Browsing Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework by title
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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 -
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 -
“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 -
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 -
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 -
“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 -
“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 -
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 -
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 -
Sojourner intimacies: Chinese international students negotiating dating in Sydney
Published 2018-01-01Despite being a large community of sojourners making up 30% of the total international student population in Australia (End of Year Summary of International Student Enrolment Data, 2017), Chinese international students’ ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Think Global, Reconfigure the Local: How Intermediaries Articulate Pro-Environmental Values and Practices
Published 2018-05-24Contemporary debates about the conservation of natural ecosystems and resources owe most of their influence to the rise of sustainable development, or, sustainability. Since its inception, ‘sustainability’ has become the ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
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, Honours -
True Black Metal: Authenticity, Nostalgia, and Transgression in the Black Metal Scene
Published 2017-09-20Black 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, Honours