Women's Studies News
Semester Two 2009
Staff News
Dr Sharon Bickle has received a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Queensland; we wish her very well in her new endeavour.
Maryanne Dever, Sally Newman and Ann Vickery recently launched The Intimate Archive: Journeys through private papers in both Melbourne and Sydney; our congratulations to all three.
Jane Carey has recently launched two edited collections: Leigh Boucher, Jane Carey, and Katherine Ellinghaus (eds), Re-Orienting Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the History of an Identity (New York: Palgrave, 2009) and Jane Carey and Claire McLisky (eds), Creating White Australia (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2009). Many congratulations, Jane.
Recent Activities and Achievements
In September, we held a postgraduate symposium where all postgraduate students of the Centre presented their work. It was exciting to hear about the great work our students are doing; we plan to make this a regular event. Thanks to Steven Angelides for his organisation.Recent Staff and Postgraduate Publications
- Carey, J. (2009) ‘A Transnational Project? Women and Gender in the Social Sciences in Australia, 1890-1945’, Women’s History Review, 18, no. 1.
- Fraser, S. (2009). Agency made over? Cosmetic surgery and femininity in women's magazines and makeover television. In M. Jones and C. Heyes (Eds), Cosmetic surgery: A feminist primer. Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
- Fraser, S., Valentine, K., & Roberts, C. (Eds) (2009). Living Drugs, Special issue of Science as Culture, 18 (2).
- Maher, J. (2009) ‘Accumulated time, accumulating value: mothers beyond the conflicting temporalities of caring and work’, Time & Society 18(2): 231-245
Semester One 2009
New Staff
We are very happy to welcome Dr Jane Carey (who will be commencing with us in April). Jane was successful in her Monash Fellowship application, and is jointly hosted with the Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies in the Faculty of Arts. The Centre now has three teaching and research staff and five research staff, making it one of the largest Women's and Gender Studies programs in Australia.Staff News
Dr Suzanne Fraser was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2009; many congratulations to Suzanne.
Dr Sharon Bickle has competed her Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Centre, a highlight of which was the publication of her volume The Fowl and the Pussycat: Love Letters of Michael Field, 1875-1909 (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, Dec 2008). Sharon will continue to teach with us in Semester One, 2009.
Dr Ann Vickery (Monash Fellow) will be completing her time with us and moving to take up a Senior Lectureship at Deakin University in July. Our congratulations to Ann, although we will very much miss her contribution to the Centre.
Recent Activities and Achievements
Dr JaneMaree Maher was recently been appointed to the Advertising Standards Board of Australia; this is a national Board that makes decisions on community complaints about advertisements.
Associate Professor Maryanne Dever, Dr Ann Vickery and Dr Sally Newman are looking forward to the publication of their jointly authored monograph The Intimate Archive: Journeys through Private Papers (Canberra: National Library of Australia).
Recent Staff and Postgraduate Publications
- Fraser, S. (2008). Getting out in the 'real world' Young men, queer and theories of gay community. Journal of Homosexuality 55(2): 185-203.
- Fraser, S. (2008). Hooked on the abstract: Cosmetic surgery, sociology and feminist theory [Review essay]. Australian Feminist Studies, 23(55), 159-162.
- Maher, J. (2008) 'Forming Australian Families: Gender ideologies and policy settings', Social Policy Review 20:263-278.
- Maher, J., Lindsay, J & Franzway, S (2008) 'Time, caring labour and social policy: understanding the family time economy in contemporary families', Work, Employment & Society 22(3): 547-588.
- Maher, J. & Chng, H.H. (2008). 'Gender, space and discourse across borders: Talking gender in cyberspace', Feminist Teacher 18 (3): 202-215.
- Mitchell, J., Maher, J. & Brown, K. (2008) 'Keeping up and keeping it together: Tertiary arts students managing health, family and self-esteem', Issues in Educational Research 18 (1) http://www.iier.org.au/iier18/mitchell.html
2008: 21 years of the Centre for Women’s Studies
The Centre 21st Commemorative Year was launched with a Public Lecture and Graduate Master Class delivered by Professor Robyn Wiegman from Duke University. This was a great event attended by many past staff and students of the Centre. See the event report here.
Suzanne Fraser received an ARC Discovery Grant (2008-2010) Under construction: the social and cultural politics of hepatitis C in Australia [with Associate Professor Carla Treloar & Associate Professor David Moore, UNSW]. Many congratulations, Suzanne.
Dr Ann Vickery, with Dr Margaret Henderson from the University of Queensland, successfully convened Manifesting Literary Feminisms: Drafts, Grafts, Nexus, and Faultlines at theMonash University City Campus in December.