Dr Catherine Kevin (PhD) Lecturer

Postal Address: Department of History Faculty of Social Sciences Flinders University GPO Box 2100 Adelaide SA 5001 Telephone: (+61) (08) 82015553 Fax: (+61) (08) 8201 3350 E-mail: Catherine.Kevin@flinders.edu.au Location: Room 327 Social Sciences South

Dr Catherine Kevin is a lecturer in Australian History.

Main research interests:
The histories of Australian reproductive medicine, reproductive politics, Australian feminism, Italian immigration to Australia

Works in progress:
Catherine is currently working on a monograph entitled Great Expectations: A political history of pregnancy in Australia (since 1945)

She is also editing a collection of essays called Feminism and the Body, Interdisciplinary
Perspectives

Catherine is co-editing Branding Cities and Cultural Borders: Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism, and Social Change with Stephanie Hemelryk Donald (UTS) and Eleonore Kofman (Middlesex)

Selected publications:
‘Sex, race and pulling on a rope: Grantly Dick-Read’s Twentieth Century Woman’ in Catherine Kevin (ed) Feminism and the Body, Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, 2008

‘Looking out for Girls, a feminist reading of Somersault’, Studies in Australasian Cinema (forthcoming)

"Subjects for Citizenship: Pregnancy and the Australian Nation, 1945-2000." ReVisions of Australia: Histories, Images, Identities, Special edition of Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 12.2, Autumn 2006

‘Forming Families on the Reproductive Frontier’, Griffith Review, Autumn 2005, ISSN 1448-2924.

‘Maternity and Freedom: Australian Feminist Encounters with the Reproductive Body’, Australian Feminist Studies, Vol. 20, No 46, March 2005, ISSN 0816-4649

‘The Melocco brothers’, Christopher Cunneen et al (Eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography: Supplement 1580-1980, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria, 2005, pp273-274, ISBN 0 522 85214 9

A History of Italian Settlement in New South Wales, The NSW Heritage Office, 1998, with Roslyn Pesman.