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Robyn Rowland

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Robyn Rowland
Born1952 (age 71–72)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Wollongong
Academic work
InstitutionsDeakin University
Websitehttps://robynrowland.com/

Robyn Lea Rowland AO (born 1952)[1] is an Irish Australian poet, writer and retired academic.

Biography

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Rowland, a third generation Irish Australian, was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1952.[2] While researching her PhD, Rowland worked as a part-time tutor at the University of Wollongong.[3]

Rowland was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia in the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours for "service to women's issues, particularly in the fields of higher education and health as Foundation Head of the School of Social Inquiry at Deakin University and Director of the Australian Women's Research Centre".[4]

Selected works

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Nonfiction

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  • Rowland, Robyn (1984), Women who do and women who don't join the women's movement, London Routledge & Kegan Paul, ISBN 978-0-7102-0296-3
  • — (1988), Woman herself: a transdisciplinary perspective on women's identity, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-554475-6
  • — (1992), Living laboratories: women and reproductive technologies, Indiana University Press, ISBN 978-0-253-20760-9

Poetry

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References

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  1. ^ "Rowland, Robyn (1952–)". Trove. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Robyn Rowland". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  3. ^ University of Wollongong Archives (2014), n3a_25_09. 1977. Robyn Rowland, retrieved 2 November 2020
  4. ^ "Dr Robyn Lea Rowland". Australian Honours Search Facility, Dept of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
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