Jill Julius Matthews

Matthews rewrote her PhD thesis to be published as Good and Mad Women: The Historical Construction of Femininity in Twentieth Century Australia by Allen & Unwin. In her 1987 review of the book, British historian Catherine Hall considered it to be an "essential starting point for British readers into the rapidly extending world of Australian feminist history."^[3]

Matthews was awarded a Nancy Keesing Fellowship by the State Library of New South Wales in 2004.^[4] Her 2005 book, Dance Hall and Picture Palace, won the prize for best monograph presented by the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand. It was also shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for History.^[2]

Her papers are held in the Australian National University Archives.^[5]

• Matthews, Jill Julius (1984). Good and mad women. The historical construction of femininity in twentieth-century Australia. Allen & Unwin Australia. ISBN 978-0-86861-657-5.
• Matthews, Jill Julius, ed. (1997). Sex in public: Australian sexual cultures. Allen and Unwin. ISBN 978-1-86448-049-8.
• Matthews, Jill Julius (2005). Dance hall & picture palace: Sydney's romance with modernity. Currency Press. ISBN 978-0-86819-755-5.