Naked in the Gymnasium: Women as Agents of Social Change

Maja Mikula; Institute for International Studies, University of Technology Sydney

gender; feminism; women

Women have throughout history participated in and sometimes initiated rebellions to defend the welfare of their family, community, class and race or ethnic group. It appears that generations of women in a wide range of political and social movements, individual women resisting social injustice and at least three waves of conscious feminism(s) have not yet succeeded in defeating the popular stigma surrounding female activism. Women moving in the public arena still evoke the same ...

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2004-01-22

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Memoria y retorno del exilio republicano catalán (Memory and Return of the Catalan Republican Exile)

Roser Pujadas Comas d'Argemir; Universitat Rovira I Virgili (Tarragona) y Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona

exile; returned exiles; Catalan literature; historical memory; autobiographies; identity; nationalism

The end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 meant that many republicans went into exile fleeing Francoism. In the case of intellectuals and writers from Catalunia, exile constituted the only means of ensuring the continuity of their culture, given the cultural and linguistic repression by the dictatorship. Much later than they had expected, some were able to return but, after so many years, return meant yet another rupture; it meant returning to a country no longer the one so often ...

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2004-01-22

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Michel Houellebecq and the International Sexual Economy

Douglas Morrey; University of Newcastle, United Kingdom

Houellebecq; Globalization; Sex tourism; Libidinal economy; Anti-psychologism; Narrative irony

This paper explores the notion of an ‘international sexual economy’ in the work of the French writer Michel Houellebecq, and particularly his latest novel, Plateforme (2001). Houellebecq suggests that, since westerners no longer have the time or the inclination to sleep with each other, and since those in the third world have nothing to sell but their bodies, the exchange of cash for sex on a truly international scale is likely to represent the most lucrative sector of the global ...

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2004-01-22

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Capitalizing Asian Studies: Critical Scholarship and the Production of Knowledge in a Globalizing World

Tim Oakes; University of Colorado, Boulder, U.S.A.

This paper explores the implications of the related trends of economic globalization and the corporatization of higher education in the United States for Asian area studies scholarship. It argues that the scales at which geographical knowledge is produced are increasingly in flux due to the shift in global political economy. Area studies scholarship is subsequently left scrambling to both understand this shift and make its knowledge production somehow relevant and valuable in ...

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Institute for International Studies, University of Technology Sydney

2004-01-22

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Grassroots Women

Rebecca Kay; Department of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow

post-Soviet Russia; economic reform; women

The economic, social and political changes that have occurred in Russia over the last 10 years have had a profound effect on Russian women’s lives. Economic reform has brought poverty, insecurity and high levels of anxiety and stress to much of the population, both male and female. The impact of these changes on women was amplified in the early 1990s by their structural positioning both within the workforce and within the population, brought about by the legacies of the Soviet ...

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2004-01-22

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Entanglement and the Modern Australian Rhythm Method: Lantana’s Lessons in Policing Sexuality and Gender

Kirsty Duncanson; University of Melbourne ; Catriona Elder; University of Sydney ; Murray Pratt; Institute for International Studies, University of Technology Sydney

Lantana; Australian cinema; national identity; Jennifer Rutherford; good neighbour

Film in Australia, as with many other nations, is often seen as an important cultural medium where national stories about belonging and identity can be (re)produced in pleasurable and, at times, complicated ways. One such film is Ray Lawrence’s Lantana. Although striking a chord in Australia as a good film about ‘ basically good people’, people that rang ‘brilliantly’ true (Lantana DVD 2002), this paper argues that, at the same time as it produces a fantasy of a ‘good’ Australia, ...

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2004-01-22

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Flora y fauna crónica

Susana Chávez-Silverman; Pomona College, California, U.S.A.

Latino/a studies; chronicle; cr

“Flora & Fauna Crónica” is from the book, Killer Crónicas, which will be published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2004. This collection of chronicles began in 2000, after Susana was awarded a fellowship by the US National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for a project on contemporary Argentine women's poetry. She spent thirteen months in Buenos Aires where, in addition to research and writing on her official (academic) book, she began to send bilingual, punning “letters ...

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2004-01-22

Cultural Work

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The Militant Nun as Political Activist and Feminist in Martial Law Philippines

Mina Roces; University of New South Wales

Feminism; women

During the martial law era (1972-1986), the militant nuns were the most visible symbols of political activism: they dominated the Task Force Detainees, they were active in the underground press, and were present in the labour strikes and demonstrations. But, in becoming political activists, they discovered the potential of moral power as women religious figures. During the People Power revolution, for example, the nuns – armed only with rosaries, confronted the military (the supreme ...

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2004-01-22

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Germany: Myth and Apologia in Christa Wolf’s Novel Medea. Voices

Yixu Lü; Institute for International Studies, University of Technology Sydney

Medea; contemporary German fiction; contemporary German history; Christa Wolf

In 1995, Christa Wolf, the most eminent author of the former German Democratic Republic, published the novel Medea. Voices. It takes up themes which have been worked and re-worked in European literature since Euripides’ tragedy, and which go back into pre-literary myth. Medea has many guises: she can be seen as the monstrous mother; as the victim of Jason’s fickle nature; or as the perpetual ‘stranger’, the woman who has given up all her origins, only to be disowned. Christa Wolf’s ...

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2004-01-22

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Typicals/Típicos

Silvia Vélez; free lance artist

Colombia; photography

Typicals is a series of 12 colour photographs digitally created from photojournalistic images from Colombia combined with "typical" craft textiles and text from guest writers. Typicals was first exhibited as photographs 50cm x 75cm in size, each with their own magnifying glass, at the Contemporary Art Space at Gorman House in Canberra, Australia, in 2000. It was then exhibited in "Feedback: Art Social Consciousness and Resistance" at Monash University Museum of Art in Melbourne, ...

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2004-01-22

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