Pub Date : 2023-02-16DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2023.2176818
Emma Phillips
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Pub Date : 2023-02-14DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2023.2177829
S. Webster, Fiona Allon
{"title":"Domus, Dream, Domicide: Home as Limit Point in the Pyrocene Lessons from the ‘Black Summer’ Australian Bushfires","authors":"S. Webster, Fiona Allon","doi":"10.1080/08164649.2023.2177829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2023.2177829","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46443,"journal":{"name":"Australian Feminist Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46224133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-03DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2023.2173140
A. O’Brien
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2022.2130170
Leah Nichol
ABSTRACT The Australian Women’s Weekly (the Weekly) has long been regarded as a publication that built its success upon espousing a traditional femininity to Australian women through its features on home, family and fashion. The advent of second-wave feminism in the early 1970s prompted swift and radical critiques of the role of women in Australian society, with women’s magazines one key focus for these critiques. To maintain its cultural relevance and mainstream appeal, it was necessary for the Weekly to keep pace with social change, compelling the magazine to question the role it played in perpetuating the inequality of women. This article explores the Weekly’s engagement with the Australian women’s movement of the 1970s, with particular emphasis on the ways in which the Royal Commission on Human Relationships influenced the publication’s reporting between 1977 and 1980. The Commission’s commitment to making the personal political through listening to people’s experiences, especially those of women, was replicated in the Weekly through its 1980 Voice of the Australian Woman project. Analysis of the magazine during this period reveals the ways in which the ideas of the Australian women’s movement had permeated the mainstream by the later 1970s.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2022.2095613
Finola Laughren
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2022.2095612
Sarah McCook
ABSTRACT Engaging men and boys to address the links between masculinity and gendered violence is a rapidly expanding space for primary prevention, in Australia and globally. There are parallel debates within feminist commentary on violence prevention and in masculinity studies over how to conceptualise and deconstruct masculinity for the long-term transformation of gender inequality. This article analyses semi-structured interviews with Australian prevention practitioners whose work focuses on engaging men and boys, which included initiatives aimed at gender equality, healthy masculinity, preventing violence against women, and domestic/family violence prevention. Interviews highlighted that these practitioners are currently grappling with how to address masculinity as a construct and/or a normative process within their work to achieve gender transformative change. These tensions reflect ongoing concerns over reproducing narrow associations between men and masculinity that perpetuate essentialised identity categories. Importantly, I question whether a focus on ‘positive’ or ‘healthy’ masculinities can effectively go beyond the binary gender relations that underpin gendered violence. The research findings suggest a need for greater reflexive and creative thinking around how men and masculinity are (de)centred within violence prevention to better support gender transformation.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2022.2064818
Harriette Richards
ABSTRACT This article investigates New Zealand author Janet Frame’s relationship to clothes in the three volumes of her autobiography, To the Is-land, An Angel at My Table and Envoy from Mirror City. It uses the concept of ‘frock consciousness’ – conceived by Virginia Woolf in 1925 as an idea through which to explore one of the many states of consciousness a person may inhabit – as a tool through which to unpack how Frame fashioned her life through writing. Like Woolf, Frame was profoundly aware of the power of clothes to shape one’s sense of self and inform the representation of this self and others through writing. She was also fraught by an ambiguous relationship to fashion and dress, simultaneously enchanted and embittered. For Frame, clothes were key to her negotiation of the external ‘real’ world and her inner ‘other’ world; fundamental to her subjectivity. Reading Frame’s autobiography through her frock consciousness, I argue, provides important insight into her experiences of loss and the codes of (in)sanity with which she was inscribed, as well as furthering our understandings of the complex, intimate roles fashion plays in the creative and everyday lives of women.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2022.2051165
Ally Bisshop
ABSTRACT This article explores the death/life ecologies that flourish along the queered axes of spider reproductive behaviours – from cannibalistic sex to matricidal birth – and how the language and concepts used to describe these behaviours both reflect and distort heteronormative human accounts of gender/sex, life/death and thresholds between. It recalibrates storied accounts of spider sex, life and death through a critical, creative posthumanist approach to nonhuman life as zoē (Braidotti). It presents a queered reading of spider ethologies in which death is not life’s programmatic terminus, but another zoētic expression of desire: the endless reaching for affirmative becomings through (re)productive comminglings of bodies – whether by penetration, modulation, ingestion, or absorption. It argues how a spiderly weaving together of sex and death effects the conditions for the creative survival (inherence) of life itself. This zoētic analysis of spider ethologies proposes a novel figuration: the arachnomad – a sensuous assemblage of spider, web, affects and tangents – as a material model and heuristic for understanding nomadic subjectivities, and for queering the life/death relation.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2022.2092836
E. Torzillo, H. Goodall
ABSTRACT The Women’s Commission held in Sydney in March 1973, was organised by Women’s Liberation as a ‘speak out’, allowing the theories and practices of the new wave women’s movement to be shared and contested. This paper investigates tensions around lesbianism and feminism by considering both archival evidence from 1973 of the Commission’s ‘Women as Sex Objects’ session and oral histories undertaken in 2003 with five participants, each at some stage identifying as lesbian. Both archives and the later reflective interviews have been revisited recently in the light of feminist and queer theory. The paper identifies three themes in Commission tensions: emotions, including entangled relationships, as motivations; changing views on gender fluidity; and marginalisation. Both archive and oral history are needed to allow a deeper understanding of each theme, all three of which continue to shape the women’s movement.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2022.2103395
Jasmine Sandes
ABSTRACT This article discusses cinematic engagement with cyclical gendered violence and a present saturated in crisis in the film Lucky. As part of the broader cultural conversation about gendered violence and the #MeToo movement, this film presents an image of life after trauma and the dissonance between neoliberal feminisms that champion ‘self-empowerment’, and the ongoing crisis-state of traumatic aftermath. I argue that Lucky depicts the failures of postfeminist sensibilities to address systemic gendered violence, and the continued exclusion of women of colour from movements like #MeToo. Lucky staunchly resists demands for closure over trauma. This article explores the film’s lack of resolution and perpetual sense of confusion as literalising the idea of living through a contemporary moment saturated in crisis. I argue that the film demonstrates both institutional and interpersonal failures to adequately respond to gendered violence, gesturing towards the need for support networks between victim-survivors.
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