Barbara Caine is an Australian feminist historian.
Biography She was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, then her family settled in Australia in 1960. Since 2015 she has been the Head of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney. She has written extensively on British and Australian women's history, and has written biographies of a number of historical figures, including the Strachey family and the Webb family.
Caine researches and writes in the fields of nineteenth-century studies, women's history and biography and life-writing. She is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and the British Royal Historical Society.
Caine established the first Women's Studies Centre in Australia at the University of Sydney, and oversaw its development into a Department of Women's Studies.
Awards and honours In 2014, Caine became a member of the Order of Australia "for significant service to tertiary education, particularly gender studies, and as a role model and mentor"."Queen's Birthday honours: full list". Sydney Morning Herald. 9 June 2014
Bibliography
Books
Victorian Feminists, 1992, Oxford University Press Destined to be wives: the sisters of Beatrice Webb, 1996, Clarendon Press English Feminism 1780-1980, 1997, Oxford University Press Gendering European History: 1780-1920 (with Glenda Sluga), 2000, Leicester University PressJackson, Peter . "Book review: Gendering European History 1780—1920". University of Newcastle Australia Bombay to Bloomsbury: a Biography of the Strachey family, 2005, Oxford University Press Biography and History, 2010, Palgrave Macmillan UK
Edited books
Crossing Boundaries: Feminism and the Critique of Knowledges (with Marie de Lepervanche), 1988, Allen and Unwin Transitions: new Australian feminisms (with Rosemary Pringle), 1995, Allen and Unwin Australian Feminism: a Companion (with Moira Gatens, Emma Grahame, Jan Larbalestier, Sophie Watson, Elizabeth Webby), 1999, Oxford University Press Companion to Women's Historical Writing (with Mary Spongberg and Ann Curthoys), 2005, Palgrave Macmillan Friendship: A History, 2009, Equinox Publishing Ltd
References
External links Barbara Caine at Sydney University BBC interview on five hundred years of friendship <http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03zdbrl> ABC interview on the relationship between biography and history<http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bookshow/biography-and-history/2930992> Australian Academy of the Humanities <https://web.archive.org/web/20130411071612/http://humanities.org.au/Fellowship/FindFellows/tabid/123/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1080/Caine-Barbara.aspx> Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia <http://www.assa.edu.au/fellowship/fellow/513>British Royal Historical Society <https://web.archive.org/web/20140201213104/http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/rhsfellows-c.pdf>