School of Humanities: Recent submissions
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Menstruating the Past, Consuming the Future: Analysing Sanitary Hygiene Products through the work of Walter Benjamin
Published 2011-01-01This thesis explores how the menstruating subject is articulated in contemporary consumer culture and through practices of consumption. This results in an alternate reading of the menstruating subject that brings together ...Open AccessThesis -
An Intimate Revolution: Fascism, Sexuality and Kommune I in 1960s West Germany
Published 2011-01-01Subversive voices within the German New Left developed a discourse which linked the rise of fascism in Germany with repressed sexuality. In response, a group of Berlin students founded a commune in 1967, attempting to ...Open AccessThesis -
An Era of Two Images: Japan in the Eyes of the Australian Public 1950-1960
Published 2011-01-01Since Federation Australia had largely regarded Japan as a nation that posed a direct threat to its way of life, a view seemingly proved correct in World War Two. Yet by the end of the 1950s, a mere fifteen years after the ...Open AccessThesis -
'A Poisonous Cup?’ Afternoon Tea in Australian Society, 1870-1914
Published 2011-01-01This thesis examines the ceremonies and rituals that emerged around the taking of afternoon tea in Australia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Drawing on recent historiography of manners and social ...Open AccessThesis -
Defining the Nation: The Wider Discussions on White Australia and the Japanese Racial Equality Clause
Published 2011-01-01Australia’s involvement in the rejection of the Japanese racial equality clause, at the Peace Conference of 1919, has been noted by contemporaries and historians as a significant event in Australia’s nationalism. Often ...Open AccessThesis