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Feminine/Masculine and Representation provides a much needed
introduction to a number of challenging issues raised in debates
within gender studies, critical theory and cultural studies. In
analysing cultural processes using a range of different methods,
the essays in this collection focus on gender/sexuality,
representation and cultural politics across a variety of media.
"Feminist Poetics" argues that the influence of poststructuralism
has changed poetics from the study of ready-made textual forms into
poesis--the study of the making or performing of those forms.
Threadgold takes the infamous Governor murder stories--a
sensational murder case in Australia in 1900--as a case study and
uses the extensive group of texts produced about the case to answer
the questions raised by feminist theory--who writes and for whom,
and who reads and how and why.
"Feminine/Masculine and Representation" provides a much needed
introduction to some challenging issues raised in debates within
gender studies, critical theory and cultural studies. In analyzing
cultural processes using a range of different methods, the essays
in this collection focus on gender/sexuality, representation and
cultural politics across a variety of media. This collection of
essays makes an important contribution to debate on the role of
representation in the social construction of the patriarchal gender
order. It deals centrally with questions about sex and gender,
subjectivity and signification. In her editor's introduction Terry
Threadgold confronts the scepticism of those resistant to the
challenge which poststructuralist semiotics ("that language stuff")
poses to all branches of knowledge. She points out that these
discourses about language, or semiosis, seem arcane only because
they have not yet become part of everyday life, as have similar
specialist discourses like economics, government, sociology,
biology. Terry Threadgold, Associate Professor of English at the
University of Sydney, is the author of "Feminist Poetics". Anne
Cranny-Francis teaches cultural studies and critical theory at the
University of Wollongong and is the author of "Feminist Fiction".
This book is intended for students and researchers in gender
studies, cultural studies and critical theory.
Migrations and the Media critically explores the global reporting
of "migration crises," bringing together a range of original
interdisciplinary research from the fields of migration studies and
journalism, media and cultural studies. Its chapters examine,
empirically and theoretically, some of the most important
contemporary political, cultural and social issues with which
migration is entwined, developing existing and new conceptual
understandings of how forced migration and other instances of
migration are represented and constructed as "crises" in different
international contexts, including within news narratives on human
trafficking and smuggling, asylum seeking and humanitarian
reporting, "climate refugees," undocumented and economic migrants,
and in election debates and policy making. This edited volume also
examines the reporting practices through which migration coverage
is produced, including the rights and responsibilities of
journalism and the presuppositions and pressures upon journalists
working in this area.
Feminist Poetics in concerned with all of these questions, but also
with the issue of rewriting an older poetics for what it does not
say about the marginalisation of the feminine. The first half of
the book traces the trajectory of a particular, feminine, academic
subject learning to find her voice. The second half uses that
differently disciplined voice to re-read the textual traces of the
Governor murder stories, murders committed against white women and
children by black men in Australia in 1900. This book is a feminist
poetics for those who are engaged in the teaching of literacies,
and in the making of Knowledge about literacies.
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