Honours theses: Recent submissions
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A Wish for More Archers: Archers at the Battle of Agincourt, 1415
Published 2015-01-01A knight expressed the desire to his king that he would add to their small army ten thousand of the best archers in England. This thesis utilizes archaeology evidence, financial records, iconographic depictions, literary ...Open AccessThesis -
Public and Private Parents: The Gendered Division of Labour and Australian Paid Parental Leave Policy
Published 2015-01-01Since the 1970s, the gendered division of household labour has been an important issue for both academic disciplines and policy-makers. This thesis considers the gendered division of labour in relation to Australian family ...Open AccessThesis -
Medical Curiosity and Tabloid Freakery: Contrasting Media Representations of Trans Children and Adults
Published 2015-01-01In 2014, the US edition of TIME magazine ran a cover story featuring Laverne Cox entitled ‘The Transgender Tipping Point’ that declared a new frontier for civil rights in North America. The article both refers to and ...Open AccessThesis -
The idea of ‘genocide’ in the Australian context 1959-1978
Published 2015-01-01This study attempts to trace the meaning of the word ‘genocide’ in its use in the Australian context. Adopting an historical contextualist approach. the study finds that ‘genocide’ emerged in 1959, in the assimilation ...Open AccessThesis -
Becoming Rower: Male Embodiment and Intimacy in an Inner West Rowing Club
Published 2015-01-01While sociological analyses of masculine sporting cultures have provided us with adept explorations of discursive practices in the field, I suggest that there are deeper modalities of communication in which athlete’s ...Open AccessThesis