About the Author

Raelene Frances is Dean of Arts and Professor of History at Monash University. She has published widely on the history of work, womens history, Aboriginal/European contact history, religious and community history and co-edited Labour and the Great War. Her prize-winning books include The Politics of Work, and Women and the Great War (co-authored with Bruce Scates). Her history of prostitution, Selling Sex, was short-listed for the Ernest Scott Prize. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. Bruce Scates is professor of History and Australian Studies at Monash University and Director of the National Centre for Australian Studies. His books include Return to Gallipoli (2006), the Cambridge History of the Shrine of Remembrance (2009) and Women and the Great War (co-authored with Raelene Frances). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, chaired the Military and Cultural History panel advising the Australian Anzac Centenary Board, and is currently leading an international team investigating the history of Anzac Day.