Associate Professor Margaret Henderson
Associate Professor
School of Communication and Arts
Affiliate of Centre for Critical and Creative Writing
Centre for Critical and Creative Writing
+61 7 336 52338
Researcher biography
Margaret teaches in the literature area in the School of Communication and Arts. Her teaching interests are literary theory, contemporary women's writing, and postmodern fiction.
Margaret is the author of Marking Feminist Times: Remembering the Longest Revolution in Australia, a study of Australian feminist cultural memory; Kathy Acker: Punk Writer; and co-author with Anthea Taylor of Postfeminism in Context: Women, Australian Popular Culture, and the Unsettling of Postfeminism. She is the co-editor of Terra-Recognita: New Essays in Australian Studies, Manifesting Australian Literary Feminisms: Nexus and Faultlines, and Things that Liberate: An Australian Feminist Wunderkammer. She has also published numerous articles on feminist fiction and culture, and autobiography.
She has been a consultant to the National Museum of Australia, advising on a modern Australian women's movement collection. Her current project is a monograph on women's punk and post-punk memoirs.
Books
Henderson, Margaret (2021). Kathy Acker: punk writer. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315100098
Henderson, Margaret and Taylor, Anthea (2020). Postfeminism in context: women, Australian popular culture, and the unsettling of postfeminism. Abingdon, Oxon United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315179872
Henderson, M. A. (2006). Marking Feminist Times: Remembering the Longest Revolution in Australia. Bern, New York: Peter Lang.
Book Chapters
Henderson, Margaret (2023). A portrait of the artist as a punk: authenticity and the woman musician in Debbie Harry’s Face It. Women in rock memoirs: music, history, and life-writing. (pp. 106-121) edited by Cristina Garrigós and Marika Ahonen. New York, United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197659328.003.0007
Henderson, Margaret (2023). A portrait of the artist as a punk: Authenticity and the woman musician in Debbie Harry's Face It. Women in Rock Memoirs: Music, History, and Life-Writing. (pp. 106-121) New York, NY United States: Oxford University Press.
Henderson, Margaret (2013). Album: Horses. Things That Liberate: An Australian Feminist Wunderkammer. (pp. 19-30) edited by Alison Bartlett and Margaret Henderson. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Bartlett, Alison and Henderson, Margaret (2013). Working with feminist things: the wunderkammer as feminist methodology. Things That Liberate: An Australian Feminist Wunderkammer. (pp. 1-16) edited by Alison Bartlett and Margaret Henderson. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Henderson, M. A. (2006). The best motorbike: The Ducati 916 superbike. Beautiful things in popular culture. (pp. 124-143) edited by A. McKee. Oxford, United Kingdom: Blackwell Publishing.
Henderson, M. A. (2002). "The Big Business of Surfing's Oceanic Feeling: Thirty Years of Tracks Magazine.". Growing Up Postmodern: Beoliberalism and the War on the Young. (pp. 141-167) edited by Ronald Strickland. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield.
Henderson, M. (2001). Finola Moorhead. Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing. (pp. 221-223) edited by Jane Eldridge Miller. London: Routledge.
Henderson, M. (2001). Amanda Lohrey. Who's who in contemporary women's writing. (pp. 194) edited by Jane Eldridge Miller. London: Routledge.
Henderson, M. A. (2001). Questions of the Visible and the Invisible: The Visual and Performing Arts.. Queer in the 21st Century: Challenge and Response. (pp. 45-46) edited by John Angus and Stephen Cox. Fortitude Valley: Gay and Lesbian Welfare Association.
Henderson, M. (2001). Frenzy of the Invisible? Porn in the Field of Lesbian Vision. Queer in the 21st Century: The Body - Queer and Politic. (pp. 131-151) edited by J. Keith Atkinson and Justin J. Finnerty. Fortitude Valley, Qld: Gay and Lesbian Welfare Association.
Henderson, M. A. (2000). Male fantasy. The Australian legend and its discontents. (pp. 250-266) edited by Richard Nile. Queensland: University of Queensland Press.
Journal Articles
Mackinlay, Elizabeth, Mickelburgh, Renée T., Henderson, Margaret, Evans, Bonnie and Gowlett, Christina (2024). ‘There was a cone of silence as though this was normal’: tuning in and turning up the conversation on ‘Teach Us Consent’. Gender and Education, 36 (3), 213-229. doi: 10.1080/09540253.2024.2305949
Henderson, Margaret and Taylor, Anthea (2023). A prosthetic popular feminism in postfeminist times: Mrs. America’s cool feminism and antifeminist celebrity. Signs, 48 (4), 1015-1039. doi: 10.1086/724240
Henderson, Margaret (2023). Review of Lohrey by Julieanne Lamond. Australian Literary Studies, 38 (1). doi: 10.20314/als.cc8b09dd59
Henderson, Margaret (2021). Reviewing Kathy Acker: the reception history of a belated woman writer. Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation, 47 (1-2), 32-50.
Henderson, Margaret (2020). Review of The Fiction of Thea Astley, by Susan Sheridan. Australian Literary Studies, 19 (2), 1-2.
Henderson, Margaret (2020). Of witches and monsters, the filth and the fury: two Australian women’s post-punk autobiographies. Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 20 (1), 1-14.
Henderson, Margaret (2017). Kathy Acker's punk feminism: a feminism of cruelty and excess in more liberated and liberal times. Contemporary Women's Writing, 11 (2), 201-220. doi: 10.1093/cww/vpw037
Bartlett, Alison and Henderson, Margaret (2016). Social memory and feminist cultural histories. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 30 (3), 273-273. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2016.1166558
Bartlett, Alison and Henderson, Margaret (2016). Feminism and the museum in Australia: an introduction. Journal of Australian Studies, 40 (2), 129-139. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2016.1157702
Bartlett, Alison and Henderson, Margaret (2016). What is a feminist object? Feminist material culture and the making of the activist object. Journal of Australian Studies, 40 (2), 156-171. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2016.1157701
Henderson, Margaret (2016). Retrovisioning chicko roles: Puberty Blues as postfeminist television adaptation and the feminization of the 1970s. Continuum, 30 (3), 326-335. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2016.1166559
Vickery, Ann and Henderson, Margaret (2016). Manifesting Australian literary feminisms: Nexus and faultlines. Australian Literary Studies, 31 (1), 1-19.
Henderson, Margaret (2015). From Counterculture to Punk Culture: The Emergence of Kathy Acker's Punk Poetics. LIT Literature Interpretation Theory, 26 (4), 276-297. doi: 10.1080/10436928.2015.1092347
Henderson, Margaret (2014). Kathy is a punk writer: when the underground goes overground. Critique, 55 (5), 536-550. doi: 10.1080/00111619.2013.793169
Henderson, Margaret (2013). Pornography in the service of lesbians: the case of Wicked Women and Slit magazines. The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 2 (2), 159-182-182. doi: 10.1386/ajpc.2.2.159_1
Bartlett, Alison and Henderson, Margaret (2013). “The Australian women's movement goes to the museum: the ‘cultures of Australian feminist activism, 1970–1990’ project”. Women's Studies International Forum, 37, 85-94. doi: 10.1016/j.wsif.2012.10.013
Henderson, Margaret (2013). A celebratory feminist aesthetics in postfeminist times: screening the Australian women’s liberation in paper giants - The Birth of Cleo. Australian Feminist Studies, 28 (77), 250-262. doi: 10.1080/08164649.2013.821727
Henderson, Margaret (2013). Archiving the feminist self: reflections on the personal papers of Merle Thornton. Archives and Manuscripts, 41 (2), 91-104. doi: 10.1080/01576895.2013.806013
Dever, Maryanne and Henderson, Margaret (2012). THE ACTIVIST'S ARCHIVE: Merle Thornton. Australian Feminist Studies, 27 (72), 221-223. doi: 10.1080/08164649.2012.676759
Henderson, Margaret (2011). Trouble: Evolution of a radical, selected writings 1970-2010. Australian Feminist Studies, 26 (69), 380-382. doi: 10.1080/08164649.2011.606607
Henderson, Margaret (2010). The Feminine Mystique of individualism is powerful: Two American feminist memoirs in postfeminist times. Auto/Biography Studies, 23 (2), 165-184. doi: 10.1080/08989575.2008.10846777
Henderson, Margaret and Winter, Alexandra (2009). Memoirs of our nervous illness: The Queensland Police Special Branch files of Carole Ferrier as political auto/biography. Life Writing, 6 (3), 349-367. doi: 10.1080/14484520903082991
Vickery, Ann and Henderson, Margaret (2009). Manifesting Australian literary feminisms: Nexus and faultlines. Australian Literary Studies, 24 (3-4), 1-19.
Henderson, Margaret (2008). Feminism in the hearts and minds and words of men: Revisiting men's cultural remembrance of Australian feminism in the new millennium. Dialogue: Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 27 (3), 29-39.
Henderson, Margaret (2008). Making feminist memory, American style. Contemporary Women's Writing, 2 (2), 174-180. doi: 10.1093/cww/vpn019
Bartlett, Alison, Dever, Maryanne and Henderson, Margaret (2007). Notes towards an archive of Australian feminist activism. Outskirts: Feminisms Along the Edge, 16.
Henderson, M. (2007). Betty Friedan (1921-2006). Australian Feminist Studies, 22 (53), 163-166. doi: 10.1080/08164640701361725
Henderson, M. A. and Dale, L. (2006). Introduction: The terra of recognition. Journal of Australian Studies, 86, 1-6.
Henderson, Margaret and Dale, Leigh (2005). The terra of recognition. Journal of Australian Studies, 29 (86), 1-6. doi: 10.1080/14443050509388026
Henderson, Margaret and Reid, Margaret (2004). "It's not that Bloody Far from Sydney: Towards A Semiotic History of the Brisbane Women's Movement.". Australian Feminist Studies, 19 (44), 159-168. doi: 10.1080/0816464042000226456
Henderson, M. (2002). Australian Feminism and Cultural Critique, circa 2002. Australian Humanities Review (26)
Henderson, M. (2002). The tidiest revolution: Regulative feminist autobiography and the de-facement of the Australian women's movement. Australian Literary Studies, 20 (3), 178-191.
Henderson, M. (2002). Legends of the Rise and Of the Fall: Towards A Poetics of Histories of the Australian Women's Movement. Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History, 31 (3), 301-326.
Henderson, M. A. (2001). The Novel of Good Intentions. Rev. of Faith Singer, By Rosie Scott. Australian Women's Book Review, 13 (December No. 2)
Henderson, M (2001). Real relations: The feminist politics of form in Australian fiction. Australian Historical Studies, 32 (116), 162-163.
Henderson, M. A. (2001). Review of Shameful Autobiographies, by Rosamund Dalziell. AUMLA Journal, 95 (May), 133-135.
Henderson, M. A. (2001). A Shifting Line Up: Men, Women, and Tracks Surfing Magazine.. Continuum, 15.3, 319-332.
Henderson, M. A. (2000). Australian Feminist Academic Journals: Still Here, Most of the Time. Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources, 21 (2), 11-13.
Henderson, M. A. (2000). The girl who met Simone de Beauvoir in Brisbane, or, must we burn Beauvoir?. Hecate, 26 (1), 113-117.
Henderson, M. A. (1999). Some tales of two mags: Sports magazines as glossy reservoirs of male fantasies. Journal of Australian Studies, 62, 64-75.
Henderson, M. A. (1999). Writing the self in/after the postmodern. LINQ, 25 (2), 9-21.
Henderson, M. A. (1999). Which crisis this time? One future of Australian Literary Studies. Southerly, 59 (3-4), 43-48.
Henderson, M. (1998). Australian Feminist Academic Journals: Still Here, Most of the Time. Australian Women's Book Review, 10, 14-15.
Rowlands, Shane and Henderson, Margaret (1996). Damned bores and slick sisters: the selling of blockbuster feminism in Australia. Australian Feminist Studies, 11 (23), 9-16. doi: 10.1080/08164649.1996.9994800
Newspaper Article
Thesis
Henderson, Margaret (1997). Women/postmodernism/Australia : Australian women's writing and postmodern discourse. PhD Thesis, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/29c414a