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The papers of radical feminist writer Monique Wittig (1935–2003) are now available for researchers to consult in Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. This article provides an account of the provenance of the collection, its holdings and its passage to the Beinecke. In particular, it explores what has and has not survived and highlights the timeliness of the opening of Wittig’s papers in terms of current speculation around the history and archiving of feminism as a movement. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In 2011, something surprising happened in terms of Australian feminist cultural memory: a celebratory feminism arrived in the shape of the hugely popular ABC television mini-series, Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo. Eschewing dour social realism for a stylish and ludic narrative, Paper Giants uses the story of the women's magazine Cleo to tell the story of Australian women's liberation. This essay analyses the components of the mini-series' celebratory feminist aesthetics, examining the ways in which it mobilises feminist tropes to speak an intelligible feminist language in postfeminist times. Further, I detail how women's liberation becomes central to the national historical narrative underpinning the programme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Women's Commission held in Sydney in March 1973, was organised by Women's Liberation as a 'speak out', allowing the theories and practices of the new wave women's movement to be shared and contested. This paper investigates tensions around lesbianism and feminism by considering both archival evidence from 1973 of the Commission's 'Women as Sex Objects' session and oral histories undertaken in 2003 with five participants, each at some stage identifying as lesbian. Both archives and the later reflective interviews have been revisited recently in the light of feminist and queer theory. The paper identifies three themes in Commission tensions: emotions, including entangled relationships, as motivations; changing views on gender fluidity; and marginalisation. Both archive and oral history are needed to allow a deeper understanding of each theme, all three of which continue to shape the women's movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A strong civil society is fundamental to the wellbeing and resilience of communities. Young people play powerful in civil society activism, but their contribution is yet to be fully grasped and appreciated. As the 10-year anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 2250 on Youth, Peace, and Security approaches in 2025, more action is needed to genuinely include, prioritise and champion the role and perspectives of young people. Succession planning is an important aspect of youth civil society activism. Whilst much has been written about the topic in the public and private sectors, very little exists in the context of civil society organisations, and in particular, in youth civil society organisations. Drawing on lived experience of voluntarily coordinating a youth feminist organisation in Australia, I argue there are six added complexities that youth civil society organisations face. As part of feminist ethic of practice, the purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of 'representational irony' and in doing so, share learnings, reflections, and practical recommendations to assist others. Whilst the paper focuses on youth civil society activism, learnings apply more broadly to stewardship and succession planning in organisations that seek to include and champion young people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the authors' efforts to secure the personal papers of feminist activist Merle Thornton for archival use at the National Library of Australia (NLA). Particular focus is given to Thornton's role in Australia's second-wave feminist movement. Details on the scope of the collection, which includes an oral history interview with Thornton and materials related to a 1965 protest at the Regatta Hotel in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and the Equal Opportunities for Women Association (EOW), are presented. Other topics include workplace discrimination and Thornton's corpus of fictional works.

This conference report serves as a summary for the International Women's and Gender Studies Conference which took place in Brisbane Australia, 12-16 July 2003. The conference sponsored a series of papers about post 9/11 feminist challenges as well as those that address how to end the silencing of women. Speakers at the conference were not limited to those within academia, and there was a focus on the history of women's liberation and feminism in Australia.

In a synopsis sent to her publisher outlining her plans for a ‘sensational’ book, Germaine Greer wrote: If Eldridge Cleaver can write a book about the frozen soul of the negro, as part of the progress towards a correct statement of the coloured man’s problem, a woman must eventually take steps towards delineating the female condition as she finds it scored upon her sensibility. I know myself to be an anomaly, a lucky survival, but men, so is Cleaver: if he is a genius, a criminal, a delinquent only such a person who escapes from the glass mountain can describe it and pass the message on … . The recent opening of the Greer archive at the University of Melbourne offers researchers new understanding of the transAtlantic orientation ofThe Female Eunuchand the inspirations and models provided by a range of contemporary radical male American writers, notably Eldridge Cleaver, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and Norman Mailer. Greer’s papers contain pitches to the publisher, numerous drafts and revisions of her book proposal, summaries of the book’s contents, clues to its anticipated readers and towards the end of the process, a ‘dedication’. Drafts are partly handwritten, partly typed and combinations of these, amended and revised, all evolving, illuminating Greer’s chosen genre, discursive frames of reference and themotifof castration. The papers provide insight intoThe Female Eunuch’s defining analogy between the condition of woman and that of the ‘American Negro’ and illuminate media strategies that ensured the book became an iconic feminist text. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For more than 30 years, I have been researching contemporary women's classical music and have concluded that in the current time, it is difficult to believe in the utopian world for women in music that had once been imagined in the decade of the 1990s. According to Roffe, however, in Deleuzian thought utopia is not really about hope or an ideal society, but about who we are, and what we are capable of, here and now. In this paper, through a dialogue with the divided self, or what Deleuze refers to as the ‘dividual’, I will generate some thoughts about the kinds of actions that a dividual is able to produce at different stages of her work as a musician and an activist feminist. Specifically, the paper will aim to develop a new conception of subjectivity in order to sow the seeds for new ways of thinking about women in music. It will ask two questions: who acts, and who is the subject of that action?; and, how do new ways of thinking transform real world situations? The first question leads to the theme in Deleuze and Guattari's work of ‘a people to come’ or ‘becoming-woman’, the latter a concept that disrupts the male form of subjectivity, challenging the emphasis on ‘man’ as the standard by which all beings and things are measured. The paper will map the question leads to a demonstration of how the self, conceived as a dividual, is able to make an intervention into the nature of subjectivity while at the same time gesturing towards the ways in which the practices of musicology and feminist studies might be transformed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper looks at the establishment of Women's Studies programs in selected Australian universities. It highlights the resistance to Women's Studies as an academic knowledge by some feminists outside of the academy as well as non-feminists within the academy. This paper argues that connections to the Women's Liberation Movement and the difficulties encountered by feminists when introducing Women's Studies into the academy made some feminists suspicious of the value of theory for feminism, especially in relation to a political agenda. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. (Austen, Persuasion ([1818] 1946) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The conference report presents information about the Feminist Legal Academics Workshops, which were held at Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide on June 19-21, 2003. A diverse group of academics, practitioners, activists, students and writers from Australia and abroad were present to discuss the state of feminism and law. The conferences theme was 'Legal Feminism-Now and Then?' and its priority was to reflect on the 1990s as a decade of feminist legal scholarship.

Laws and regulatory guidelines dealing with assisted reproductive technology in Australia and elsewhere typically operate on the principle that the physical and psychological well-being of the person who might be created using the technology must be an active consideration. An ethical/legal problem arises when future persons are protected at the expense of existing persons. This occurs when women, who create and gestate these future persons, are socially, legally and medically positioned as transgenerational vectors of harm, and are subject to pressure to act for the benefit of people who do not yet and may never come to exist. This paper explores the way women are understood, in science and law, as subject to situational and environmental harms as well as constituting a (prenatal) environment for the perpetuation of those harms. Finally, recognising that harm is itself actively gendered, this paper also explores how gendered assumptions are smuggled into legal explanations of disease and its causes and how this might impact regulatory responses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues that the power of evolutionary psychology (EP) and the challenge it poses for feminists reside less in any new scientific knowledge EP has produced, and more in the meta-narrative it has provided for scientists whose work is not directly concerned with evolution. Using the study of sex/gender differences in language as a case study, the paper shows how EP's meta-narrative has been taken up in both expert and popular scientific discourse. It considers what gives the meta-narrative its appeal, and how feminists have contested it. It also locates the argument within the longer history of feminist responses to evolutionary science, comparing current debates with those that took place in the late nineteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

RD Laing's phenomenological approach to madness influenced early second wave feminism, since it buttressed the feminist critique of the nuclear family and exposed the abuses of institutional psychiatry in policing gender roles. However, feminist perceptions of Laing's 'gender blindness', as exemplified by Elaine Showalter's The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, and the feminist turn towards Freudian/Lacanian psychoanalysis, soon moderated enthusiasm for Laing. In the 1970s, Laing became increasingly incensed about the medicalisation of childbirth, writing an unpublished manuscript, The Politics of Birth, and promoting the practice of therapeutic 're-birthing'. The latter practice is relentlessly satirised in Emma Tennant's speculative novel The Crack (1978). Drawing on Laing's unpublished papers, I show that even as feminists were disavowing, critiquing and satirising Laing, he was embracing feminist ideas. I argue that Laing's emergent feminist sympathies underpin his critique of contemporaneous birthing practices and that there is a common thread linking his critique of psychiatric and obstetric abuses as being premised on a denial of the value of 'unscripted' human experience. This article thus argues for a more nuanced understanding of feminism's own intellectual history and a reappraisal of Laing vis-a-vis feminism, which would contribute to the broader re-evaluation of Laing's work currently underway. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social movement theorists have developed several concepts to explain the role of social networking in maintaining social movements. This is particularly relevant for periods when levels of public activism are low due to backlash, hostile social contexts and structural uncertainties. As part of my study of the women's movement online and feminist blog networks in Australia, I provide a review of several of these concepts, interrogating their applicability to the study of online communities. This paper explores the relevance of the social movement theory concepts of submerged networks, abeyance structures and the related idea of counterpublics for the study of feminist blog networks. In 2009, the radio station Triple J's ‘Hottest 100 of All Time’ poll featured no solo women artists, and women played on few tracks. In response to this, several strands of discourse developed in the Australian feminist blogosphere identifying ways that the history of rock music excludes or erases women. Activists developed a cross-platform poll on Twitter, Facebook and email, and promoted it through blogs and Twitter, to counter the ‘Hottest 100 Men’ with a ‘Hottest 100 Women’. This paper shows the ways these women have used blogging networks to challenge mainstream discourses and generate new ones. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article discusses the need to re-imagine multiculturalism and feminism in order to better accommodate women in minority cultures who are religious. It begins and ends with comments about multiculturalism and ‘difference feminism’ in Australia. In the body of the paper I use anthropological field-work in Indonesia, first to show that culture and religion are not separate and immutable, and secondly to show how Muslim women in the women's movement in Indonesia are using Islam to build a multicultural discourse. Finally I apply my findings about Muslim women activists in multicultural discourse in Indonesia to multiculturalism in Australia. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article focuses on how the Sydney Women's Liberation were documented. The author stated that their initial subsidiary project would be to produce a book that collects all the documents of the Movement, and secondly, to have a series of oral history tapes. She then explored the chronology of the Movement and its limitations, and discussed the importance of these chronologies.

Interviews Moira Gates about feminism twenty years since the publication of "A Critique of the Sex/Gender Distinction." The interview details Gates's original intention for publishing the paper, her criticism of the distinction between sex and gender, and the development of views on sex and gender.

This paper reflects on Iris van der Tuin's reading of the connections between microagressions and contemporary feminist theory. In particular, I address van der Tuin's discussion of echolocation and mirror-touch synaesthesia as empirical instances of the material, ontological complexity of individuation. For van der Tuin, recent findings in the science of perception rework our understanding of microagressions beyond its routinely atomistic logic and the subject/object divide that underpins it. Importantly, echolocation's and mirror-touch synaesthesia's confounding of the interplay between biology and environment also offers interesting insights into the epistemological and methodological question of how to 'measure' or know an imperceptive sort of experience like microagressions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we explore how confidence has become a technology of self that invites girls and women to work on themselves. The discussion demonstrates the extensiveness of what we call the ‘cult(ure) of confidence’ across different areas of social life, and examines the continuities in the way that exponents of the confidence cult(ure) name, diagnose and propose solutions to archetypal feminist questions about labour, value and the body. Our analysis focuses on two broad areas of social life in which the notion of confidence has taken hold powerfully in the last few years: popular discussions about gender and work, and consumer body culture. Examining the incitements to self-confidence in these realms, we show how an emergent technology of confidence, systematically re-signifies feminist accounts, by turning away from structural inequalities and collectivist critiques of male domination into heightened modes of self-work and self-regulation, and by repudiating the injuries inflicted by the structures of inequality. We conclude by situating the ‘confidence cult(ure)’ in relation to wider debates about feminism, postfeminism and neoliberalism. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The history of the Women's Electoral Lobby (WEL) is distinguished by its extensive involvement in electoral politics and public policy. This paper traces WEL's development as part of the broader women's movement, considers its engagement with government and situates it in relation to Australian and international political traditions. It describes WEL's distinctive style of political engagement, through its candidate surveys for the 1972 federal election to the online party scorecards of the 2000s, and the more than 900 policy submissions along the way. Personal connections via the ‘femocrats’ and feminist members of parliament strengthened WEL's policy influence and helped it realise (at least for a time) the goal of a feminist policy machinery across the whole of government at both commonwealth and state/territory levels. WEL has also been part of a broader women's movement, generating tensions as well as inspiration and support. With characteristic pragmatism, WEL members made sense of their place in the movement by working for the ‘preconditions of revolution’ from the reformist end of a ‘continuum of radicalism’. They were aiming to broaden the impact of feminism by making gender equality part of the core business of government. This is a project that was undermined by major changes in political conditions, but which WEL continues to pursue through its particular focus on policy analysis and advocacy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper explores the connections of feminist scholarship in the social sciences with political struggles and institutions. The creation of bases for a feminist knowledge project is outlined and its uses in challenging sexist culture and in developing agendas of reform are explored. The impact of neoliberalism and the significance of Australia's location in the global periphery for the shape of the public realm and the character of feminist research are discussed. The resource represented by feminist scholarship across the global South for understanding contemporary forms of patriarchy is emphasised. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper explores some of the theoretical and practice issues in relation to feminist oral history. The central theoretical premise is that transcripts from interviews are to be understood as constructed texts rather than as windows into the past. It draws on the author's conduct of a research project that documented the history of the Victorian domestic violence services movement from 1974 to 2005. The author's position is analysed in relation to the production of historical evidence—which was done by conducting oral interviews and producing transcripts—and in writing feminist history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the past decade, a dominant figure in Australian sociocultural constructions has been that of ‘the bogan’, which, although capricious, has typically been deployed as a negative descriptor of the white working-class poor. In this paper, we examine media representations of this ubiquitous figure from 2009 to 2012 through a gender lens. In the texts, ‘the bogan’ is implicitly and explicitly rendered masculine, with the feminised archetype, the ‘female bogan’ (or ‘boganette’) as supplement or ‘other’. Drawing on feminist cultural theory of class, we examine depictions of the female bogan that invoke her identity-as-mother as a source of scorn while affording considerable attention that disparages her embodied self. Following this, we explore how the chosen media texts position the bogan and the female bogan in relation to feminism and the sexualisation of culture. Collectively, these texts demonstrate both shifts and continuities in what are powerfully fused gender and class discourses of the female working class. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article is an examination of Ruby Rich (1888–1988), an Australian feminist, concert pianist, Zionist, pacifist and eugenicist. Although much lauded by her peers, Rich has gone largely unexamined by historians, particularly in contrast to the recent research on her feminist contemporaries Mary Montgomerie Bennett and Bessie Rischbieth. I draw attention to Rich's remarkable life and varied experiences, and use her example to explore the relationship between feminism and eugenics in twentieth-century Australia. From the early 1920s, Rich became a prominent figure within several Australian feminist organisations and in 1926 was appointed the founding president of the Racial Hygiene Association of NSW, an organisation which espoused eugenics. Although it is often assumed that eugenics is innately anti-feminist, Rich remained an active champion of both feminism and racial hygiene for over 50 years. Her example therefore provides an opportunity to trace the unlikely sympathies between these two movements, and highlights the extent to which eugenics found acceptance among progressive members of the Australian community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates the circumstances that made a radical piece of the legislation Summary Offences Act possible in New South Wales. The authors argue that the legislation can in some senses be considered as one of the major feminist triumphs, a testimony to the skills of feminists in devising strategic alliances across gender, class and party lines. In tracing the emergence of feminist approaches to prostitution in the 1970s, they intend to spot on how transnational ideas were changed.

The article aims to develop the insight of normalization by showing how it might move feminist discussions. The paper assumes that cosmetic surgery represents an attempt by the individual primarily to conform more closely to the cultural standard of beauty. Meanwhile, the author argues that beauty and identity are already part of the same double and contradictory process called normalization.

The article offers a historical analysis of female trade union organizers and of the strategic networks nurtured by female organizers and industry officials. The author takes into account the nature of collectives and mobilization. They tried to establish links between the labor historiography of women, recent perspectives in industrial geography, and theories of collective structures, and relationships.

This article introduces a series of articles on the association of feminism, religion and citizenship in Australia. Feminist academic historians' attitude toward the religious elements of Australian women's past; Challenges in incorporating religion to feminist history.

When the feminist preacher Maude Royden (1876–1956) toured Australia in 1928, she promoted modern religion for modern women. This article examines the Australian press coverage of Royden’s visit to shed light on the complex relationships between religion, modernity and the female body as they were constituted in Australia in the 1920s. In doing so, this article contributes to growing historiographic debate concerning the intersections of modernity and religion and serves to disrupt further those narratives which have presumed processes of modernisation and secularisation to be running in parallel. Australian newspapers eagerly spread the news of Royden assuming the previously masculine space of the pulpit and they promoted her new form of Christianity as scientifically credible and suited to modern Australia women’s lives. In advancing my analysis, I also compare Royden’s press reception in Australia to that of her contemporary, Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944). McPherson likewise also offered a religious response to modernity and a new religious femininity, but the Australian media showed comparatively little interest in her visit. I argue that although religious femininities were being recrafted for modernity in the pages of Australian newspapers, only certain expressions of religiosity and modern femininity were considered compatible. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article focuses on women issues raised during the Sixth Newcastle Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Conference in the University of Newcastle, New South Wales. Review on the evolution of feminist theory; Role of women in the labor market; Influence of media on feminism; Views of theorists on feminism as a category of analysis.

This article argues that reading groups are a collective field building and research method in Feminist Environmental Humanities, an interdisciplinary scholarly area at the intersections of feminist social justice and environmental concerns. We begin by historicising three Australian Feminist Environmental reading groups (COMPOSTING Feminisms, Eco Feminist Fridays, The Ediths) within a longer feminist tradition, then demonstrate how they respond to declining research funding in the neoliberal university and accelerating ecological crisis. Drawing on survey data, we first thematically code and analyse the results to categorise the groups' functions and impacts. Departing from more traditional data analysis, we then develop a method of interpretation called 'transversal poetics'. Via a captioned photo essay, we unpack how transversal poetics yields new ways of reading the data. We show how this practice-led, creative method reveals additional themes and crystallises the reading groups' key ethos: building situated communities of care across difference. Overall, the research underscored that while never free of ethical tensions and compromises, Feminist Environmental reading groups can be a playful, affirmative and generative method for field building and research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Homelessness among women is a pressing social problem and the barriers to solving it are difficult to shift. A number of scholars have argued that, in addition to the gender pay gap, unpaid labour and family violence, the problem lies in the fact that responses to homelessness are still shaped by conceptualisations that developed when it was seen as a problem of white adult men. And yet there has been no close analysis of how and why these conceptualisations took root, and how they were reinforced and perpetuated. Focusing on the pivotal 1970s, when homeless women were first constituted a 'problem' in Australia and feminism became a compelling political force, this article examines how feminists both challenged and reinforced those conceptualisations. It argues that feminist responses were shaped by different forms of professional knowledge which led to divergent outcomes, and it uses a rare cache of interviews to show how homeless women's narratives refute the assumptions on which old ideas were built. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While the home has a history of being overlooked as a site of great social impact, this is clearly shifting as it becomes a site for diverse and significant social participation. Technological connectivity is reshaping the household towards an increasingly public life, remarkable for a domain that until relatively recently had been thought of primarily in terms of privatised care and leisure. This article brings together literature from creative industries, feminist and new domesticity fields with empirical data from interviews with home-based creative practitioners to generate insights into new work models, the coincidence of paid work and unpaid care work, and creative work at home as a locus for connecting to surrounding communities and natural environments. These lived examples are explored as signs of an altering domestic space where paid work and non-economic values are more balanced and the home itself is moving from the periphery towards the centre of social life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2001, the first major study of the extent of men's violence against women in Sweden reported that almost every other woman had been exposed to male violence. This article investigates how this feminist-based survey was negotiated by the press and in national politics. The legitimacy of the investigation was undermined in a number of ways, both in the media and in politics. The report was defined as partial and not as reliable as ‘conventional’ criminological research. The resistance provoked by the investigation is here interpreted as a way of producing nationalistic notions, where ‘Swedishness’ is recreated as being woman-friendly, just and equal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article introduces articles in the November 2002 issue of the journal "Australian Feminist Studies." Inclusion of developments in biomedical research that posed provocative questions for feminist theories of identity and embodiment; Papers presented at the 2001 Australian Women's Studies Association's conference.

Anything painted has a particular beauty when seen in a looking glass, provided it be free from faults; and it is wonderful how every defect in the picture will therein show more considerable. (Leon Battista Alberti, quoted in Kahr 1976, 176, n. 74) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the Newberry Library's Chicago Protest Collection and its 'posters with glitter issues', that is, protest ephemera classified by conservation concern due to the amount of glitter and glue used in its construction. The Newberry's collection of protest materials is a unique and at-times contradictory archival body. What allows these materials to hang together is their glitter proximity; how they shed, spread, accumulate, and intermingle in the stacks. Drawing from in-situ research at the Newberry, as well as interviews with Newberry archivists and an artist creating textiles in response to queer archival absence, this article 'follows the glitter' in order to position feminist and queer archival records as transgressive and leaky. Thinking alongside archival theorising on the archival body, and feminist and queer studies of glitter as world-building, I trace and corral glitter across four distinct but interpolated acts of records shaping that constitute the Newberry Library's collection of protest materials: Initial inscription (glitter on the hands), collective constitution (glitter on the street), institutional archivalisation (glitter on the floor), and artistic use (glitter in the air). In undertaking this analysis, I demonstrate how this bright and glittery archival body continually creates, sustains, obscures, and fabulates feminist and queer life worlds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Big infrastructure responses to climate change seek to protect the heteropatriarchal capitalist status quo. In contrast, this article develops a theory and method of practice-led research to facilitate better weathering. In so doing the article contends that a transformative feminist response to climate change needs alternative, collective, feminist infrastructures. The feminist specificity of the infrastructure proposed here emerges through its proximity to the concept 'weathering'. As a feminist figuration, weathering attunes us to human embodiment and difference in a time of climate change, where 'weather' is not only meteorological, but the total atmospheres that bodies are made to bear. An infrastructure for better weathering thus centres opportunities to acknowledge and account for embodied difference and the differential effects of weather as a specifically feminist design feature. Better weathering is not neoliberal resilience, but rather attention to and redistribution of low-stakes vulnerability as an infrastructural politics. The article proceeds in two parts. We theorise a feminist infrastructure. We then pilot the infrastructure in a series of practice-led research activities. We argue these new infrastructures facilitate low-stakes vulnerability between strangers and so enable better weathering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article points to the paradox in feminist citation practices. It provides a brief overview of the key issues at stake in feminist citational practices. By highlighting the ways in which the logic of territoriality, authority and property continues to inform the mood and mode of moralistic repair, it cautions again the reification of certain racialised and gendered bodies as the remedy, ground and supplement for feminist research ethics. Thinking through the figure of the (bio)degradable, this article asks whether it is possible to consider feminist citation as use/less. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the plans for the extension of activism through investigation of western feminists working in China. Linkage of women between feminism and internationalism; Activities of world women in promotion of internationalism; Plan of world women for modernization and nationalist struggle.

This article focuses on the significance of postgraduate supervisory practices in enhancing the role of women in society. Discussion on postgraduate pedagogy and feminist methodologies; Relationship between supervisor and student during candidature; Applicability of higher education/learning to women.

This article details the conference on contemporary feminism entitled "Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism" held in Lancaster, England on July 17-19, 1997. Participants, speakers and issues discussed in conference; Focus on feminist ethics; Concepts related to transformation.

This conference reports on the Generations of Feminist Studies Conference that was held on June 28-30, 2005 at the Art Gallery of South Australia. The plenary speakers were notable for their challenging and innovative feminist scholarship. Their papers explored dimensions of race, ethnicity, sexuality, transnationalism and popular culture.

Feminist theories of embodiment, particularly those that have emerged from corporeal feminism, have been influenced by the psychoanalytic distinction between the hysterical body and the anatomical body [Wilson, Elizabeth. 2015. Gut Feminism. Durham: Duke University Press]. Following Freud and his concepts of the body ego and somatic compliance, psychoanalytic assertions that the way the body is lived is psychically informed have proven productive to feminist aims. Freud proposes the notion of somatic compliance as the explanatory rationale for hysterical symptomatology's strange ability to express itself in a manner incommensurable with medical explanation. This article opens and extends those questions raised by the anatomical body that originally perplexed Freud in the case of Dora. In particular, it queries the notion of somatic compliance by asking: what is the character of anatomy such that it can defy and revise its own apparent limits? How can the hysterical body achieve feats that the non-hysterical body cannot? And lastly, what does it mean to comply somatically? In this way, the article responds to the anti-biologism that continues to feature in much feminist scholarship on corporeality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this short response to Kate Eichhorn's article, 'Girls in the Public Sphere: Dissent, Consent, and Media Making', I extend her analysis by offering three points of provocation which challenge the idea of the digital sphere as a public sphere. As Eichhorn points out, the digital sphere offers more access and visibility to girls, so that this contemporary version of the public is not characterised by an absence of girls—even if this participation is mined for data for corporations. This is a crucial point, but even within that framework, specific girls continue to be excluded. This is an important difference—between absence and exclusion—that is worth parsing out. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article critiques Donna Haraway's slogan 'make kin not babies' via a reading of her SF tale 'The Camille Stories'. It does so by considering the relationship between the care labour practices involved in making both kin and babies. The article has two central operations. It is an explicitly eco-social feminist argument against the use of making kin as an uncomplicated theoretical standpoint in the environmental humanities. At the same time, it deconstructs the iconic feminist ambit to be liberated from housework. These parallel operations emerge by characterising making kin as a kind of housework, which is a deeply ironic evaluation of Haraway's slogan. Overall the article is a response to the question: how is the work involved in making kin both the same as and different to the labour of making babies? The answer is constructed through the method of literary close reading, paying attention to genre and plot of 'The Camille Stories' alongside Fiona McGregor's novel Indelible Ink [2010. Melbourne: Scribe Publications] and Quinn Eades's all the beginnings: a queer autobiography of the body [2015. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing]. These comparative readings enable a reckoning with the gnarly and contradictory implications of 'making kin' across contemporary environmental humanities and feminisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We propose that feminist studies are particularly well-situated to analyse the paradox of what 'we humans' want as we gaze into the eyes of planetary catastrophe. The contributions in the special issue evoke tensions between a capitalist imperative to consume, activist calls for resistance, and queer feminist figurations of sex and longing. Asking in turn what we as editors want from the project of feminist environmental humanities, we respond: (1) we want to spark new relations between desire and demand from within environmental crisis; (2) we want a fulsomely feminist environmental humanities; (3) we want to inhabit the difficult and necessary articulation of 'feminism' and 'environment'; (4) we want multiple, situated, perversely scaled and historically awkward genealogies for environmental humanities; and (5) we want 'to take up the burden of remaking our world'. We contextualise these demands via a series of examples: the drought and bushfires currently gripping the places we are writing from; Betty Grumble's performance LOVE AND ANGER; an origin story of feminist environmental humanities as told from our particular perspectives; and a 1943 short story, 'Dry Spell', by Australian writer Marjorie Barnard. We argue for the feminist potency of holding desire in tension with demand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article interrogates the gendered nature of modernism via analysis of the art work of two modern women painters, the American Edna Reindel and the Australian Sybil Craig. Each portrayed women working in shipbuilding, aircraft and munitions factories during the Second World War. While their paintings of women at work could be seen as complicit in the hegemonic masculinist political regimes which considered women a reserve army of labour, a feminist inter/modern reading runs counter to the conventional view that the masculinity of modern times was barely disturbed by women stepping into unusual roles under exceptional circumstances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article celebrates friendship as a valid starting point for scholarly enquiry and uses conversation as a valuable methodology. While completing their doctoral research on modernist short stories and women's art collectives, co-authors Rydstrand and Mayhew discovered New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield was a contact point between their respective projects. Around 1981, Harridan Screenprinters quoted Mansfield's injunction to 'Risk anything' on a poster, invoking Mansfield as a role model—as a leading modernist author and as a risk-taker. Mayhew later gave Rydstrand a copy of the poster as a thesis submission gift. This article explores interrelations between personal, creative and professional risks, from Mansfield's avant-garde milieu of the early twentieth century, to the dynamic scene of second-wave feminism in Australia, and finally to the precarious world of the twenty-first century academy, all brought together by the physical artefact of the Mansfield poster. In this threefold engagement, we counter the presumed masculinity of experiment and champion feminine forms of risk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses Martha Ansara and Elaine Welteroth, two US born feminists who came to Australia during two key moments in feminist history, as a way of thinking about the relationship between feminists and fashion. Ansara arrived in Sydney in 1969 carrying women's liberation literature in her suitcase; she became an important generative figure in the Australia's women's liberation movement, particularly as an independent filmmaker and proponent of consciousness raising. Welteroth arrived in 2017 to speak at the Sydney Writers' Festival during a period of international resurgence of feminist activism. She brought with her images of women of colour she had featured in Teen Vogue and she invoked second wave consciousness raising, albeit in a remodelled, corporate-led form when she talked about the title's plans to bring young girls around kitchen tables to 'solve' political problems. The article uses comments both women have made in relation to fashion and beauty, close readings of their works, and a discussion of their respective feminist milieus to suggest a trajectory of feminism's relationship to the fashion industry that appears to have changed from a position of opposition to one of open embrace. It also complicates this reading by pointing to the resonances between these women of different feminist eras. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]