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Dr

Carla Pascoe Leahy

Honorary
Historical and Philosophical Studies
oral history
motherhood
childhood
family
place
environment
sustainability
ethics
heritage
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The experience of becoming a mother in Australia since 1945.

By investigating experiences of becoming a mother in Australia since 1945, this project intends to provide an historical perspective on moth..

2016 - 2022
Completed
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The experience of becoming a mother in Australia since 1945.

By investigating experiences of becoming a mother in Australia since 1945, this project intends to provide an historical perspective on moth..

2016 - 2022
Completed

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Project Types

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Internal Research Grant

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Research Grant

Scholarly Works

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Care, Mothering and the Academy: Making the Invisible Visible

Emilee Gilbert, Sarah Knott, Carla Pascoe Leahy

Journal article  |  2021  |  GENDER AND HISTORY

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The afterlife of interviews: explicit ethics and subtle ethics in sensitive or distressing qualitative research

Carla Pascoe Leahy

Journal article  |  2021  |  QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

When conducting interviews about sensitive subject matter such as family life, powerful emotions may arise. The kinds of unexpecte..

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Maternal heritage: remembering mothering and motherhood through material culture

Carla Pascoe Leahy

Journal article  |  2021  |  International Journal of Heritage Studies

New motherhood is mediated through the material world. In this liminal, vulnerable period of matrescence, consumption of and inter..

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Review of "Home, nature, and the feminine ideal: Geographies of the interior and of empire", by Elaine Stratford

Carla Pascoe Leahy

Journal article  |  2021  |  Geographical Research

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The Mother Within: Intergenerational Influences Upon Australian Matrescence Since 1945

Carla Pascoe Leahy

Journal article  |  2020  |  Past & Present

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Parenting through crisis: the impacts of fire and pandemic upon Australian family life

Carla Eileen Pascoe Leahy

Recorded or Rendered Work  |  2020

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'The last generation: environmental activism and the history and future of the family

Carla Eileen Pascoe Leahy

Recorded or Rendered Work  |  2020

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Sustainable academia: The way forward

Carla Eileen Pascoe Leahy

Recorded or Rendered Work  |  2020

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Working paper on sustainable history: the responsibilities of academic historians in a climate-impacted world

Andrea Gaynor, Carla Eileen Pascoe Leahy, Ruth Morgan, Daniel May, Yves Rees

Report  |  2020

This working paper was produced in early 2020 to start a conversation about how academic historians can help to address the climat..

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Public histories and private struggles: the place of Janet McCalman’s Struggletown in Australian historiography

C Pascoe Leahy

Journal article  |  2019  |  History Australia

On the 35th anniversary of the publication of Struggletown: Public and Private Life in Richmond 1900–1965, this article explores t..

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Keyword Analysis

Historical Studies
Expanding Knowledge
Understanding Past Societies
Other Human Society
Heritage
Heritage, Archive and Museum Studies
Gender Studies
Demography
Education Systems
Sociology

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Women leading the fight against climate change

Jacqueline Peel, Kathyrn Bowen, Belle Workman, Rebekkah Markey-Towler, Carla Pascoe Leahy

Late last month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Working Group II released its latest report, warning of increasing ..

March 7, 2022
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Maternal metamorphosis: how mothering has changed in Australia since the second world war

Carla Pascoe Leahy

When I first became a mother in 2013, I realised my experiences of motherhood did not match the kinds of messages circulating around me. ..

January 17, 2022
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Looking for the perfect Mother's Day gift? Why not smash the patriarchy

Carla Pascoe Leahy

Mothers have often been associated with conservatism: linked to cloyingly sentimental cultural ideals or depicted as victims of patriarchal..

May 6, 2021
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Mothers explain how they navigated work and childcare, from the 1970s to today

Carla Pascoe Leahy

Over the past few decades of Australian life, government policies have gradually offered more support to working mothers, particularly thro..

May 27, 2019
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Does gender equality suffer when women get menstrual leave?

Carla Pascoe Leahy

There’s nothing like a whiff of taboo to make news media outlets and social media erupt with vitriolic debate. Mention menstruation in popu..

March 3, 2016
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The ongoing taboo of menstruation in Australia

Carla Pascoe Leahy

Ask any young woman whether she feels embarrassed by her periods and she’ll likely deny it. Her grandmother might have hidden all evidence ..

February 2, 2016
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Credentials

Positions

Honorary

Historical and Philosophical Studies

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Arts (Honours)

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Laws

University of Melbourne

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