Women's Studies
Thesis Topics & Supervisors
The following is a list of politics postgraduates and their thesis topics. If you are a postgraduate student in Women's Studies and would like to have your name added or removed from this list, or if you would like to have your email or and abstract listed as well, you can do so simply by contacting our Postgraduate Coordinator Sue Stevenson.
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PhD |
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Student |
Topic |
Supervisor/s |
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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 |
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Zakiah Hasan Gaffar |
"Life in between: The post-migration narratives of Indonesian returning domestic workers" |
Assoc. Prof. Maryanne Dever/Dr Brett Hough |
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Farhana Hashem |
"Sustainable health care services in rural Australia: A study of mother and child health" |
Dr JaneMaree Maher/Assoc. Prof. Maryanne Deve |
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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 |
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Vicky Nagy |
"Female poisoners of the 1840s-1850s in rural England" |
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Aquarini Prabasmoro |
"Staging a life: The spectacle of celebrity auto/biography" |
Dr JaneMaree Maher/Assoc. Prof. Maryanne Dever |
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Karolyne Quinn |
"Re-membering the body in talk-therapy" |
Dr JaneMaree Maher/Dr Suzanne Fraser |
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Claire Tanner |
"A cultural history of Victorian women's suffrage: Modernity, political processes, consumption/performance" |
Prof. Marian Quartly/Assoc. Prof. Maryanne Dever |
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Shermal Wijewardene |
English Literature and Theatre Production in Sri Lanka and India |
Dr Steven Angelides/Dr JaneMaree Maher |
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Master of Arts (100% Research) |
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Student |
Topic |
Supervisor/s |
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Ann Brown |
"A briefcase or a baby: The politics of reproduction" |
Dr JaneMaree Maher/Assoc. Prof. Mayanne Dever |
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Kat Cain |
"Gendered visions of technology: Analysis of imagery representing women and technology" (under examination) |
Dr JaneMaree Maher/Dr Rose Lucas |
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Master of Arts 66% Research ) |
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Student |
Topic |
Supervisor/s |
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Neeti Aryal Khanal |
TBA |
Dr JaneMaree Maher/Dr Suzanne Fraser |
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Kylie Moppert |
"Women entrepreneurs' experience of negotiating in their working lives" (under examination) |
Assoc. Prof. Mayanne Dever/Dr JaneMaree Maher |
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Completed |
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Student |
Topic |
Supervisor/s |
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Tanya Caulfield (MA) 2000 |
"Troublesome creatures: The dowry violence phenomenon" |
Dr Helen Johnson |
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Kyllie Cripps (PhD) 2004 |
"Enough family fighting: Indigenous community responses to addressing family violence in Australia and the United States" |
Dr Liz Reed |
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Liz Day (PhD) 2002 |
"Delusions of gender: Reading the subject through Virginia Woolf’s intersubjective aesthetic in ‘Orlando: A biography’" |
Dr Maryanne Dever/Dr Jane-Maree Maher |
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Joanne Di Mattia (PhD) 2004 |
"The hard body goes soft: Anxious men and masculinity in the films of the Clinton era" |
Dr JaneMaree Maher |
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Fleur Diamond (PhD) 2000 |
"Rewriting the romance: Gender, sexuality and narrative in contemporary lesbian poetics" |
Dr Heather Scutter |
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Elaine Duffy (PhD) 2001 |
"Contested bodies: The locations/dislocations of Indigenous women in contemporary health" |
Dr Helen Johnson |
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Vanessa Eckhaus (MA) 2002 |
"Complicated pleasures: Pornography created for a female audience" |
Dr Denise Cuthbert/Dr Jane-Maree Maher |
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Caroline Elston (PhD) 2004 |
"In search of the maternal subject: Klein, feminism and women’s popular magazine narratives" |
Assoc. Prof. Denise Cuthbert |
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Anne Elvey (PhD) 1999 |
"Gestations of the sacred: Ecological feminist readings from the Gospel of Luke" |
Dr Kate Rigby |
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Ilsa Evans (PhD) 2005 |
"Battle-scars: Long-term effects of prior domestic violence" |
Dr Maryanne Dever/Dr Jo Lindsay |
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Rececca Forgasz (MA) 2002 |
"Beyond ‘malestream’ Judaism: Representing women in Jewish museums" |
Dr Vicky Peel |
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Jacalene Harding (PhD) 2007 |
"Deleuze and the everyday" |
Dr Kate Rigby/Dr Ian Buchanan |
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Zakiah Hasan Gaffar (MA) 2005 |
"A qualitative study of decision-making processes among Indonesian women undertaking domestic work in Malaysia" |
Assoc. Prof. Denise Cuthbert/Dr Sharon Pickering |
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Valerie Hazel (PhD) 2000 |
"Memory: An absent witness" |
Dr Claire Colebrook |
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Millsom Henry (PhD) 2002 |
"Moving beyond otherness: (Re)veiling, (re)centring and (re)inscribing the polyvocal subjectivities of African Caribbean women across the United Kingdom" |
Dr Denise Cuthbert |
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Lesley Instone (PhD) 2002 |
"Lines across the land" |
Assoc. Prof. Kathy Gibson/Dr Robyn Eckersley |
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Deanne Jackel (MA) 2001 |
"Wicked witches and violent victims: Representations in the criminal justice system and in the media of women who kill" |
Dr Maryanne Dever |
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Grace Lim (MA) 2006 |
"Gender and culture in Jane Austen’s novels: From a feminist perspective" |
Dr Maryanne Dever/Dr JaneMaree Maher |
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Patricia MacCormack (PhD) 2000 |
"Pleasure, perversion and death: Three lines of flight for the viewing body" |
Dr Rachel Fensham |
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Myfanwy McDonald (PhD) 2007 |
"Dealing with disruption: Talking gender in the contemporary Australian clinical context" |
Assoc. Prof. Maryanne Dever/Dr Rachel Fensham |
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Jennifer Mitchell (PhD) 2007 |
"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 |
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My Dung Nguyen (MA) 2003 |
"Gambling: Issues and needs of Vietnamese women in Victoria" |
Dr Denise Cuthbert |
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Endang Soesilowati (PhD) 2005 |
"Indonesian women’s career development: A qualitative case study of women employees in the manufacturing industry" |
Assoc. Prof. Denise Cuthbert/Dr Wendy Smith |
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Ceridwen Spark (PhD) 2001 |
"Still around again: Rethinking emplacement, displacement and Aboriginality" |
Dr Rachel Fensham |
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Karen Sutherland (PhD) 2002 |
"Just being a girl: Female child sexual abuse and the problem(s) of embodiment" |
Assoc. Prof. Chris Goddard/Dr Helen Johnson |
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Anna Szorenyi (PhD) 2004 |
"Collected suffering: Refugees on display in contemporary media" |
Assoc. Prof. Denise Cuthbert |
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Akiko Tanaka (MA) 2000 |
"The psychoanalytic family romance of femininity" |
Dr Esther Faye |
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Kim Toffoletti (PhD) 2003 |
"Transformations: Feminism and the posthuman" |
Dr Jane-Maree Maher/Dr Anne Marsh |