Janet Scarfe

Scarfe was born in 1947.{{Cite web |title=Janet Scarfe |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/people/824084 |access-date=2022-05-25 |website=trove.nla.gov.au}}

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.{{Cite web |title=Janet Scarfe |url=https://theconversation.com/profiles/janet-scarfe-247284 |access-date=2022-05-25 |website=The Conversation |language=en}}

In 2008, Scarfe commenced as an Adjunct Research Associate at Monash University.

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.{{Cite web |title=Gone to War as Sister: East Melbourne Nurses in the Great War {{!}} East Melbourne Historical Society |url=https://emhs.org.au/catalogue/embk0122 |access-date=2022-05-27 |website=emhs.org.au}}

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.{{Cite book |last=Scarfe |first=Janet |title=Preachers, Prophets and Heretics: Women's Ministry in the Anglican Church of Australia |work= |publisher=NewSouth Publishing |year=2012 |isbn=9781742233376 |editor-last=Lindsay |editor-first=Elaine |location=Sydney |pages=122–3 |chapter=Movement for the ordination of women: their hearts in their mouths}}

Patricia Brennan was the founding national President.{{Cite book |last=O'Brien |first=Anne |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/65165585 |title=God's willing workers : women and religion in Australia |date=2005 |publisher=University of New South Wales Press |isbn=0-86840-575-2 |location=Sydney |pages=241 |oclc=65165585}} Janet Scarfe succeeded Brennan in 1989. Scarfe was the president of the Movement for the Ordination of Women in Australia from 1989 to 1995.{{Cite web |title=Thirty Years Since 1992 {{!}} MOWATCH Movement for the Ordination of Women in the Anglican Church |url=https://mowatch.com.au/thirty-years-since-1992/ |access-date=2022-05-25 |website=mowatch.com.au}}

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.

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.{{Cite journal |last=Scarfe |first=Janet |title=Journeying together on the freedom bus [History of the movement for ordination of women in the Anglican Church.] |url=https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/ielapa.200709492 |journal=Women-Church: An Australian Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion |issue=40 |pages=47–51 }}

Scarfe's papers, including the records of the Movement for the Ordination of Women Australia, are housed at the State Library of South Australia.{{Cite web |title=Papers of Janet Scarfe including records of the Movement for the Ordination of Women Australia (MOW) • Mixed material • State Library of South Australia |url=https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+1749 |access-date=2022-05-25 |website=collections.slsa.sa.gov.au}}{{Cite web |title=MOW Records (updated) {{!}} MOWATCH Movement for the Ordination of Women in the Anglican Church |url=https://mowatch.com.au/mow-history/mow-records/ |access-date=2022-05-27 |website=mowatch.com.au}}

• Lindsay, Elaine, and Janet Scarfe. Preachers, Prophets and Heretics: Anglican Women's Ministry. University of New South Wales Press Ltd, 2012. {{ISBN|9781742233376}}{{Cite journal|last=Corfield|first=Tim|date=2015-09-28|title=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=Journal for the Academic Study of Religion|volume=28|issue=3|pages=344–345|doi=10.1558/jasr.v28i3.26163|issn=1031-2943|doi-access=free}}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)
• {{Citation | author1=Scarfe, Janet | author2=Scarfe, Suzanne | title=The Campbells of Anlaby, 1860-1940 | date=22 February 2021 | url=https://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an68813242 | isbn=9780648938804 }}

• 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 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.35210488 Digitised version of no. 40 (2007) available on JSTOR Open Community Collections] [https://www.jstor.org/site/university-of-divinity/ 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.].” [https://www.eurekastreet.com.au/uploads/File/pdf/EurekaStreetClassic/Vol6No2.pdf Eureka Street 6, no. 2 (1996)]: 29–31.

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