Anita Harris
Anita Harris is a Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Political and Social Inquiry. She has a BA (Hons)(1990) and a PhD(1997) from the University of Melbourne. Prior to commencing her current position she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Womens Studies and Gender Research, Monash University, and a Lecturer in Womens Studies at Deakin University. She commenced her academic career teaching Politics and researching in Youth Studies and Criminology at the University of Melbourne. She currently teaches classical and contemporary social theory in SCY 2100 Sociological Perspectives, and the sociology of youth in SCY 2121 Youth, Culture and Social Change. She is the Sociology Postgraduate Coordinator.
Her research interests include youth identities; citizenship, rights and social change; feminist, political and social theory, new social movements and postmodern politics. Her current research explores the impact of globalisation and de-industrialisation on contemporary constructions of youth and especially girlhood and young people and new forms of civic engagement. She is co-editor of the Journal of Intercultural Studies (with Jan van Bommel). See the Journals webpage at: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/07256868.asp
Recent Publications Include:
Books
Future Girl: Young Women in the Twenty-First Century, New York: Routledge. 2004.
Young Femininity: Girlhood, Power and Social Change, Palgrave: London (with Sinikka Aapola and Marnina Gonick). Forthcoming 2004.
All About the Girl: Power, Culture and Identity (edited), New York: Routledge. Forthcoming 2004.
Any Which Way You Can: Youth Livelihood, Community Resources and Crime, Australian Youth Foundation: Sydney (with Megan Aumair, Liz McDonnell and Rob White). 1997.
Articles
'Discourses of Desire as Governmentality: Young Women, Sexuality and the Significance of Safe Spaces', Feminism and Psychology special issue: Theory, practice and research on female adolescent sexuality: Emergent discourses of desire, Deborah L. Tolman (ed), forthcoming, 2004.
'gURL Scenes and Grrrl Zines: Girlhood, Power and Risk Under Late Modernity', Feminist Review, 75, November: 38-56, 2003.
'Young Australian Women: Circumstances and Aspirations', Youth Studies Australia, 21, (4): 32-37, 2002.
'Dodging and Weaving: Young Women Countering the Stories of Youth Citizenship', International Journal of Critical Psychology, 4, (2), December: 183-199, 2001.
'Counter Work', International Journal of Critical Psychology, 4,(2): 6-18 (with Michelle Fine and Sarah Carney), 2001.
'Revisiting Bedroom Culture: Spaces for Young Women's Politics',Hecate , 27, (1): 128-138, 2001.
'Riding My Own Tidal Wave: Young Women's Feminist Work', Canadian Womens Studies Journal, Special Issue: Young Women: Feminists, Activists, Grrrls, Winter/Spring, 20/21,(4/1): 27-31, 2001.
'Not Drowning or Waving: Young Feminism and the Limits of the Third Wave Debate', Outskirts , May, 2001.
'Doing it Differently: Young Women Managing Heterosexuality in Australia, Finland & Canada', Journal of Youth Studies, 3, (3): 376-387 (with Sinikka Aapola & Marnina Gonick), 2000.
'Everything A Teenage Girl Should Know: Adolescence and the Production of Femininity', Women's Studies Journal, 15, (2), Spring: 111-124, 1999.
'Multiple Economic Spheres and Youth Livelihood', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 33, (1) February: 37-57 (with Liz McDonnell & Rob White), 1998.
Chapters in Books:
'Youth Experiences of Surveillance: A Cross National Analysis', in Globalizing the Streets: Cross-cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control and Empowerment in the New Millennium, Michael Flynn (ed), Columbia University Press: New York, (with Martin Ruck, Michelle Fine and Nick Freudenberg), forthcoming 2004.
Contemporary Australian Youth Research: Focus on Gender, Jahrbuch Jugendforschung 2004 , H. Merkins and J. Zinnecker (eds), Leske+Budrich, Opladen, forthcoming 2004.
'Jamming Girl Culture: Young Women and Consumer Citizenship', All About the Girl: Culture, Power and Identity, Anita Harris (ed), Routledge: New York and London, forthcoming 2004.
'Meanings of Sexual Maturity for Young Australian Women and Men', Youth in Everyday Life Contexts, Vesa Puuronen (ed), University of Joensuu: Joensuu, 1999.
'Youth At Work: Issues and Dilemmas', Against the Odds: Young People and Work in Australia, Judith Bessant & Sandy Cook (eds), National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies: Hobart (with White & McDonnell), 1998.
'Is DIY DOA? Zines and the Revolution, Grrrl-Style', AustralianYouth Subcultures: On the Margins and in the Mainstream, Rob White (ed), National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies: Hobart, 1998.
'Responsibility and Advocacy: Representing Young Women', Representing the Other: A Feminism and Psychology Reader , Sue Wilkinson & Celia Kitzinger (eds), Sage: London, 1996.
Postgraduate research students currently being supervised include:
Paul O'Connor (PhD)
Thesis
Title: Islam in Hong Kong
Supervisors: Dr Anita
Harris and Dr
Andrew Singleton
Siti Syamsiyatun (PhD
)
Thesis Title: The
Indonesian women's movement since the rise of the new order:
Dealing with the state, socio-economic changes and religion
Supervisors: Dr Anita Harris and Dr
Susan Blackburn
Jessica Tatham-Thompson
(PhD
)
Thesis Title: Teenage
mothers perception of pregnancy as empowerment: An examination of
the psychosocial criteria influencing teenage pregnancy in contemporary
Australia
Supervisors: Dr Anita Harris and
Dr Jo Lindsay