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GI Convenor's end-of-year message
In the year when ‘because, 2020’ became a form of explanation for every new order of woes, we are all no doubt more relieved than usual to be counting down to year’s end!
Echoes and Silences: #MeToo’s Reverberations
This special section of Australian Feminist Studies is dedicated to examining the echoes and reverberations of #MeToo beyond its viral epicentre in American celebrity media culture.
The Use of Victim Impact Statements in Sentencing for Sexual Offences: Stories of Strength
Drawing on extensive research from Australia, this book examines the experiences of sexual offence victims who submit a victim impact statement.
The passions of the broken-hearted: Patrick White and spousal homicide
Patrick White's Happy Valley centres on a spousal homicide which, for the young author, stood in for the desperate and doomed search for happiness in small town life. His novel provides insight into an unhappy marriage that ended in murder in real-...
The Gendered Body During Covid-19
This special issue will consider the impact of Covid-19 on gendered bodily practices.
2020 prizes for excellence in gender and sexuality research
Prizes are awarded annually to ANU students under the following categories:
- Undergraduate Honours Thesis $500
- Masters Thesis $500
- PhD Thesis $1000
- Journal article by an ANU graduate student $500
*This call closes...
Dialogue: New Critical Actors: Gender-Focused Parliamentary Bodies
Around the world, specialised parliamentary bodies have been created to promote the substantive representation of women. Too often they are overlooked, because they don’t fit easily into existing frameworks for comparing women’s policy agencies.
The Green Revolution: Narratives of Politics, Technology and Gender
Interlinking themes of development policy, gender, and agricultural research, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of agricultural development, food security, and sustainable development, as well as policymakers and...
It’s a man’s world at the top: gendered media representations of Julia Gillard and Helen Clark
This article compares how the print media portrayed Gillard and Clark in the first three weeks of their respective prime ministerial terms to understand why, despite both being leaders from centre-left Labor/Labour parties, there was such a...
Gender, politics and development in the Pacific
This special section draws together papers that explore the nexus between gender, politics and development in the small states of the Pacific.