Dr JaneMaree Maher
- Tel: +61 3 990 52949
- Fax: +61 3 990 52410
- Email: JaneMaree.Maher@arts.monash.edu.au
- Room W11.17 11th Floor
- Building 11 (Menzies) Clayton Campus
JaneMaree Maher is Director of the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research in the School of Political and Social Inquiry.
Research
JaneMaree's research interests are focused on work/family balance, women's mothering and employment, and pregnancy and birth.
With Dr Jo Lindsay, (Sociology, School of Political and Social Inquiry) JaneMaree is working on new models of family, changing gender relations and the use of time within families. This project emerged from the Families, fertility and the future study reported in What Women (and Men) Want.
With Dr Jo Lindsay and Assoc Prof Anne Bardoel (ACREW, Faculty of Business and Economics), JaneMaree is currently researching work and family balance amongst builders and nurses. This project is jointly funded by the School of Political and Social Inquiry and ACREW.
With Professor Wendy Chavkin from Columbia University, JaneMaree is developing a project focused on transnational reproduction and carework through the Globalization of Motherhood Research Network. The initial Globalization of Motherhood Symposium took place in London in October and an edited volume Globalized Motherhood: The transformation and fragmentation of mothering will be coming out with Routledge in 2010.
A full list of JaneMaree's publications can be found here.
Postgraduate Supervision
"This is a significant and enriching part of my work in the Centre for Women's Studies. I supervise across a range of areas including popular culture and gender issues in law. Recently I have successfully supervised theses on the return to domesticity (Jennifer Mitchell receiving her doctorate in 2007), posthuman bodies (Dr Kim Toffoletti, 2004) and American presidential masculinities (Dr Joanna di Mattia, 2005).
Currently I am supervising students focusing on celebrity and autobiography, the new pregnancy and reproduction and biopower in the clinic.
I am keenly interested in rethinking definitions of the body in pregnancy and birth; and investigating mothering and employment. I would be happy to work with prospective applicants to develop research topics."
In 2001, JaneMaree won the Award for Excellence in Higher Degree Research Supervision,awarded by the Faculty of Arts at Monash University .
A full list of JaneMaree's supervisions can be found here.
Teaching
JaneMaree teaches:
- GND2050 / 3050 Sex, science & the body
- CRI2140 / 3140 Sex & crime
- GND4010 Gender, Sexuality, Power
- GND2030 / 3030 Gender, media and consumption
- GND2070 / 3070 Rethinking Global Culture: Sex, Race, Consumption
Current teaching initiatives include an online link up with students studying gender and culture at the National University of Singapore and a project on student study/life balance.
Professional Profile
JaneMaree has degrees in Law and Arts (Hons) (University of Melbourne 1991) and gained her PhD in 1999 (La Trobe University). JaneMaree has worked at the Centre for Women's Studies since 2000 and was Chair of the Faculty of Arts Equity and Diversity Committee from 2005 -2008. She has recently been appointed to the Advertising Standards Board of Australia; the Board makes decisions about community complaints about advertisements.