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Janet Scarfe (born 1947) is an Australian academic and historian who was very involved with the Movement for the Ordination of Women (MOW) in Australia.
Janet Scarfe | |
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Born | Janet Scarfe 1947 (age 76–77) |
Nationality | Australian |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | Movement for the Ordination of Women |
Institutions | Macquarie University |
Notable works | Preachers, Prophets & Heretics : Anglican Women's Ministry (2012) |
Scarfe was born in 1947.[1]
Her research interests include pioneering professional women, specifically Australian army nurses serving in World War I and World War II and the first generation of women clergy in the Anglican Church in Australia.[2]
In 2008, Scarfe commenced as an Adjunct Research Associate at Monash University.[2]
In 2015, Scarfe curated an exhibition sponsored by the East Melbourne Historical Society titled Gone to War as Sister: East Melbourne Nurses in the Great War.[2][3]
The Australian Movement for the Ordination of Women (MOW) was founded in 1983 to advocate for the ordination of women as deacons, priests and bishops in the Anglican Church of Australia.[4]
Patricia Brennan was the founding national President.[5] Janet Scarfe succeeded Brennan in 1989.[4] Scarfe was the president of the Movement for the Ordination of Women in Australia from 1989 to 1995.[6]
In 2012, Scarfe co-edited and was a contributor to the monograph, Preachers, Prophets and Heretics: Anglican Women's Ministry, with Elaine Lindsay. The publication was a collection of essays that documented the controversy surrounding the ordination of women in the Anglican Church of Australia in the 1980s and 1990s.[2]
Scarfe also contributed articles to Women-Church: an Australian journal of feminist studies in religion, including an article in the journal's final issue that documented a history of the movement for ordination of women in the Anglican Church.[7]
Scarfe's papers, including the records of the Movement for the Ordination of Women Australia, are housed at the State Library of South Australia.[8][9]
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