Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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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 -
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 -
“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