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Archiving Greer/Greer Archiving: Germaine Greer’s curatorial labour, feminist celebrity studies and archival methodologies
Published 2023This article draws upon my engagement with the archive of controversial Australian celebrity feminist Germaine Greer to think through the role of archival methodologies within the field of feminist celebrity studies, ...Open AccessArticle -
Awkward Sex: Revisiting Rosalind Gill’s Sex Advice Repertoires in the Context of New Media Listicles
Published 2017-09-12This thesis revisits Rosalind Gill’s 2009 influential study of sex-advice columns in Glamour (UK) magazine in order to test her arguments about mediated intimacy within the new media genre of the listicle. This is achieved ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Awkward Sex: Revisiting Rosalind Gill’s Sex Advice Repertoires in the Context of New Media Listicles
Published 2018-05-24This thesis revisits Rosalind Gill’s 2009 influential study of sex-advice columns in Glamour (UK) magazine in order to test her arguments about mediated intimacy within the new media genre of the listicle. This is achieved ...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 -
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 -
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 -
Chinese Food in Australia: Diaspora, taste, and affect
Published 2018-05-24This thesis examines the political and cultural significance of Chinese food in Australia by considering its specific discourses and representations. It begins by mapping the politicised history of early Chinese food in ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
COVID-19 and Well-Being of Non-local Students: Implications for International Higher Education Governance
Published 2022Non-local students have been one of the worst affected groups during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of them live in foreign countries/regions with limited social and economic support. This study examines the effects of the ...Article -
Culture, Value and Commensuration: The knowledge politics of indicators.
Published 2015-01-01Open AccessBook chapter -
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 -
Drugs as technologies of the self: Enhancement and transformation in LGBTQ cultures
Published 2020The consumption of drugs has long been a mainstay of urban queer cultures and it is well-recognised that complex connections exist between sexual minoritisation and desires to chemically alter bodily experience. Yet despite ...Open AccessArticle -
Grassroots and Digital Branches in the Age of Transversal Politics
Published 2001-01-01Open 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 -
“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 -
‘Hey, mate!’: Intervening the masculinity crisis in ABC’s Man Up
Published 2018-05-24This thesis explores the complex entanglements between governmentality, masculinity, health, and mateship in the television series Man Up (2016). Man Up was a three-part documentary series broadcast by the ABC in 2016 that ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Injecting as a sexual practice: Cultural formations of ‘slamsex’.
Published 2021‘Slamsex’ has emerged in gay vernacular in recent years to denote a particular way of taking drugs and a particular kind of sex. Slamming refers in this context to the practice of injecting drugs – typically crystal ...Open AccessArticle -
Intellectual disability, sensation and thinking through affect
Published 2007-01-01Open AccessBook chapter -
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 -
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