Selection of Publications of
the Central Project Team

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S. McGrath, These Women?, Sydney, New South Wales University Press, 1989.

_________ “Theology and Women’s History”, Compass – A review of topical theology, Vol.25, No. 4, Summer 1991.

_________ Catholic Orphanages 1890s – 1950s: Two case studies – St Brigid’s, Ryde and St Michael’s, Baulkham Hills, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol.77, Part 2, 1991.

_________ “Feminist and Pope: Mary Wollstonecraft and Pius VI”, The Australasian Catholic Record, Vol. LXIX, No.3, July 1992.

_________ “Mary Wollstonecraft: Natural Theologian?” Compass – A review of topical theology, Vol. 26, Spring, 1992.

_________ “Annie Golding – Feminist and Catholic, 1904”, Woman-Church: An Australian Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Spring, 1993, No.13.

__________ “Sexism and Catholic Education in 1909”, Catholic Schools Studies, Vol.66, No. 2. October, 1993.

__________ “Beyond Florence Nightingale and Caroline Chisholm: Women in Nineteenth Century Australian History”, Long Patient Struggle – Studies in the Role of Women in Australian Christianity, eds M. Hutchinson and E. Campion, Sydney, Centre for the Study of Australian Christianity, 1994.

_________ “Women in the Australian Church: An Historical Perspective” in Woman and and Man: One in Christ Jesus, Melbourne, Harper Collins Religious, 1999.

R.MacGinley, A Place of Springs: Queensland Presentation Sisters, 1900-1960, Brisbane, Leader Press, 1977.

_________ Roads to Sion: Presentation Sisters in Australia, 1866-1980, Boolarong Publications, 1983.

_________ From Donegal to the Darling Downs, Toowoomba, McDonnell & Rosbrook, 1987.

__________ The Church’s Mission in Australia, Melbourne, Collins Dove,1988.

__________ “Irish Women Religious in Modern Times” in Old Myths New Lights, edited by Jonathan Wooding, Brisbane, Queensland Irish Association, 1991.

__________ “Irish In Queensalnd: an overview”, in The Irish Emigrant Experience in Australia, edited by J.O’Brien and P.Travers, Dublin, Poolbeg Press, 1991.

__________ “History of Women’s Religious Institutes: socio-historical issues”, History of Women Religious Papers, Institute of Religious Studies, 1992.

__________ “Catholic Women’s Religious Institutes in Australia, 1838-1940: some considerations” in Long Patient Struggle: Studies in the Role of Women in Australian Society, edited by M. Hutchinson and E, Campion, Sydney, Centre for the Study of Australian Christianity, Macquarie University, 1994.

__________ A Dynamic of Hope: Institutes of Women Religious in Australia, Sydney, Crossing Press, 1996.

__________ “Irish Women Religious and Australian Social History”, Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, Vol.17, 1997.

K.Power,Veiled Desire: Augustine’s Writing on Women, London, Darton, Longman and Todd, 1995; New York, Continum Press, 1996.

________ “The Rehabilitation of Eve in the De Institutione uirginis of Ambrose of Milan,” Religion in the Ancient World: New Themes and Approaches, ed. Matthew Dillon, Amsterdam: Adolph Hakkert, 1997.

________ Heavenly Bodies: The Ambiguity of the Body in Religious Discourse and Practice, Adelaide, Charles Strong Trust, 1997.

________ “Philosophy. Medicine and Gender in the Ascetic Texts of Ambrose of Milan,” Ancient History in a Modern University, Vol.2, eds, T.W. Hillard, R.A.Kearsley, C.E.V. Nixon, and A.M. Nobbs, Grand Rapids, Michigan William B. Eerdmans, 1998.

_________ “Concubinage,” The Augustine Encyclopaedia, Villanova, Villanova Press, 1999.

_________ “The Sword of the Word” Studia Patristica XXXVIII, eds. M.F. Wiles and E. E. J. Yarnold (Peters Press), 2001.

_________ “From Ecclesiology to Mariology: Patristic Traces and Innovation in Speculum Virginum in Listen Daughter: The Speculum Virginum and the Formation of Religious Women in the Middle Ages, ed. Constant J. Mews, New York, Palgrave Press, 2001.

_________ “Eucharist as Holy Marriage: The Impact of Doctrine, Church Order and Social Relations,” in Eucharist: Experience and Testimony, ed., Tom Knowles, Melbourne, David Lovell, 2001.

_________ “Divine Women: Luce Irigaray and the Emergence of a Divine Horizon for Women,” in Australian Religious Studies Review, 14, 2 Spring, 2001: CD-ROM Presentation.