Browsing Gender and Cultural Studies by publication year
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Grassroots and Digital Branches in the Age of Transversal Politics
Published 2001-01-01Open AccessBook chapter -
Redden, G. (2003). "Read the Whole Thing: Journalism, Weblogs and the Re-mediation of the War in Iraq."
Published 2003-01-01The Net’s uses are now diverse, covering many aspects of commerical, public and private life. The idea that it transforms all activities in the same or equivalent ways is no longer tenable. This paper examines a particular ...Open AccessArticle -
Intellectual disability, sensation and thinking through affect
Published 2007-01-01Open AccessBook chapter -
The Great British Binge Drinking Debate
Published 2008-01-01Guy Redden questions some of the assumptions behind recent measures to discourage binge drinking.Open AccessArticle -
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, Honours -
Seeing blue: negotiating the politics of Avatar media activism
Published 2011-01-01This thesis examines how the Hollywood blockbuster Avatar (2009) has been taken-up in media activism directed towards Indigenous struggles against imperialism. It assumes the importance of locating this phenomenon within ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
'What A Girl Wants, What A Girl Needs': Father-Daughter Intimacies in Therapeutic Literature and Teen Film
Published 2012-01-01This dissertation tracks the operations of broken family discourse through both therapeutic literature and popular teen film. It is interested in the way that young women and girls are implicated in supporting and maintaining ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
“Say no to burqas”: geographies of nation and citizenship in Newtown
Published 2012-01-01This thesis is concerned with the ways in which instances of everyday racism reproduce geographies of national belonging and exclusion in the city, focusing specifically on an activist campaign in Newtown, Australia, which ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Snog, Marry or Avoid? Class, taste and the making of selfhood in makeover televison
Published 2012-01-01‘Snog, Marry or Avoid?: Class, taste and the labour of selfhood in makeover television’, is an exploration of the way social stratification is visited on individual and collective corporeality, externalised through the ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Ditch the Witch: Julia Gillard and gender in Australian public discourse
Published 2013-01-01This thesis explores the interplay of gender, media, politics and women’s political representation in Australia. I examine how the Australian media has tended to reinforce rather than challenge dominant cultural aspects ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
“Quality TV”: The reinvention of U.S. television
Published 2013-01-01This thesis examines the rise to prominence of a new form of “quality television” that has appeared in the U.S. since the 1990s. There are competing and sometimes conflicting ways to define “quality television”, depending ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Ventriloqueer: Finding Voice in the Strange Boyhoods of Disney Princesses
Published 2013-01-01This thesis considers two samples from the Disney Princess film canon as texts that can speak to, and be reclaimed in the name of, queer experience. Ron Clements and John Musker’s The Little Mermaid (1989), and Nathan Greno ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Brief Encounter: Sex and Intimacy in Andrew Haigh’s "Weekend"
Published 2013-01-01This thesis is an exploration of the representation of gay male intimacy in Andrew Haigh’s "Weekend" (2011), a film about a brief encounter between two men. The thesis stages a second brief encounter between Haigh’s film ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
“HAIR IS IT, FOR AFRICANS:” African-Australian Hair Stories
Published 2013-01-01This thesis examines the relationship African-Australian men and women have with their hair. Through open-ended interviews with seven African-Australian men and women, aged 22-63, this thesis analyses the cultural significance ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Bearing Responsibility:Reconceiving RU486 and the regulation of women's reproductive decisions
Published 2014-01-01This thesis explores the status of abortion in Australia and analyses the representations of women that are produced and relied upon in public discourse on this issue. Drawing predominantly on the field of corporeal feminist ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
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, Honours -
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, Honours -
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, Honours -
Culture, Value and Commensuration: The knowledge politics of indicators.
Published 2015-01-01Open AccessBook chapter