By Associate Professor Zora Simic

Book Chapters

Simic Z, 2026, 'A Multicultural Nomad and Diasporic Intellectual: In Honour of Sneja Gunew', in Imiscoe Research Series, Springer Nature, pp. 53 - 70, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-99328-2_4

Simic Z, 2026, 'Sex Talk: A Short History of the Sex Survey in Australia', in Social Survey in Global Perspective 1900 2020s, pp. 244 - 261

Simic Z, 2020, 'Rock Star in Space', in Nichols D; Perillo S (ed.), Urban Australia and Post-Punk: Exploring Dogs in Space, Springer Singapore, pp. 105 - 122, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9702-9

Simic Z, 2019, ''Historicising a "National Disgrace": Towards a feminist history of domestic violence in Australia'', in Piper A; Stevenson A (ed.), Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives, Monash University Publishing, pp. 3 - 19, https://publishing.monash.edu/books/gva-9781925835304.html

Simic Z, 2019, ''The age of consent and girls: a short history'', in Lumby C; Gleeson K (ed.), The Age of Consent Young People, Sexual Abuse and Agency, pp. 117 - 133, https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/age-consent/

Simic Z, 2019, ''Unmistakably a book by a feminist': Helen Garner's Monkey Grip and its feminist contexts', in Arrow M; Woollacott A (ed.), Everyday Revolutions Remaking Gender, Sexuality and Culture in 1970s Australia, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 139 - 159, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/ER.2019

Simic Z, 2018, 'TLO 2: Demonstrate a Variety of Conceptual Approaches to Interpreting the Past', in Clark J; Nye A (ed.), Teaching the Discipline of History in an Age of Standards, Springer, pp. 217 - 231

Simic Z, 2018, 'Speak English! Non-English Speaking Mothers and their Children', in Nelson C; Robertson R (ed.), Dangerous Ideas about Mothers, UWAP, Perth, pp. 117 - 127

Simic Z, 2017, 'First Person Feminism', in Ley J; Menzies-Pike C (ed.), The Australian Face: Essays From the Sydney Review of Books, SRB/ New South Press, Sydney, pp. 205 - 217, https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/about/the-australian-face-essays-from-the-srb-on-australian-literature/

Simic Z, 2017, ''Is the Personal Still Political?'', in Caro J (ed.), Unbreakable: Women Share Stories of Resilience and Hope, UQP, St. Lucia, pp. 53 - 72

Simic Z, 2016, 'Struggle Street - Poverty Porn?', in Arrow M; Monagle C; Baker J (ed.), Small Screens: Essays on Contemporary Australian Television, Monash University Publishing, Melbourne, pp. 171 - 187, http://www.publishing.monash.edu/books/ss-9781925377101.html

Simic Z, 2015, 'Wog Westie Feminist: Or the evidence of experience', in Bread and Roses: Voices of Australian Academics from the Working Class, Springer Link, pp. 39 - 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-127-4_5

Simic Z, 2015, 'Fat as a Feminist Issue: A History', in Hester H (ed.), Fat Sex: New Directions in Theory and Activism, Ashgate, pp. 15 - 35, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472432544

Simic , 2013, 'Bodies and Sexuality: Twentieth century orgasms; or the problem of female heterosexuality (in Vol. 6)', in Kalof L; Conor L (ed.), A Cultural History of Women in the Modern Age - 6 volumes, Bloomsbury Academic, London, UK, pp. 35 - 59, http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/a-cultural-history-of-women-9781847884756/

Journal articles

Kevin C; Simic Z, 2026, '‘We Marched in the Streets One Day, Wrote Submissions the Next’: Feminism, Domestic Violence and International Women’s Year', Australian Historical Studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2026.2645595

Simic Z, 2025, 'Seeing the signs: thinking historically about coercive control', Women S History Review, ahead-of-print, pp. 1 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2025.2530251

Simic Z; Curthoys A; Kevin C; Morey C; Smith Z, 2025, 'Historicising domestic abuse in Australia 1850–2020: how useful is new language for describing an old problem?', Women S History Review, ahead-of-print, pp. 1 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2025.2530246

Simic Z; Silverstein J; Silverstein B, 2025, '‘We open our eyes despite the pain it causes’: a role for historians in these genocidal times', History Australia, 22, pp. 319 - 335, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2025.2495210

Curthoys A; Kevin C; Simic Z, 2024, 'A partial view: the limits and value of the legal archive for historicising domestic violence', History Australia, 21, pp. 434 - 455, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2024.2375611

Simic Z, 2022, 'Carolyn Collins gives Save Our Sons the substantial history they deserve', History Australia, 19, pp. 826 - 827, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2022.2132111

Simic Z, 2022, 'Postfeminism in Context: Women, Australian Popular Culture, and the Unsettling of Postfeminism', Journal of Australian Studies, 46, pp. 387 - 389, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2022.2068758

Simic Z, 2022, 'Broken English: What to Do with Wongar, the European Migrant Who Became an Aboriginal Writer', Australian Historical Studies, 53, pp. 620 - 639, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2022.2109696

Piperoglou A; Simic Z, 2022, 'Their Own Perceptions: Non-Anglo Migrants and Aboriginal Australia', Australian Historical Studies, 53, pp. 519 - 530, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2022.2122268

Simic Z, 2021, 'Barry Reay aims to give the ‘Transgender Tipping Point’ a history Trans America: A Counter-History , by Barry Reay, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2020, 256 pp., AUD $36.95 paperback, AUD $113.95 hardcover, ISBN: 9781509511792, Publisher’s website: https://www.wiley.com/en-au/Trans+America:+A+Counter+History-p-9781509511792', History Australia, 18, pp. 189 - 190, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2021.1880279

Simic Z, 2020, 'Intersectionality, More or Less: A Review Essay', AUSTRALIAN HUMANITIES REVIEW, pp. 17 - 31, http://australianhumanitiesreview.org/2020/11/29/intersectionality-more-or-less-a-review-essay/

Simic Z, 2020, 'From Battered Wives to Domestic Violence: The Transnational Circulation of Chiswick Women’s Aid and Erin Pizzey’s Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear (1974)', Australian Historical Studies, 51, pp. 107 - 126, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2019.1707243

Simic Z, 2020, 'Speaking Out: Feminism, Rape and Narrative Politics', WOMEN-A CULTURAL REVIEW, 31, pp. 108 - 111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09574042.2020.1723339

Suny RG; Bishop C; Evans T; Murphy J; Horner D; Baird M; Fox K; Simic Z; Brown N; Keene J; Mendes P; Huf B; Palmer D; Forsyth A; Fieldes D; Ravenswood K, 2019, 'BOOK REVIEWS', Labour History, 117, pp. 213 - 246, http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/jlh.2019.26

Balint R; Simic Z, 2018, 'Histories of Migrants and Refugees in Australia', Australian Historical Studies, 49, pp. 378 - 409, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2018.1479438

Simic Z, 2018, 'What Can Feminist Historians Do With Intersectionality?', Lilith (Fitzroy, Vic.), pp. 16 - 25, https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=132411598577356;res=IELHSS/

Simic Z, 2017, 'Reading Feminist Killjoys', Sydney Review of Books, https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/not-a-feminist-life-unwanted-advances-review/

Simic Z, 2017, 'Gay and Lesbian History Now', History Australia, 14, pp. 315 - 321, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2017.1321067

Simic Z, 2016, 'First Person Feminism', Sydney Review of Books, https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/fight-like-a-girl-clementine-ford-review/

Simic Z, 2016, 'Mateship: A Very Australian History', Australian Historical Studies, 47, pp. 348 - 349, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2016.1162696

Simic Z, 2014, ''Bachelors of Misery and Proxy Brides: Marriage, migration and assimilation, 1947-1973'', History Australia: Journal of the Australian Historical Association, 11, pp. 149 - 174, http://journals.publishing.monash.edu/ojs/index.php/ha/article/view/1099

Simic Z, 2013, 'Bodies and Sexuality: Twentieth-Century Orgasms; or, The Problem of Female Heterosexuality', , pp. 35 - 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350048171-ch-002

Simic Z, 2013, 'Women and power in the brash 1980s media', History Australia, 10, pp. 284 - 286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2013.11668493

Simic Z, 2012, 'A History of Australia', LABOUR HISTORY, pp. 261 - 262, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000311597900015&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Simic Z, 2012, 'Suburban dreaming: Boomburbs: Andrew Merry 52 Suburbs: A search for beauty in the 'Burbs', Recollections, 6, pp. 12

Simic Z, 2012, 'Rivers and Resilience: Aboriginal People on Sydney's Georges River', JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN STUDIES, 36, pp. 260 - 261, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000305915700015&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Ahrens P; Arrow M; Bellanta M; James S; Piccini J; Simic Z; Slater L; Urschel K; van Vuuren K, 2012, 'BOOK REVIEWS', Journal of Australian Studies, 36, pp. 253 - 265, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2012.676725

Simic Z, 2012, 'Long Cumulative Labor of Transformation: A Response to Margaret Henderson', Lilith: a feminist history journal, No. 17-18, pp. 121 - 131

Simic Z, 2011, 'Friday On Our Minds: Popular Culture in Australia since 1945', JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN STUDIES, 35, pp. 129 - 131, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000291303400017&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Cheater C; Haag O; Kevin C; MacIntosh L; Manwaring R; Olszowska M; Rolls M; Sheridan S; Simic Z, 2011, 'BOOK REVIEWS', Journal of Australian Studies, 35, pp. 117 - 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2011.542603

Andrews K; Encarnacao J; Simic Z, 2011, 'Film and Radio Reviews', History Australia, 8, pp. 230 - 236, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2011.11668382

Simic Z, 2010, ''Door bitches of club feminism': Academia and feminist competency', Feminist Review, 95, pp. 75 - 91, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/fr.2009.60

Zora S, 2010, ''Door Bitches of Club Feminism?: Academia and Feminist Competency', Feminist Review, Vol. 95, pp. 74 - 91, http://www.palgrave-journals.com/fr/journal/v95/n1/full/fr200960a.html

Zora S, 2010, 'Fallen Girls?: Plumpton High and the problem of teenage pregnancy', Journal of Australian Studies, 34, pp. 429 - 445, http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/section?content=a929765393&fulltext=713240928

Simic Z, 2010, 'The Margins of Suburbia', History Australia, 7, pp. 47.1 - 47.2, http://dx.doi.org/10.2104/ha100047

Simic Z, 2009, 'Australian Rock: essays on popular music', JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN STUDIES, 33, pp. 247 - 248, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000278108300016&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

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