to the home page of Alison Mackinnon AM. Alison Mackinnon was appointed Professor of History and Gender Studies in 1997. She was the Foundation Director of the Hawke Research Institute (see link below) from 1997 to December 2005. She has retired from that position but will remain an Emeritus Professor within the University. Previously she was Director of the Institute for Social Research (1994–1999) and Director, University Research Development (1996–1998). She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the convener of the SA branch of the Academy. On January 26th 2009 she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).
From August to November 2000 she was a Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre, ANU and she returned to the HRC as a Visiting Fellow in August and September 2006. She was a Research Fellow at the Research School for Social Sciences, ANU, Canberra, in 1993-94, where she coordinated the gender strand of the 'Reshaping Australian Institutions project: towards and beyond 2001'. She is an Associate of the Research School of Social Sciences, affiliated with the Australian Centre for Population Research.She is a past president of the Australian New Zealand History of Education Society.
In November 2000 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Umeå, Sweden. From February to July 2002 she was the Kerstin Hesselgren Guest Professorship at the Centre for Population Studies at the University of Umeå, Sweden, an appointment of the Swedish Research Council.She is currently an Advisory Board Member of the Ageing and Life Conditions project at the Centre for Population Studies at Umea University. In March 2004 she visited the University of Victoria, British Columbia, to lecture in the Lansdowne Lecture Series Program. She was a board member of the History Trust of South Australia from 2004 to 2013 and of the International Federation for Research in Women's History, and was President of the History Council of South Australia from 2005-2008.In 2005 she was invited to deliver the six Clare Burton Memorial Lectures, a lecture series established to commemorate the work of Clare Burton, a specialist in gender equity and organizational change.In March 2006 she was awarded the title of Emeritus Professor. In 2014 she was appointed to the Heritage Council of South Australia.

Women's social history; history of education; history of women's higher education; higher education and family formation; feminist and interdisciplinary perspectives on demography; feminist theory; changing relations between the sexes; academic women and restructuring, ageing in historical perspective.The changing cultures of work and responsibility in globalising societiesThe politics and demography of population change, population ageing

Year Citation
2015 Anderson, M., & Mackinnon, A. (2015). Women's agency in Australia's first fertility transition: a debate revisited. History of the family, 21(1), 9-23.
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2006 Mackinnon, A. G., & Gregory, P. (2006). A study corner in the kitchen : Australian graduate women negotiate family, nation and work in the 1950s and early 1960s. Australian historical studies, 37(127), 63-80.
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2006 Mackinnon, A. G. (2006). Girls, society and school : a generation of change?. Australian feminist studies, 21(50), 275-288.
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2006 Mackinnon, A. G. (2006). Fantasizing the family : women, families and the quest for an individual self. Women's history review, 15(4), 663-675.
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2005 Mackinnon, A. G., & Bullen, E. (2005). Out on the borderlands : time, generation and personal agency in women's lives. Theory and Research in Education.
2004 Mackinnon, A. G. (2004). Knowledge beyond reason : highly educated women and the continuing quest for commensurability. ACH: The Journal of the History of Culture in Australia.
2003 Mackinnon, A. G. (2003). In a class of their own? Swedish wormen school teachers and the fertility transition in the late 19th Century. Interchange: a quarterly review of education, 34(2-3), 281-296.
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2003 Mackinnon, A. G., Ranzijn, R., & Le Sueur, E. J. (2003). Bounded choices : how much choice is there in decision making for ageing populations?. Applied Population and Policy.
2001 King, D. S., & Mackinnon, A. G. (2001). Who cares? Community perceptions in the marketing of corporate citizenship. Journal of corporate citizenship, 233-249.
2000 Mackinnon, A. G. (2000). Bringing the unclothed immigrant into the world: Population policies and gender in Twentieth Century Australia. Journal of Population Research.
1999 Mackinnon, A. G. (1999). Shaking the foundations: on the (im)possibility of writing a history of women in higher education. History of Education Review.
1998 Allen, K. L., & Mackinnon, A. G. (1998). Allowed and expected to be educated and intelligent: the education of Quaker girls in nineteenth century England. History of Education.
1998 Mackinnon, A. G. (1998). Educated Doubt: Women, Religion and the Challenge of Higher Education, c. 1870-1920. Women's History Review.
1998 Allen, K. L., & Mackinnon, A. G. (1998). Allowed and expected to be educated and intelligent: the education of Quaker girls in nineteenth century England. History of Education.
1997 Mackinnon, A. G. (1997). 'My Dearest Friend': courtship & conjugality in some mid & late Nineteenth Century Quaker Families. Journal of Friends Historical Society.

Year Citation
2020 Mackinnon, A. (2020). Mothering reshaped: fertility decline, 'the selfishness of women' and the smaller family. In C. Leahy, & P. Bueskens (Eds.), Source details - Title: Australian Mothering: Historical and Sociological Perspectives (pp. 95-110). US: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2018 Mackinnon, A. (2018). 'And sweet girl-graduates'? From girl to woman through higher education. In M. Purvis (Ed.), Source details - Title: A history of the girl: formation, education and identity (pp. 201-223). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2013 Mackinnon, A. G., & Proctor, H. (2013). Education. In A. Bashford, & S. Macintyre (Eds.), Source details - Title: The Cambridge history of Australia - Volume 2: The Commonwealth of Australia (pp. 429-451). New York: Cambridge University Press.
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2012 Mackinnon, A. (2012). From women's history to women's policy: pathways and partnerships. In A. Bletsas (Ed.), Source details - Title: Engaging with Carol Bacchi: strategic interventions and exchanges (pp. 9-18). Australia: University of Adelaide Press.
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2012 Mackinnon, A. (2012). 'The Keystone of the Arch': university education and the leadership of early women graduates. In R. Francis, P. Grimshaw, & A. Standish (Eds.), Source details - Title: Seizing the initiative: women leaders in politics, workplaces and communities. Australia: The University of Melbourne.
2011 Mackinnon, A. (2011). Road maps or global positioning systems? Young people's lives in the twenty-first century: preparing for a global future through education and training. In T. Stehlik, & J. Patterson (Eds.), Source details - Title: Changing the paradigm: education is the key to a socially inclusive future (pp. 25-39). Australia: Post Pressed.
2011 O'Leary, P., Bishop, P., Mackinnon, A., & Robb, S. (2011). Caring for hope: the importance of hope for socially excluded young people. In T. Stehlik, & J. Patterson (Eds.), Source details - Title: Changing the paradigm: education is the key to a socially inclusive future (pp. 146-156). Mt Gravatt, Qld: Post Pressed.
2009 Brennan, M., Ramsay, E. M., Mackinnon, A. G., & Hodgetts, K. S. (2009). Part-time schooling. In K. Riele (Ed.), Source details - Title: Making schools different : alternative approaches to educating young people (pp. 116-125). UK: SAGE.
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2009 Mackinnon, A. G. (2009). Towards gender equality: two steps forward, one step back? Equal opportunity from Hawke to Rudd. In G. Bloustien (Ed.), Source details - Title: The Hawke legacy (pp. 45-56). Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press.
2009 Bloustien, G., Mackinnon, A., & Comber, B. (2009). Introduction - The Hawke legacy. In G. Bloustien, B. Combe, & A. Mackinnon (Eds.), Source details - Title: The Hawke legacy (pp. viii-xvii). Australia: Wakefield Press.
2009 Mackinnon, A. (2009). Swedish women school teachers and the fertility transition. In H. J. Graff (Ed.), Source details - Title: Understanding literacy in its historical contexts: socio-cultural history and the legacy of Egil Johansson (pp. 163-180). Sweden: Nordic Academic Press.
2007 Mackinnon, A. G., Batson, C. L., & Petersen Gray, J. (2007). "... But I'm so embarrassed, I said, if it's another baby!" : schooling, girls and declining fertility in urban South Australia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In Source details - Title: Gendering the fertility decline in the Western World (pp. 205-236). Bern ; Oxford: Peter Lang.
2007 Mackinnon, A. G. (2007). River memory : narratives of generation, hope and amnesia. In E. Potter (Ed.), Source details - Title: Fresh water : new perspectives on water in Australia (pp. 73-89). Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press.
2006 Mackinnon, A. G. (2006). "Giving myself a Toni, write thesis tonight" : negotiating higher education in the 1950s. In E. M. Smyth (Ed.), Source details - Title: Women teaching, women learning : historical perspectives (pp. 195-212). Toronto, Canada: Inanna Publications and Education.
2005 Mackinnon, A. G. (2005). Education. In Source details - Title: Companion to women's historical writing (pp. 130-140). UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
2001 Mackinnon, A. G., & Brooks, A. (2001). Globalization , Academia and Change. In A. Brooks, & A. Mackinnon (Eds.), Source details - Title: Gender and the Restructured University: Changing Management and Culture in Higher Education (1 ed.). UK: Open University Press.
2000 Mackinnon, A. G. (2000). The Streets and into the world beyond. In F. Gale (Ed.), Source details - Title: Making Space: Women and Eudcation at St Aloysius College Adelaide 1880-2000 (pp. 101-202). South Australia, Australia: Wakefield Press, Kentown.
2000 Mackinnon, A. G. (2000). Sexuality and Social Imaginaries: What does Women's History Say about the Declining Bithrate?. In L. -G. Tedebrand (Ed.), Source details - Title: Sex, State and Society Comparative Perspectives on the History of Sexuality. Almqvist & Wiksell International.
1998 Mackinnon, A. G. (1998). Revisting the Fin de Siecle: The Threat of the Educated Woman. In A. Mackinnon, I. Elgquist-Saltzman, & A. Prentice (Eds.), Source details - Title: Education into the 21st Century: Dangerous Terrain for Women? (pp. 9-19). London: Falmer Press.
1998 Mackinnon, A. G. (1998). Redesigning the Population: Narratives of sex and race. In M. Gatens, & A. Mackinnon (Eds.), Source details - Title: Gender and Institutions (pp. 149-166). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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