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Women's Studies

Thesis Topics & Supervisors

PhD
Name Thesis Title / Topic Supervisor(s)
Zakiah Hasan Gaffar Deciding to migrate: Factors, influences and processes. The experiences of Indonesian women who migrated to Malaysia as domestic workers Assoc. Prof. Maryanne Dever / Dr Brett Hough
Houri Jahanshahrad The women's movement in Iran since 1906 (with a special focus on the last 30 years) Assoc. Prof. Maryanne Dever / Prof. Marian Quartly
Aquarini Prabasmoro Staging a Life: The Spectacle of Celebrity Auto / Biography Dr JaneMaree Maher / Assoc. Prof. Maryanne Dever
Karolyne Quinn Exploring the disembodying effects of talk therapy and the benefits of bodywork for women survivors of child sexual assault Dr JaneMaree Maher / Dr. Suzanne Fraser
Claire Tanner A cultural history of Victorian women's suffrage: Modernity, political processes, consumption / performance Prof. Marian Quartly / Assoc. Prof. Maryanne Dever
Shermal Wijewardene English Literature and Theatre Production in Sri Lanka and India Dr Steven Angelides / Dr JaneMaree Maher
Master of Arts (66% Research)
Name Thesis Title / Topic Supervisor(s)
Ann Brown The Politics of Reproduction Dr JaneMaree Maher / Assoc. Prof. Maryanne Dever
Neeti Aryal Motherhood in Armed Conflict Dr JaneMaree Maher / Dr. Suzanne Fraser
Recently Completed
Name Thesis Title / Topic Supervisor(s) Level Year
Cheryl Earnshaw Representing the community: A study of political representation and citizen participation in Victorian state and local government Assoc. Prof. Denise Cuthbert / Dr Anita Harris PhD 2009
Sally Newman Sites of desire: Reading the lesbian archive Assoc. Prof. Maryanne Dever / Prof. Marian Quartly / Dr Renee Hoogland PhD 2008
Kat Cain Gendered visions of technology: Analysis of imagery representing women and technology Dr JaneMaree Maher / Dr Rose Lucas MA 2008
Kylie Moppert Women entrepreneurs: Do they create organisations with humanistic cultural value systems? Assoc. Prof. Mayanne Dever / Dr JaneMaree Maher MA 2008
Myfanwy McDonald The production of intelligible gender: Dialogues between the medical and the social Assoc. Prof. Maryanne Dever / Dr Rachel Fensham PhD 2007
Jacalene Harding Affectivity, Ethics and the Everyday Dr Kate Rigby / Dr Ian Buchanan PhD 2007
Tanya Caulfield Troublesome creatures: The dowry violence phenomenon Dr Helen Johnson MA 2000
Kyllie Cripps Enough family fighting: Indigenous community responses to addressing family violence in Australia and the United States Dr Liz Reed PhD 2004
Liz Day Delusions of gender: Reading the subject through Virginia Woolf's intersubjective aesthetic in 'Orlando: A biography' Dr Maryanne Dever / Dr JaneMaree Maher PhD 2002
Joanna Di Mattia The hard body goes soft: Anxious men and masculinity in the films of the Clinton era Dr JaneMaree Maher PhD 2002
Fleur Diamond Rewriting the romance: Gender, sexuality and narrative in contemporary lesbian poetics Dr Heather Scutter PhD 2000
Elaine Duffy Contested bodies: The locations / dislocations of Indigenous women in contemporary health Dr Helen Johnson PhD 2001
Vanessa Eckhaus Complicated pleasures: Pornography created for a female audience Dr Denise Cuthbert / Dr JaneMaree Maher MA 2002
Caroline Elston In search of the maternal subject: Klein, feminism and women's popular magazine narratives Assoc. Prof. Denise Cuthbert PhD 2004
Anne Elvey Gestations of the sacred: Ecological feminist readings from the Gospel of Luke Dr Kate Rigby PhD 1999
Ilsa Evans Battle-scars: Long-term effects of prior domestic violence Maryanne Dever / Dr Jo Lindsay PhD 2005
Rececca Forgasz Beyond 'malestream' Judaism: Representing women in Jewish museums Dr Vicky Peel MA 2002
Zakiah Hasan Gaffar A qualitative study of decision-making processes among Indonesian women undertaking domestic work in Malaysia Assoc. Prof. Denise Cuthbert / Dr Sharon Pickering MA 2005
Valerie Hazel Memory: An absent witness Dr Claire Colebrook PhD 2000
Millsom Henry Moving beyond otherness: (Re)veiling, (re)centring and (re)inscribing the polyvocal subjectivities of African Caribbean women across the United Kingdom Dr Denise Cuthbert PhD 2002
Lesley Instone Lines across the land Assoc. Prof. Kathy Gibson / Dr Robyn Eckersley PhD 2002
Deanne Jackel Wicked witches and violent victims: Representations in the criminal justice system and in the media of women who kill Dr Maryanne Dever MA 2001
Grace Lim Gender and culture in Jane Austen's novels: From a feminist perspective Dr Maryanne Dever / Dr Ann Vickery MA 2006
Patricia MacCormack Pleasure, perversion and death: Three lines of flight for the viewing body Dr Maryanne Dever PhD 2000
Jennifer Mitchell Fictions of becoming: Creativity and the post-domestic in the fiction of Drusilla Modjeska, Marion Halligan, Amanda Lohrey and Stephanie Dowrick Dr JaneMaree Maher / Assoc. Prof. Maryanne Dever PhD 2007
My Dung Nguyen Gambling: Issues and needs of Vietnamese women in Victoria Dr Denise Cuthbert MA 2003
Endang Soesilowati Indonesian women's career development: A qualitative case study of women employees in the manufacturing industry Assoc. Prof. Denise Cuthbert / Dr Wendy Smith PhD 2005
Ceridwen Spark Still around again: Rethinking emplacement, displacement and Aboriginality Dr Rachel Fensham PhD 2001
Karen Sutherland Just being a girl: Female child sexual abuse and the problem(s) of embodiment Assoc. Prof. Chris Goddard / Dr Helen Johnson PhD 2002
Anna Szorenyi Collected suffering: Refugees on display in contemporary media Assoc. Prof. Denise Cuthbert PhD 2004
Akiko Tanaka The psychoanalytic family romance of femininity Dr Esther Faye MA 2000
Kim Toffoletti Transformations: Feminism and the posthuman Dr Jane-Maree Maher / Dr Anne Marsh PhD 2003

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