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Dr

Carla Pascoe Leahy

Arc Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
history
arts & humanities
motherhood
social sciences
australia
area studies
cultural studies
architecture
women's and gender studies
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Dr

Carla Pascoe Leahy

 
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Dr

Carla Pascoe Leahy

 

Carla Pascoe is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at the University of Melbourne and a Research Associate at Museum Victoria. Her research focuses on the histories and heritage of childhood, menstruation and motherhood in twentieth-century Australia.

Her publications include Spaces Imagined, Places Remembered: Childhood in 1950s Australia (2011) and Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage (2013) with Kate Darian-Smith. Her latest research project examines the history of becoming a mother in Australia from 1945 to the present.

Projects

Displaying the 2 most recent projects by Carla Pascoe Leahy.

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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 - 2021
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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 - 2021
Active

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Projects

Project Types

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Internal Research Grant

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Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 27 most recent scholarly works by Carla Pascoe Leahy.

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Australian Mothering: Historical and Sociological Perspectives

Book  |  2020

This collection defines the field of maternal studies in Australia for the first time. Leading motherhood researchers explore how ..

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Contextualising Australian Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood

Petra Bueskens, Carla Pascoe Leahy

Book Chapter  |  2020

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Defining Maternal Studies in Australia: The Birth of a Field

Petra Bueskens, Carla Pascoe Leahy

Book Chapter  |  2020

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Mothers-in-waiting: maternographies of pregnancy in Australia since 1945

Carla Eileen Pascoe Leahy

Book Chapter  |  2020

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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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Hearing children’s voices: conceptual and methodological challenges

Nell MUSGROVE, Carla Pascoe Leahy, Kristine MORUZI

Book Chapter  |  2019

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From the Little Wife to the Supermom? Maternographies of Feminism and Mothering in Australia since 1945

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Journal article  |  2019  |  Feminist Studies

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Selection and sampling methodologies in oral histories of mothering, parenting and family

Carla Eileen Pascoe Leahy

Journal article  |  2019  |  Oral History

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A history of playspaces

C Pascoe

Book Chapter  |  2017

Children's play has existed across every human culture and time period.1 However, the history of play spaces specially designed f..

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Home Is Where Mother Is: Ideals and Realities in Australian Family Houses of the 1950s

Carla Pascoe

Journal article  |  2017  |  Journal of Australian Studies

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Mum's the word: advice to Australian mothers since 1945

Carla Pascoe

Journal article  |  2015  |  Journal of Family Studies

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A 'Discreet Dance': technologies of menstrual management in Australian public toilets during the twentieth century

Carla Pascoe

Journal article  |  2015  |  Women's History Review

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Young People and the Shaping of Public Space in Melbourne, 1870-1914

Carla Pascoe

Journal article  |  2014  |  Journal of Australian Studies

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Journal article  |  2014  |  Labour History

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The Bleeding Obvious: Menstrual Ideologies and Technologies in Australia, 1940-1970

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Journal article  |  2014  |  Lilith: A Feminist History Journal

Menstruation is an impolite topic: often avoided in both everyday conversation and academic journals. This article expands the li..

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Children, childhood and cultural heritage: Mapping the field

K Darian-Smith, C Pascoe

Book Chapter  |  2012

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Playlore as cultural heritage: Traditions and change in Australian children’s play

GB Davey, K Darian-Smith, C Pascoe

Book Chapter  |  2012

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The Clang! Clang! Clan: memoirs of Melbourne’s trammies

Carla Eileen Pascoe Leahy, Robert Pascoe

Journal article  |  2012  |  Circa: the Journal of Professional Historians

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Children, childhood and cultural heritage

K Darian-Smith, C Pascoe

Book  |  2012

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Putting Away the Things of Childhood: Museum Representations of Children’s Cultural Heritage

E PASCOE

Book Chapter  |  2012

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Spaces Imagined, Places Remembered: Childhood in 1950s Australia

C Pascoe

Book  |  2011

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From the Guest Editors

M Bailey, C Pascoe, A Regan

Journal article  |  2010  |  History Australia

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City as Space, City as Place Sources and the Urban Historian

Carla Pascoe

Journal article  |  2010  |  History Australia

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Wasted Space: Urban Planning and the Child in 1950s Melbourne

C Pascoe

Conference Proceedings  |  2010  |  Proceedings of the Green Fields, Brown Fields, New Fields: 10th Australasian Urban History Planning History Conference

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Be Home By Dark: Childhood Freedoms and Adult Fears in 1950s Victoria

Carla Pascoe

Journal article  |  2009  |  Australian Historical Studies

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Mapping Koonung Creek: Urban Planning and the Child in 1950s North Balwyn

E PASCOE

Conference Proceedings  |  2008

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The History of Children in Australia: An Interdisciplinary Historiography

Carla Pascoe

Journal article  |  History Compass

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Keyword Analysis

Historical Studies
Expanding Knowledge
Other Studies in Human Society
Heritage
Curatorial and Related Studies
Understanding Past Societies
Demography
Urban and Regional Planning

Credentials

Positions

Arc Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

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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