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Catherine Bishop Catherine Bishop i(A60097 works by)
Gender: Female
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Sydney-based historian, whose work focuses on women and on Australian and New Zealand history.

Bishop holds a PhD from the Australian National University (2012), and as of 2018, is a Kathleen Fitzpatrick Junior Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, where her research examines the International Federation of Business and Professional Women. The Australian Religious History Fellow at the State Library of New South Wales in 2016, she has received a New Zealand History Trust Award and won the Australian Women's History Network Mary Bennett Prize and the Ashurst Business Literature Prize.

In 2018, she was shortlisted for the Hazel Rowley Fellowship for a proposal on Annie Lock, a missionary who was the focus of Bishop's Masters dissertation (Australian National University, 1991), then titled 'A Woman Missionary Living Amongst Naked Blacks: Annie Lock 1876-1943'.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2018 shortlisted Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship

for her proposal ‘Annie Lock: A Challenging Woman’.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Minding Her Own Business : Colonial Businesswomen in Sydney Sydney : NewSouth Publishing , 2015 9113417 2015 single work biography

'A history that populates the streets of colonial Sydney with entrepreneurial businesswomen earning their living in a variety of small – and sometimes surprising – enterprises.

'There are few memorials to colonial businesswomen, but if you know where to look you can find many traces of their presence as you wander the streets of Sydney. From milliners and dressmakers to ironmongers and booksellers; from publicans and boarding-house keepers to butchers and taxidermists; from school teachers to ginger-beer manufacturers: these women have been hidden in the historical record but were visible to their contemporaries.

'Catherine Bishop brings the stories of these entrepreneurial women to life, with fascinating details of their successes and failures, their determination and wilfulness, their achievements, their tragedies and the occasional juicy scandal. Until now we have imagined colonial women indoors as wives, and mothers, domestic servants or prostitutes. This book sets them firmly out in the open.' (Publication summary)

2016 winner Ashurst Business Literature Prize
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