Australian academic and historian
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 .
Early life and career
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]
Movement for the Ordination of Women
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]
Selected works
Books
Journal articles
Scarfe, Janet. “Mixed Fortunes:
The Postwar Lives of East Melbourne’s Great War Nurses .”
Victorian Historical Journal 88, no. 2 (2017): 256–280.
Scarfe, Janet. “
Changed Rules, Changing Culture? The Ordination of Women .” St Mark's Review 228, no. 228 (2014): 51–58.
Scarfe, Janet. “
Journeying Together on the Freedom Bus [History of the Movement for Ordination of Women in the Anglican Church.] .”
Women-Church: An Australian Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion no. 40 (2007): 47–51.
https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/ielapa.200709492
Digitised version of no. 40 (2007) available on JSTOR Open Community Collections
University of Divinity Digital Collections ,
Mannix Library .
Scarfe, Janet. “Necessary, but Not Sufficient [the Ordination of Women in the Anglican Church Has Not Produced the Anticipated Transformation of the Church, and Sexism and Clericalism Still Prevail.].”
Eureka Street 6, no. 2 (1996) : 29–31.
References
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"Janet Scarfe" . trove.nla.gov.au . Retrieved 25 May 2022 .
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"Janet Scarfe" . The Conversation . Retrieved 25 May 2022 .
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"Gone to War as Sister: East Melbourne Nurses in the Great War | East Melbourne Historical Society" . emhs.org.au . Retrieved 27 May 2022 .
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b Scarfe, Janet (2012). "Movement for the ordination of women: their hearts in their mouths". In Lindsay, Elaine (ed.). Preachers, Prophets and Heretics: Women's Ministry in the Anglican Church of Australia . Sydney: NewSouth Publishing. pp. 122–3.
ISBN
9781742233376 .
^ O'Brien, Anne (2005).
God's willing workers : women and religion in Australia . Sydney: University of New South Wales Press. p. 241.
ISBN
0-86840-575-2 .
OCLC
65165585 .
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"Thirty Years Since 1992 | MOWATCH Movement for the Ordination of Women in the Anglican Church" . mowatch.com.au . Retrieved 25 May 2022 .
^ Scarfe, Janet.
"Journeying together on the freedom bus [History of the movement for ordination of women in the Anglican Church.]" . Women-Church: An Australian Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (40): 47–51.
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"Papers of Janet Scarfe including records of the Movement for the Ordination of Women Australia (MOW) • Mixed material • State Library of South Australia" . collections.slsa.sa.gov.au . Retrieved 25 May 2022 .
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"MOW Records (updated) | MOWATCH Movement for the Ordination of Women in the Anglican Church" . mowatch.com.au . Retrieved 27 May 2022 .
^ Corfield, Tim (28 September 2015).
"Elaine Lindsay and Janet Scarfe (eds.), Preachers, Prophets and Heretics: Anglican Women's Ministry. New South Publishing, Sydney, 2012, pp. 400, ISBN: 978-1-74223337-6 (pbk)" . Journal for the Academic Study of Religion . 28 (3): 344–345.
doi :
10.1558/jasr.v28i3.26163 .
ISSN
1031-2943 .
^ Dawson, Jennifer. 2013. “Preachers, Prophets and Heretics: Anglican Women’s Ministry.” Colloquium 45 (1): 107–10.
^ Webster-Hawes, Anastasia. 2014. “Preachers, Prophets and Heretics: Anglican Women’s Ministry.” St Mark’s Review 230 (December)
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