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Elsie Clews Parsons was a pioneering feminist, an eminent anthropologist, and an ardent social critic. In Elsie Clews Parsons, Desley Deacon reconstructs Parsons's efforts to overcome gender biases in both academia and society. "Wonderfully illuminating. . . . Parsons's work resonates strikingly to current trends in anthropology."-George W. Stocking, Jr., Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute"This is the biography of a woman so interesting and effective-a cross between Margaret Mead and Georgia O'Keeffe. . . . A nuanced portrait of this vivid woman."-Tanya Luhrmann, New York Times Boo

Abstract: This paper examines the history of the employment of women in the Commonwealth Public Service (CPS) and attempts to explain the discrepancy between the meritocratic principles on which the personnel practices of the Service have been based and the lack of attainment of women in the Service. It demonstrates how the perception of men's and women's merits was structured by the division of labour current at the turn of the century when the CPS was established, and how, with the routinization and feminization of clerical work, these perceptions have helped create and ensure the continued reproduction of a dual labour market within the Service which is proving difficult to eradicate despite the removal of formal impediments.

A 'roaring decade': listening to the Australian gold-fields /Diane Collins --A complex kind of training: cities, technologies and sound in jazz-age Europe /James Donald --Speech, children and the federation movement /Alan Atkinson --Sounds of history: oratory and the fantasy of male power /Marilyn Lake --Hunting the wild reciter: elocution and the art of recitation /Peter Kirkpatrick --World English? how an australian invented 'good American speech' /Desley Deacon --'The Australian has a lazy way of talking': Australian character and accent, 1920s-1940s /Joy Damousi --Towards a history of the Australian accent /Bruce Moore --Voice, power and modernity /Bruce Johnson --Modernity, intimacy and early Australian commercial radio /Bridget Griffen-Foley --Talking salvation for the silent majority: projecting new possibilities of modernity in the Australian cinema, 1929-1933 /Brian Yecies.

Historians have, until recently, been silent about sound. This collection of essays on talking and listening in the age of modernity brings together major Australian scholars who have followed Alain Corbin's injunction that historians 'can no longer afford to neglect materials pertaining to auditory perception'. Ranging from the sound of gunfire on the Australian gold-fields to Alfred Deakin's virile oratory, these essays argue for the influence of the auditory in forming individual and collective subjectivities; the place of speech in understanding individual and collective endeavours; the centrality of speech in marking and negating difference and in struggles for power; and the significance of the technologies of radio and film in forming modern cultural identities.