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In an era when the metaphor of the archive is invoked to cover
almost any kind of memory, collection or accumulation, it is
important to re-examine what is entailed-politically and
methodologically-in the practice of feminist archival research.
This question is central not only to the renewed interest many
disciplines are showing in empirical research in archives but also
given the current explosion of online social and cultural data
which has fundamentally transformed what we understand an archive
to be. Contributors in this collection are keen to mark out what
may be novel and what is enduring in the ways in which feminist
thought and feminist practice frame archives. Importantly, they
engage with archives in their historical and political complexity
rather than treating them as simple repositories of source
material. In this respect, contributors are keenly interested in
what it means to archive particular materials, and not simply in
what those materials may hold for feminist researchers. The
collection features established and emerging feminist scholars and
brings together interventions from across such disciplines as
history, literature, modernist studies, cinema studies and law.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the
journal Australian Feminist Studies.
Germaine Greer is one of the most enduring and influential figures
of the second wave of the women's movement. The Female Eunuch
(1970) is one of second-wave feminism's most widely recognised
publications and its author has come to embody and indeed expand
our understanding of second-wave feminism in a way that few others
have. Yet, while Greer's public visibility never seems to wane, her
writings and her politics have failed to attract the kind of
sustained critical engagement they warrant. This volume represents
the first collection of essays to examine Greer, her politics, her
writing, and her status as a feminist celebrity. The essays in this
collection cover The Female Eunuch (1970), Greer's public rivalry
with Arianna Stassinopoulos, her time in America, her ideas and
politics, and her styling as feminist fashion icon. Many essays
include new insights drawn from previously unseen material in the
recently launched Germaine Greer Archive at the University of
Melbourne, Australia. This book was originally published as a
Special Issue of Australian Feminist Studies.
Focuses on a series of interactions and exchanges - whether
philosophical, political, aesthetic, or commercial - between
Australia and the cultures of the Asia-Pacific region.
In an era when the metaphor of the archive is invoked to cover
almost any kind of memory, collection or accumulation, it is
important to re-examine what is entailed-politically and
methodologically-in the practice of feminist archival research.
This question is central not only to the renewed interest many
disciplines are showing in empirical research in archives but also
given the current explosion of online social and cultural data
which has fundamentally transformed what we understand an archive
to be. Contributors in this collection are keen to mark out what
may be novel and what is enduring in the ways in which feminist
thought and feminist practice frame archives. Importantly, they
engage with archives in their historical and political complexity
rather than treating them as simple repositories of source
material. In this respect, contributors are keenly interested in
what it means to archive particular materials, and not simply in
what those materials may hold for feminist researchers. The
collection features established and emerging feminist scholars and
brings together interventions from across such disciplines as
history, literature, modernist studies, cinema studies and law.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the
journal Australian Feminist Studies.
Germaine Greer is one of the most enduring and influential figures
of the second wave of the women's movement. The Female Eunuch
(1970) is one of second-wave feminism's most widely recognised
publications and its author has come to embody and indeed expand
our understanding of second-wave feminism in a way that few others
have. Yet, while Greer's public visibility never seems to wane, her
writings and her politics have failed to attract the kind of
sustained critical engagement they warrant. This volume represents
the first collection of essays to examine Greer, her politics, her
writing, and her status as a feminist celebrity. The essays in this
collection cover The Female Eunuch (1970), Greer's public rivalry
with Arianna Stassinopoulos, her time in America, her ideas and
politics, and her styling as feminist fashion icon. Many essays
include new insights drawn from previously unseen material in the
recently launched Germaine Greer Archive at the University of
Melbourne, Australia. This book was originally published as a
Special Issue of Australian Feminist Studies.
This book is concerned with the gender order of post-Fordism, and
especially the labour demanded from many women by post-Fordist
capitalism. It maps and traces these demands as well their
entanglement in complex processes of value creation. In so doing
the contributors elaborate how processes of financialization; calls
for work-readiness; new modes of economic calculation; processes of
economization, and emergent regulatory strategies are reconfiguring
labour and life in post-Fordism and summoning new forms of 'women's
work'. Contributors also map how these same processes are
repositioning feminism, especially feminism as a mode of critique.
Feminism here stands not in an external relation to the objects and
matters it seeks to critique but as implicated in those very
objects. In mapping this terrain Gender and Labour in New Times
opens out new feminist research agendas for the study of the
post-Fordist labour and the modes of regulation that post-Fordism
as a regime of capital accumulation entails. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Australian Feminist
Studies.
This work focuses on a series of interactions and exchanges -
whether philosophical, political, aesthetic or commercial - between
Australia and the cultures of the Asia-Pacific region. Emphasis is
placed on the discursive means by which Asia is represented and/or
implicated in a variety of contemporary Australian cultural
practices, and on a consideration of the complex network of
economies which constitute those representations: market economies,
economies of bodies, sexualities and desire; and economies of
exchange, production and consumption. By focusing on such practices
as film, the visual arts, advertising and journalism, these essays
also examine the various processes by which Asia is recoded,
re-presented and marketed in Australia. Cultural contexts include
Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia and the
Pacific Rim.
New Feminist Research Ethics re-examines the place of the ethical
in feminist research and identifies new ethical priorities for
feminist researchers. As urgent social, political and environmental
challenges demand new ethical sensibilities, contributors revisit
the relationship between feminism and research to ask what it means
to be an ethical feminist researcher now. They explore how
hierarchies of privilege have shaped our understandings of research
ethics and question how evolving understandings of feminist
research ethics sit alongside formal institutional ethics
processes. Contributors also situate feminist research ethics in
the context of a broader ethics of care and repair. Importantly,
New Feminist Research Ethics acknowledges the need for feminist
ethical research frameworks that encompass multiple perspectives
and draw from diverse traditions of knowing. The volume brings
together established and emerging scholars, and perspectives from
sociology, history, gender studies, archival studies, cultural
studies, and architecture. It was originally published as a special
issue of the journal Australian Feminist Studies.
This book is concerned with the gender order of post-Fordism, and
especially the labour demanded from many women by post-Fordist
capitalism. It maps and traces these demands as well their
entanglement in complex processes of value creation. In so doing
the contributors elaborate how processes of financialization; calls
for work-readiness; new modes of economic calculation; processes of
economization, and emergent regulatory strategies are reconfiguring
labour and life in post-Fordism and summoning new forms of 'women's
work'. Contributors also map how these same processes are
repositioning feminism, especially feminism as a mode of critique.
Feminism here stands not in an external relation to the objects and
matters it seeks to critique but as implicated in those very
objects. In mapping this terrain Gender and Labour in New Times
opens out new feminist research agendas for the study of the
post-Fordist labour and the modes of regulation that post-Fordism
as a regime of capital accumulation entails. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Australian Feminist
Studies.
This collection analyzes shifting relationships between gender and
labour in post-Fordist times. Contingency creates a sexual contract
in which attachments to work, mothering, entrepreneurship and
investor subjectivity are the new regulatory ideals for women over
a range of working arrangements, and across classed and raced
dimensions.
Inspired by a rapidly changing fashion landscape, Fashion: New
Feminist Essays offers historical and contemporary studies that
reveal the relationships between fashion with gender, sexuality,
race, and age. Fashion is a rich terrain for feminist scholars in
the twenty-first century. Explicit engagements with feminist and
queer politics, critical interventions by industry outsiders across
digital platforms, diversifying images of stylish bodies, and
ongoing discussions of the ethics and sustainability of fashion
production: all of these point to an urgent need to reappraise the
relationship of fashion to feminism and other justice-seeking
movements. The essays in this collection take up fashion as a
feminist critical tool that uniquely holds together the lived and
represented body with larger cultural structures. Contributors
unearth surprising new lines of connection between gender,
sexuality, race, age, and religion in their relationship to
capitalism, both historically and in the present. Bringing together
established and emerging scholars, and perspectives from gender
studies, history, sociology, philosophy, and literary studies,
Fashion: New Feminist Essays traces the far-reaching impact of this
most feminized of forms, underscoring the significance of fashion
studies for understanding the politics of culture. This book was
originally published as a special issue of the Australian Feminist
Studies journal.
The emergence of digital technologies in the realm of archives has
enlivened our understandings of archival materialities and lent a
new intensity to our engagements with the archived page by
prompting us to consider the potential of paper and the page in
ways that we have hitherto largely ignored. Paper, Materiality and
the Archived Page responds to this provocation by setting out an
approach or an orientation to 'thinking through paper'. Critically,
it questions what work the archived page does if it is more than an
invisible or transparent support to text. Three exemplary case
studies are offered on the letters of Greta Garbo, the messy
archival remains of Australian writer Eve Langley and the letters
and manuscripts of English poet Valentine Ackland. Together they
demonstrate how approaches grounded in concerns with materiality
and matter can shift how we understand archival research and what
we accept as archival 'evidence'. They also reveal the emergent
capacities of the paper page.
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