Dr. Catherine Bishop will speak on Domestic Goddesses or Business Tycoons? Women in Australian History

‘A woman’s place is in the home’, we have been told for generations. But is that really true? Award-winning author Dr Catherine Bishop debunks this myth, telling the stories of some entrepreneurial women in Australasian history - from 19th century butchers, undertakers and brothelkeepers, to 20th century mica miners, taxi drivers and missionaries. 

Dr. Catherine Bishop is a postdoctoral fellow at Macquarie Business School, currently writing a history of Australian women in business since 1880. She is the author of Minding Her Own Business: Colonial Businesswomen in Sydney, which won the Ashurst Business Literature Prize, and Women Mean Business: Colonial Businesswomen in New Zealand, and Too Much Cabbage and Jesus Christ: Australia’s ‘Mission Girl’ Annie Lock. Her latest book, The World We Want: The New York Herald Tribune World Youth Forum and the Cold War Teenager, will be published in late 2024. Signed copies of Catherine’s books will be available for sale for cash or card.