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Lisa Featherstone


Dr Lisa Featherstone is a Senior Lecturer in Australian History at the University of Queensland. Lisa has worked widely on the history of sexuality, including the monograph Let’sTalk About Sex: Histories of Sexuality in Australia from Federation to the Pill (2011). Lisa is a Chief Investigator on the ARC DP Project ‘Sexual Offences, Legal Responses, and Public Perceptions: 1880s-1980s’.

Dr Amanda Kaladelfos is Research Fellow with the Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship Project ‘Prosecution and the CriminalTrial in Australian History’ at the Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University, Australia, and Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery Project ‘Sexual Offences, Legal Responses, and Public Perceptions: 1880s-1980s’. Amanda’s research crosses the fields of history, law and criminology.


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