Gender and Cultural Studies: Recent submissions
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Towards new future terrains: Reorienting Asiatic femininities in the speculative imagination
Published 2018-05-24This thesis investigates Asian feminist imaginations of the future through the lens of speculative fiction. It aims to revise binary techno-orientalist understandings of Asia and its subjectivities predominant in Western ...Open AccessThesis -
True Black Metal: Authenticity, Nostalgia, and Transgression in the Black Metal Scene
Published 2018-05-24Black metal as a distinct genre of popular music is characterized by a general yearning for authenticity. This authenticity can be expressed through production values, musical techniques adopted, and style of dress and ...Open AccessThesis -
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 -
‘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 -
Culture, Value and Commensuration: The knowledge politics of indicators.
Published 2015-01-01Open AccessBook chapter