Associate Professor Margaret Maynard
Honorary Associate Professor
School of Communication and Arts
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Researcher biography
Associate Professor Margaret Maynard’s research is interests include Australian dress, identity and fashion; fashion photography and gender studies.
Her current research includes dress studies, history of fashion, and Australian fashion photography.
She is the author of:
- Fashioned from Penury: Dress as Cultural Practice in Colonial Australia, CU Press (Cambridge University) 1994.
- Out of Line: Australian Women and Style, Uni. of New South Wales Press, 2001.
- Dress and Globalisation, Manchester Uni. Press, 2004.
Dr Maynard is a dress historian and an Honorary Consultant of the Queensland Museum.
Publications
Books
Maynard, Margaret (2022). Dressed in time: a world view. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Maynard, Margaret (2004). Dress and Globalisation. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.
Maynard, Margaret (2001). Out of Line. Australian Women and Style. 1 ed. Sydney, Australia: University of New South Wales Press.
Brown, Julie K. and Maynard, Margaret (1980). Fine art exhibitions in Brisbane, 1884-1916. St. Lucia, Qld. : Fryer Memorial Library, University of Queensland.
Book Chapters
Maynard, Margaret (2016). Status: 1805-1900. 200 years of Australian fashion. (pp. 10-25) Melbourne, VIC, Australia: National Gallery of Victoria.
Maynard, Margaret (2015). Queensland Fashion. Remotely fashionable: a story of subtropical style. (pp. 21-35) edited by Nadia Buick and Madeleine King. Brisbane, Qld, Australia: Fashion Archives.
Maynard, Margaret (2013). Fast fashion and sustainability. The Handbook of Fashion Studies. (pp. 542-556) edited by Sandy Black, Amy de la Haye, Joanne Entwistle, Agnès Rocamora, Regina Root and Helen Thomas. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic.
Maynard, Margaret (2012). Fashion modelling in Australia. Fashioning models: image, text and industry. (pp. 80-96) edited by Joanne Entwistle and Elizabeth Wissinger. New York, United States: Berg Publishers.
Maynard, Margaret (2012). Clothing: art clothes or wearable art?. Fashion and art. (pp. 145-154) edited by Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas. Oxford, United Kingdom: Berg Publishers.
Maynard, Margaret (2010). Globalization and dress. Berg encyclopedia of world dress and fashion. (pp. 252-263) edited by Joanne B. Eicher and Phyllis G. Tortora. Oxford, U.K.: Berg. doi: 10.2752/BEWDF/EDch10035
Maynard, Margaret (2010). Distance and respectability in Colonial Australia. The Fashion History Reader: Global Perspectives. (pp. 399-401) edited by Giorgio Riello and Peter McNeil. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge.
Maynard, Margaret and Macaskill, Philippa (2010). Akubra. Symbols of Australia Uncovering the Stories behind the Myths. (pp. 193-200) edited by Melissa Harper and Richard White. Sydney, NSW, Australia: UNSW Press and National Museum of Australia.
Maynard, Margaret (2010). Preface to Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. Berg encyclopaedia of world dress and fashion, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. (pp. xvii-xviii) edited by Margaret Maynard. Oxford, U.K.: Berg.
Maynard, Margaret (2010). Geographical and geopolitical introduction. Berg Encyclopedia of world dress and fashion/ vol. 7, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. (pp. 3-8) edited by Margaret Maynard. Oxford, U.K.: Berg.
Maynard, Margaret (2010). Economies and cultures of dress. Berg Encyclopedia of world dress and fashion: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. (pp. 9-13) edited by Margaret Maynard. Oxford, U.K.: Berg.
Maynard, Margaret (2009). The mystery of the fashion photograph. Fashion in fiction: Text and clothing in literature, film, and television. (pp. 55-66) edited by Peter McNeil, Vicki Karaminas and Catherine Cole. Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers.
Maynard, Margaret (2008). Doris Zinkeisen: New Idea portrait with leaf background. Harold Cazneaux: Artist in photography. (pp. 30-31) edited by Natasha Bullock. Sydney, Australia: Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Maynard, Margaret (2008). The fashion photograph: An 'ecology'. Fashion as photograph: Viewing and reviewing images of fashion. (pp. 54-69) edited by Eugenie Shinkle. New York, U.S.A.: I. B. Tauris.
Maynard, M. (2005). Australian dress. Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion. (pp. 101-104) edited by V. Steele. New York: Thomson Gale.
Maynard, Margaret (2002). Blankets: the visible politics of Indigenous clothing in Australia. Fashioning the body politic: dress, gender, citizenship. (pp. 189-204) edited by Wendy Parkins. Oxford, United Kingdom: Berg.
Maynard, M. (2000). Indigenous dress. Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture. (pp. 384-390) edited by Sylvia Kleiner and Margo Neale. Melbourne: Oxford UP.
Maynard, M. (2000). What to wear for Holy Communion. Imaginary Materials: a Seminar with Michael Carter. (pp. 23-27) edited by John Macarthur. Brisbane: IMA Publishing.
Journal Articles
Maynard, Margaret (2017). Fashion and air travel: Australian photography and style. Costume, 51 (1), 103-120. doi: 10.3366/cost.2017.0007
Maynard, Margaret (2016). Miss Scott’s world of colonial elegance. Gallery, 35.
Maynard, Margaret (2013). Queensland fashion: part two. The Fashion Archives, 1 (2).
Maynard, Margaret (2013). Queensland fashion: part three. The Fashion Archives, 1 (2).
Maynard, Margaret (2013). Queensland fashion: part one. The Fashion Archives, 1 (1).
Maynard, Margaret (2013). Review of Staging Fashion 1880-1920: Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burk. Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture, 17 (1), 123-128. doi: 10.2752/175174113X13502911680257
Maynard, Margaret (2013). Queensland clothing. Queensland Historical Atlas.
Maynard, Margaret (2007). 'Lady be beautiful': Selling corsets in the 1920s. Journal of Australian Studies, 31 (91), 145-153. doi: 10.1080/14443050709388136
Maynard, Margaret (2006). Dress for Dissent: Reading the Almost Unreadable. Journal of Australian Studies, 30 (89), 103-112. doi: 10.1080/14443050609388096
Maynard, Margaret (2006). Where Do Flappers Fit In?: The Photography of Modern Fashion in Australia. Australian Cultural History, 25, 273-290.
Maynard, M. (2005). Bound to please: A history of the victorian corset. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 27 (1), 99-101. doi: 10.1080/08905490500133196
Maynard, M. (2004). Narrating style. Photofile, 71 (Winter), 46-47.
Maynard, Margaret (2004). To look without: Artists' self portraits in Australia. Eyeline (55, Spring), 42-43.
Maynard, M. (2003). The Study of Dress History. Textile History, 34 (1), 89-90.
Maynard, Margaret (2001). Proliferating Habits: Leisure and clothing in the 1890s. Brisbane History Group Papers, 17, 43-51.
Maynard, M. (2001). Paperscapes. Eyeline, Spring (Special), 10-11.
Maynard, Margaret (2000). 'La Mode' - as Sacral?. Form/Work, 4, 19-25.
Maynard, M. (2000). Clothes encounters. The Bulletin, 118, 126-127.
Maynard, Margaret (2000). Staging masculinity: Late 19C photographs of indigenous men. Journal of Australian Studies, 24 (66), 129-137. doi: 10.1080/14443050009387618
Maynard, M. (2000). Grassroots style. Reevaluating Australian fashion and Aboriginal art in the 70s and 80s. Journal of Design History, 13 (2), 137-150. doi: 10.1093/jdh/13.2.137
Maynard, Margaret (2000). Tokyo Vogue: Couture at risk. Eyeline, 42 (Autumn/Winter), 20-42.
Maynard, M. (1999). Ann Maxwell: Colonial photography and exhibitions. Journal of Australian Studies (61), 202-203.
Maynard, Margaret (1999). Living dolls: The fashion model in Australia. Journal of Popular Culture, 33 (1), 191-205. doi: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1999.3301_191.x
Maynard, M. (1999). The Red Centre: The quest for 'authenticity' in Australian dress. Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, 3 (2), 175-196.
Maynard, M. (1990). Civilian clothing and fabric supplies: the development of fashionable dressing in Sydney, 1790-1830. Textile History, 21 (1), 87-100.
Maynard, Margaret. (1980). Aspects of taste : exhibitions of art in Brisbane 1876-1887. John Oxley journal: a bulletin for historical research in Queensland, 1 (6), 16-29.
Conference Paper
Maynard, Margaret (2009). What is "Australian" fashion photography? A dilemma. Oxford, England: Berg Publishers. doi: 10.2752/175174109X467477
Creative Work
Maynard, Margaret (2013). Dress: a future for its past. Sydney, Australia: Australian Dress Register.