By Dr Blair Williams

Book Chapters

Williams B; Beauregard K, 2025, 'The State of Gender Equality: Victories and Challenges Across Australia', in Politics and Policy in Australia’s States and Territories, Springer Nature Switzerland, pp. 109 - 141, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-95071-1_5

Williams B, 2024, 'The politics of "letting it rip": Why Australia went from zero-COVID to COVID-central', in Research Handbook on Public Management and Covid 19, pp. 72 - 84, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781802205954.00013

Williams B, 2024, 'LEADERSHIP IN THE LANDS DOWN UNDER?: A Comparative Print Media Analysis of the Morrison and Ardern Government COVID-19 Responses', in Routledge Companion to Gender and Covid 19, pp. 397 - 411, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003267904-39

Williams B, 2024, 'Australia's Woman Problem? The rise and fall of gender equality', in Australian Politics at a Crossroads, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003394686

Williams B; Sawer M, 2023, 'High vis and hard hats versus the care economy: Gender and the 2022 election', in Watershed? The 2022 Australian Federal Election, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/W.2023

Williams B, 2023, 'Re-Energising the Revolution Today', in Whitlam and Women: Revisiting the Revolution, https://unsw.press/books/womenandwhitlam/

Williams B, 2021, 'The Murdoch Presses: Representation of Masculinity and Femininity in Leadership', in Gender Politics: Navigating Political Leadership in Australia, https://unsw.press/books/gender-politics/

Williams B, 2020, 'Clark, Helen', in The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication, Wiley, pp. 1 - 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119429128.iegmc244

Williams B, 2020, 'Gillard, Julia', in The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication, Wiley, pp. 1 - 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119429128.iegmc243

Williams B; Sawer M, 2018, 'Rainbow Labor and a Purple Policy Launch: Gender and Sexuality Issues', in Double Disillusion: The 2016 Australian Federal Election, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/DD.04.2018

Journal articles

Williams B, 2025, 'Bloody Howard! Gender, Leadership, and the Decline of the Liberal Party of Australia as the “Party for Women”', Australian Journal of Politics and History, 71, pp. 753 - 777, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajph.70007

Stephenson E; Williams B; Mikolajczak G; Hayes J, 2025, '‘Risky visibility’: the online harassment of queer politicians', European Journal of Politics and Gender, pp. 1 - 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/25151088y2025d000000075

Williams B, 2025, 'Daggy Dads and State Daddies: Theorising the Masculinities of Australian Men Political Leaders', Men and Masculinities, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184X251328266

Williams B; Stephenson E; Mikołajczak G; Hayes J, 2025, 'Out online: an analysis of tweets posted to LGBTQIA + Australian politicians during the 2022 federal election', Australian Journal of Political Science, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2025.2574028

Williams B, 2025, 'The Politics of Gender Equality. By Carol Johnson. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. pp. 332. €49.99 (HB). Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64816-8', Australian Journal of Politics & History, 71, pp. 536 - 538, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajph.13046

Williams B, 2024, 'The Unsettling of Women Prime Ministers: A Gendered Analysis of Political Cartoons', Women S Studies in Communication, 47, pp. 480 - 506, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2024.2396308

Williams B, 2024, 'Women, Media, and Elections: Representation and Marginalization in British Politics. By Emily Harmer. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2021. 212 pp. $139.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9781529204940.', Politics & Gender, 20, pp. 252 - 254, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743923x23000235

Williams B; Greer B, 2023, 'All’s Fair in Pandemic and War? A Gendered Analysis of Australian Coverage of Covid‐19', Media and Communication, 11, pp. 91 - 101, http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v11i1.6139

Williams B, 2022, 'It’s a man’s world at the top: gendered media representations of Julia Gillard and Helen Clark', Feminist Media Studies, 22, pp. 780 - 799, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2020.1842482

Williams B, 2021, 'Ms Represented: exploring 100 years of struggles and firsts for women in politics', History Australia, 18, pp. 872 - 874, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2021.1994432

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Williams BE, 2021, 'A Tale of Two Women: A Comparative Gendered Media Analysis of UK Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May', Parliamentary Affairs, 74, pp. 398 - 420, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsaa008

Johnson C; Williams B, 2020, 'Gender and Political Leadership in a Time of COVID', Politics and Gender, 16, pp. 943 - 950, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X2000029X

Williams B, 2020, 'Louise Swinn, 'Choice Words: A Collection of Writing About Abortion', Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2019, 379 pp., ISBN: 9 7817 6087 5220, A$29.99.', Queensland Review, 27, pp. 206 - 208, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2020.19

Williams B, 2018, 'Gender, politics, news: a game of three sides', Feminist Media Studies, 18, pp. 333 - 334, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2018.1436907

Williams B, 2017, 'A gendered media analysis of the prime ministerial ascension of Gillard and Turnbull: he’s ‘taken back the reins’ and she’s ‘a backstabbing’ murderer', Australian Journal of Political Science, 52, pp. 550 - 564, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2017.1374347

Other

Williams B, 2020, Clark,Helen, Wiley, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119429128.iegmc244

Williams B, 2020, G illard, J ulia, Wiley, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119429128.iegmc243

Williams B, 2020, Thatcher, Margaret, Wiley, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119429128.iegmc216

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