A full year of this project was conducted under Covid-19 lock-down in various parts of Germany where I continued living after my visiting fellowships had ended due to the cancellation of flights into Australia.
I am grateful to all the lovely hosts, teachers, fellow language students and fellow academics in Germany who have left me with so many fond memories of this time.
I have published most on the history of French and German psychiatry and on the long history of sexuality, gender and medicine. I have also written about historical theory, genocide historiographic debates, and the history of European medical ideas about digestion and diet.
I did both my Bachelor of Arts Honours in European Studies and my PhD in history at the University of Sydney. I also studied non-award biomedical sciences at the University of New England to enrich my expertise in histories of biology, health, nutrition and disease. I am also now studying higher education management part-time at the University of Melbourne.
In addition to my individual project described here, I am currently involved in collaborative projects on the history of digestive health and of nineteenth-century hygiene, on the historical writing of Michel Foucault, and on the history, anthropology and sociology of gynaecological surgeries.
This is my university staff profile:
A list of all my scholarship is listed below and those journal articles that are downloadable can be accessed via the links. Any not linked can be found on my academia.edu page:
ISBN: 978-1-604-97822-3.
Journal Articles:
‘Race, Class, Caste, Disability, Sterilisation and Hysterectomy,’ BMJ Medical Humanities, August 2022, 1-11. DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2022-012381
‘Modern European Sexological and Orientalist Assimilations of Medieval Islamicate ‘Ilm al-Bah to Erotology,’ History of the Human Sciences. DOI: 10.1177/09526951211056152
‘The Global Proliferation of Radical Gynaecological Surgeries: A History of the Present,’ co-authored with Fouzieyha Towghi, Holly Ashford, Tinashe Dune and Rashmi Pithavadian. History & Anthropology 32 (4): 1-25. DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2021.1987232.
‘Foucault’s 1960s Lectures on Sexuality,’ co-authored with Stuart Elden, Theory, Culture and Society, Special Issue on Foucault Before the Collège de France, June 2021, 1-15. DOI: 10.1177/02632764211017983.
‘Aphrodisiacs in the Global History of Medical Thought,’ co-authored with Rashmi Pithavadian, Journal of Global History 16 (1) March 2021: 24-43. DOI: 10.1017/S1740022820000108.
The Historicity of Sexuality: Knowledge of the Past in the Emergence of Modern Sexual Science,’ Modern Intellectual History 18, no. (2) June 2021, 403-426. DOI: 10.1017/S147924431900026X.
‘Temporal Layering in the Long Conceptual History of Sexual Medicine: Reading Koselleck with Foucault’, Journal of the Philosophy of History 15 (1), April 2021, 5-27. DOI: 10.1163/18722636-12341428.
‘Foucault’s Scholarly Virtues and Sexuality Historiography,’ History: The Journal of the Historical Association 105 (366), July 2020, 446-469. DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13015.
‘Foucault, Early Christian Ideas of Genitalia and the History of Sexuality,’ Journal of the History of Sexuality 29 (1), January 2020, 28-49. DOI: 10.7560/JHS29102.
‘L’Amour morbide: How a Transient Mental Illness Became Defunct,’ Intellectual History Review 29 (2), March 2019, 291-312. DOI: 10.1080/17496977.2017.1374078.
‘Contextualising the Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis in History and Culture,’ co-authored with Manon Mathias and Jørgen Valeur. Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease 29 (2), November 2018. DOI: 10.1080/16512235.2019.1546267.
‘Coprophagy in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry,’ Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease, Volume 30 supp. November 2018. DOI: 10.1080/16512235.2018.1535737.
‘Victorian Medicine Was Not Responsible for Repressing the Clitoris: Rethinking Homology in the Long History of Women’s Genital Anatomy,’ Signs: The Journal of Women in Culture and Society 44 (1) August 2018, 53-81. DOI: 10.1086/698277.
‘Conceptual Layers in the Invention of Menopause in Nineteenth-Century France,’ French History 32 (2) May 2018, 226-248. DOI: 10.1093/fh/cry006.
‘Historicising Historical Theory’s History of Cultural Historiography,’ Cosmos & History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 12 (1), February 2016, 257-291. Open access HERE
‘The Spectacular Anus of Joseph Pujol: Recovering the Pétomane’s Unique Historic Context,’ French Cultural Studies 24 (1), February 2013, 27-43. DOI:10.1177/0957155812466975.
‘Arcane Erotica and National “Patrimony”: Britain’s Private Case and the Collection de l’Enfer of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France,’ Cultural Studies Review 18 (1), November 2011, 196-216. DOI: 10.5130/csr.v18i1.1821
‘Is the Unspeakable Singable? Henryk Górecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs and the Ethics of Holocaust Empathy,’ Portal, Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies 8 (1) January 2011, 1-17. DOI: 10.5130/portal.v8i1.1888.
‘Sadean Nature and Reasoned Morality in Adorno/Horkheimer’s “Dialectic of Enlightenment’”,‘ Psychology and Sexuality 1 (3), September 2010, 249-260. DOI: 10.1080/19419899.2010.494901
‘Frigidity at the Fin-de-Siècle, a Slippery and Capacious Concept,’ co-authored with Peter Cryle, Journal of the History of Sexuality 19(2) May 2010, 243-261. DOI: 10.5555/jhs.2010.19.2.243.
‘The Invention of Sadism? The Limits of Neologisms in the History of Sexuality, ‘ Sexualities 12 (4), October 2009, 489-506. DOI: 10.1177/1363460709105715.
‘Recovering Difference in the Deleuzian Dichotomy of Masochism-without-Sadism,’ Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 14 (3), November 2009, 27-43. DOI:10.1080/09697250903407500.
‘Frigidity, Gender and Power in French Cultural History – From Jean Fauconney to Marie Bonaparte,’ French Cultural Studies 20 (4), November 2009, 331-349. DOI:10.1177/0957155809344155.
‘Relocating Marie Bonaparte’s Clitoris,’ Australian Feminist Studies 24 (60), April 2009, 149-165. DOI: 10.1080/08164640902852373.
‘Rethinking Gendered Perversion and Degeneration in Visions of Sadism and Masochism,’ 1886-1930. Journal of the History of Sexuality 18 (1), January 2009, 138-157. DOI: 10.1353/sex.0.0034.
‘History, Memory and Trauma in Photography of the Tondues: visuality of the Vichy past through the silent image of women,’ Gender and History 17 (3), November 2005, 657-681. DOI: 10.1111/j.0953-5233.2005.00400.x.
‘Visions of Sadomasochism as a Nazi Erotic,’ Lesbian and Gay Psychology Review 6 (3), November 2005, 163-176.
Chapter 17: ‘The Impact of Sigmund Freud on the History of Sexuality,’ in The Cambridge World History of Sexualities, Volume II, eds. Merry Wiesner-Hanks and Mathew Kuefler (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022 forthcoming).
‘Marie Bonaparte,’ In Candice Goucher (ed), Women Who Changed the World (Santa Barbara: ABC-ClIO), volume 2: 517-522.
‘Hypatia,’ In Candice Goucher (ed), Women Who Changed the World (Santa Barbara: ABC-ClIO), volume 1: 185-193.
‘The Historical Sexes,’ In Howard Chiang (ed), Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History (Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2019), 671-677.
‘The Gut Feelings of Medical Culture’, co-authored with Manon Mathias. In Manon Mathias and Alison M. Moore (eds), Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture (New York: Palgrave, 2018), 1-14.
‘Situating the Anal Freud in Nineteenth-Century Imaginaries of Excrement and Colonial Primitivity,’ In Manon Mathias and Alison M. Moore (eds), Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture (New York: Palgrave, 2018), 55-84.
‘Androgyny, Perversion and Evolutionary Pasts in Interwar Sexuality: Freud, Marañon, Bonaparte,’ In Kate Fisher and Rebecca Langlands (eds), Sex, Knowledge, and Receptions of the Past (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 220-242.
Historicizing Sexual Symbols. In Alison M. Moore (ed), Sexing Political Culture in the History of France (New York: Cambria, 2012), 1-25.
The Erotic Republic: Dynamic Exchanges Between Politics and Sexology in the French Third Republic. In Alison M. Moore (ed), Sexing Political Culture in the History of France (New York: Cambria, 2012), 147-172.
Sadism As Social Violence. In Sarah Toulalan and Kate Fisher (eds), Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011), 221-235.
Colonial Visions of ‘Third World’ Toilets: A Nineteenth-Century Discourse That Haunts Contemporary Tourism. In Olga Gershenson and Barbara Penner (eds), Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009), 97-113.
Fin de Siècle Sexuality and Excretion. In Peter Cryle and Christopher Forth (eds), Fin de Siècle Sexuality: The Making of a Central Problem (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008), 125-139.
Pathologising Female Sexual ‘Frigidity’ in Fin-De-Siècle France, Or How Absence Was Made Into a Thing. In David Evans and Kate Griffiths (eds), Pleasure and Pain in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008), 191-204.
Sexualités, identités, nationalismes. In François Rouquet, Fabrice Virgili, Danièle Voldman (eds), Amours, guerres et sexualité, 1914-1945 (Paris: Gallimard, 2007), 18-25.
History, Memory and Trauma in Photography of the Tondues: Visuality of the Vichy Past Through the Silent Image of Women. In Patricia Hayes (ed), Visual Genders, Visual Histories. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006), 139-163.
Kakao and Kaka: Chocolate and the Excretory Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. In Ana Carden-Coyne and Christopher Forth (eds), Cultures of the Abdomen: Dietetics, Digestion and Obesity in the Modern World. (New York: Palgrave, 2005), 51-69.
Spiritual Sadomasochism: Western and Tantric Perspectives. In Natalya Lusty and Ruth Walker (eds), Masochism: Disciplines of Desire, Aesthetics of Cruelty. (Sydney: PG ARC Publications, 1998), 65-78.
The Medieval Body and the Modern Eye; A Corporeal Reading of the Old French Fabliaux. In Francesca Bussey and John O. Ward (eds), Worshipping Women; Misogyny and Mysticism in the Middle Ages. (Sydney: University of Sydney Press, 1997), 237-282.
Do Menopausal Women Need Estrogen Replacement to Avoid Osteoporosis? Journal of Evolution & Health 4 (1), December 2019, 1-10. Papers from the Ancestral Health Symposium, San Diego CA, USA 2019.
The French Elaboration of Ideas about Menopause, Sexuality and Aging 1805-1920. French History & Civilization 8: Papers from the George Rudé Seminar (2019), 34-50. Relates to ARC Discovery project DP 190101457.
Menopause from an Integrative Historical and Evolutionary Perspective. Journal of Evolution & Health 3 (1), February 2019, 1-10. Papers from the Ancestral Health Symposium, Boseman MT, USA 2018. DOI: 10.15310/2334-3591.1097. Relates to ARC Discovery project DP 190101457.
What Became of Cultural Historicism in the French Reclamation of Strasbourg After World War One? French History & Civilization 5: Papers from the George Rudé Seminar (2014), 1-15.
The Invention of the Unsexual: Situating Frigidity in the History of Sexuality and in Feminist Thought. In Vesna Drapac and André Lambelet (eds), French History & Civilization 2: Papers from the George Rudé Seminar (2009), 181-192.
Female Flesh and the Boundaries of the French Nation: A Theoretical Intervention Into Recent Historiography of the Tondues. In Stephan Atzert and Andrew Bonnell (eds), Europe’s Pasts and Presents. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for European History. (Unley SA: Australian Humanities Press, 2004), 355-367.
Book Review of Jessie Hewitt, Institutionalizing Gender: Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France (Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press), 238pp. ISBN: 978-1-5017-53312. H-France 22 (12), 2022: 1-5: https://h-france.net/vol22reviews/vol22no12moore.pdf
Book Review of Sean Quinlan, Morbid Undercurrents: Medical Subcultures in Postrevolutionary France. 336 pp., Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. ISBN 9781501758331. Isis, Journal of the History of Science Society 13, no.3 (2022); 661-662. DOI: 10.1086/721042:
Book Review of Maria Kathryn Tomlinson, From Menstruation to the Menopause: The Female Fertility Cycle in Contemporary Women’s Writing in French, Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 77. 234pp., Liverpool: Liverpool University Pres, 2021. ISBN 978-1-800-34846-2. H-France 22 (77), 2022: 1-5: https://h-france.net/vol22reviews/vol22no77moore.pdf
Review of Michel Foucault, Sexuality: The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand & 1969 Vincennes Lectures, ed. Claude Olivier-Doron, trans. Graham Burchell (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021). 383pp. ISBN: 978-0-2311-95072. Journal of the History of Sexuality. Forthcoming 2022.
A Long History of Aphrodisiacs, from Health Tonic to Sexual Aid, Psyche Magazine (Aeon Media Group Ltd), 19th May 2021: https://psyche.co/ideas/a-long-history-of-aphrodisiacs-from-health-tonic-to-sexual-aid
How the Sexes Have Been Counted in World History. Submission (by invitation) to the Australian Human Rights Commission project on Protecting the Human Rights of People Born with Variations in Sex. September 14th 2018.
Fabrice Virgili, The Reconstruction of a Virile France 1944-45. (Translation from French to English for Alison M. Moore (ed), Sexing Political Culture in the History of France (New York: Cambria, 2012), 267-284.
Review of E. Jane Burns, Bodytalk: When women speak in Old French literature (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993), 304pp. ISBN: 9780812214055. Parergon 12 (2), 1995, 145-148. DOI: 10.1353/pgn.1995.0087.
Media Article: ‘Unnecessary hysterectomies still happening in India, elsewhere’, co-authored with Fouzieyha Towghi and Tinashe Dune. 360info, Special Report on Unnecessary Surgery, September 16th 2022. DOI: 10.54377/1923-09b1: https://360info.org/unnecessary-hysterectomies-are-still-happening/
