Dr Bronwyn Winter

PhD, LèsL, MèsL (ParisIII), RSADip TEFLA (Lond)
Senior Lecturer
Director, International and Comparative Literary Studies
Associate Dean, Undergraduate Matters, Faculty of Arts
Room 747, Brennan MacCallum Building A18

+61 2 9351 4653

• Colonisation, decolonisation and the postcolonial French-speaking world (esp. North Africa and the Caribbean)
• Twentieth century political theories and social movements, esp. antiracist, feminist, gay/lesbian and anti-globalisation movements, in France, Australia, North Africa, the Philippines and Israel/Palestine
• Feminist theory esp. transnational feminism
• Culture, religion and politics esp. although not solely in relation to the Muslim world and diaspora
• Women and political participation
• The State, nationalism and internationalism, esp. in relation to human rights, women, war, globalisation, and ethnicity/cross-cultural issues in a “post-9/11” world
• Theatre studies
• Comparative literature in particular postcolonial, feminist and lesbian literature, and the history, esthetics and critiques of orientalism in literature and in dance
• Gay and lesbian studies
• 17th century baroque & classicism
• The ideology of the French Revolution & of the First and Third Republics

Current Research Projects

• Women and campaigns against militarism, sexual violence and ethnic domination in the Philippines
• Book project on the lasting impacts of 9/11 on women’s rights globally and on transnational feminist activism
• “La queerisation de l’antiracisme” in France

Books:

• 2008a. Hijab and the Republic: Uncovering the French Headscarves Debate. Sycracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. In press, forthcoming November 2008.

Edited Books:

• 2002a (contributing ed., with Susan Hawthorne). September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives. Melbourne: Spinifex.

Chapters in Books:

• 2008b. “One hijab does not fit all: recontexualising the case for secularism.” In Beyond the hijab debates: new conversations on gender, race and religion, ed. Christina Ho and Tanja Dreher. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming.
• 2008c. “Scary Women and Masculinist Protection Rackets.” In Phobias: The Post-9/11 Syndrome, ed. Mark Roberts. New York: State University of New York Press. Forthcoming.
• 2006a. “The Social Foundations of the Sacred: Feminists and the Politics of Religion.” In Handbook of Gender and Women’s Studies, ed. K. Davis, M. Evans and J. Lorber, 92-108. London: Sage Publications.
• 2002b. “Pauline and Other Perils: Women in Australian Right-Wing Politics”. In P. Bacchetta and M. Power (eds). Right-Wing Women: from Conservatives to Extremists Around the World. New York: Routledge, 197-210.
• 2000a. “Women and Human Rights in Europe: Views from France.” In Rewriting Rights in Europe, ed. Linda Hancock and Carolyn O’Brien. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 25-52
• 1998a. “Adherence or Appropriation? Images of Maghrebian Women and the French Ideal of Nationhood.” In Shifting Bonds, Shifting Bounds: Women, Mobility and Citizenship in Europe, ed. V. Ferreira, T. Tavares & S. Portugal. Oeiras, Portugal: Celta Editore, 149-163.

Articles in refereed journals:

• 2008d. “La peste occidentale: identitarisme ethnique et hétérosexisme.” Sexualité, Genre et Sociétés, forthcoming.
• 2007a. “Pre-emptive fridge magnets and other weapons of masculinist destruction: the rhetoric and reality of ‘Safeguarding Australia’.” Signs: A Journal of Women, Culture and Society 33(1): 25-52.
• 2006b. “Religion, culture and women’s human rights: Some general political and theoretical considerations.” Women’s Studies International Forum 29(4): Special issue on Islam, gender and human rights in Asia and the Pacific: 381-93.
• 2006c. “Secularism Aboard the Titanic: Feminists and the Debate over the Hijab in France.” Feminist Studies 32(2): 279-98.
• 2002c. with Sheila Jeffreys and Denise Thompson. “The UN Approach to Harmful Traditional Practices: Some Conceptual Problems.” International Feminist Journal of Politics 4: 72-94.
• 2002d. “Women's rights, globalisation and the nation-state: are human rights and democracy enough?” Australian Feminist Law Journal 17, December 2002: 1-16.
• 2001a. “Fundamental Misunderstandings: Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamism”, and “Naming the Oppressor, Not Punishing the Oppressed: Atheism and Feminist Legitimacy.” Journal of Women’s History 13(1): 9-41 and 53-57 respectively (featured piece in “Theoretical Issues” section of journal, and my rejoinder to the three responses by Badran, Moghadam and Hassan).
• 2000b. “Who Counts (or Doesn’t Count) What as Feminist Theory? An exercise in dictionary use”. Feminist Theory 1(1): 105-114.
• 1999a. “L’essentialisation de l’Altérité et l’invisibilisation de l’oppression: l’histoire bizarre mais vraie de la déformation d’un concept”. Nouvelles Questions Féministes 20(4): 75-102.
• 1997a. “(Mis)representations: What French Feminism Isn’t.” Women’s Studies International Forum. 20(2): 211-224 (10,000 words).
• 1994a. “Women, the Law and Cultural Relativism in France: the Case of Excision”. Signs: A Journal of Women, Culture and Society. 19(4), 939-974 (10,000 words).

Other articles/papers:

Non-fiction:

• 2008e. “France.” International Affairs Forum: “Global Perspectives 2008.” Center for International Relations, January. www.ia-forum.org/Content/ForumContent.cfm?ForumTopicID=18
  2008f. “Why ‘questioning secularism’ destroys religious freedom.” Online Opinion, 2 May.
• 2006d. “‘Uncovered meat’ meets ‘Mr Lust’.” Online Opinion, 7 November. www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=5125
• 2006e. “Women see red on White Ribbon Day.” Online Opinion, 27 November. www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=5212
• 2005a. “Australian media hypocrisy over French inferno.” Online Opinion, 11 November. www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=18
• 2005b. “The vicious underbelly of urban culture.” (on the Cronulla riots). The Sydney Morning Herald, December 13. www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/the-vicious-underbelly-of-urban-culture/2005/12/12/1134235999893.html
• 2002e. “The politics of assimilation: are we really ‘family too’?” In Word Is Out: Online journal for gay, lesbian and queer liberation. Republished in slightly updated form in Rain and Thunder: A Radical Feminist Journal of Discussion and Activism 31, 2006.

Poetry

• 2007b. “When Did You Know” and other poems. Perverse Verse 2007. www.gay-ebooks.com.au
• 2006f. “Imprint” and other poems. Perverse Verse 2005-6. www.gay-ebooks.com.au
• 2002f. “Kabul 2002.” In An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind: Poets on 9/11, ed. Allen Cohen & Cliver Matson. Oakland, CA: Regent Press, 156-62.

• Colonisation/decolonisation/the Algerian War (Textes et Société)
• French theatre (junior and senior courses)
• Francophone Studies: The Maghreb, West Africa, The Caribbean
• French feminist and antiracist social and political theory
• 17th century baroque & classicism
• Advanced language (2nd year)
• The ideology of the French Revolution & of the First and Third Republic
• Post WWW II French social and political theory and social movements

• Co-convenor, “Islam and the West” research cluster, University of Sydney, September 2008
• Member of the University of Sydney Law and Society research cluster and of the organising committee for the 2008 conference of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, University of Sydney, December 2008
• Keynote speaker, Brisbane International Feminist Conference, September 2008
• “Simone de Beauvoir”. Public lecture, University of Sydney Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences “Key Thinkers” lecture series, September 2005
• Panel member, “Where were you in 1984” keynote panel, Brisbane Women’s Legal Service Conference to mark the 20th anniversary of the Sex Discrimination Act, Brisbane, October 2004
• Plenary speaker on violence against women, Pacific regional NGO preparatory conference for the UN ten-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action, co-organised by HREOC, the University of NSW and the Australian National Council for Refugee Women, UNSW, June 2004
• Membre du comité scientifique international. 3ème colloque international de la recherche féministe francophone: “Ruptures, Résistances et Utopies” Toulouse, 17-22 septembre 2002
• Keynote Speaker at the international conference “Poverty, Violence and Women's Rights: Setting a Global Agenda”. Townsville 3-7 July 2002
• Member of organising committees of "Workers Out!", the Second International Conference on Trade Unionism and Homosexuality: University of Sydney Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2002
• Member of International Faculty, (1999-2000), Institute for Women's Studies, Lahore
• Plenary speaker at the international conference “Cinquantenaire du Deuxième sexe de Simone de Beauvoir”, Paris, 1999.
• Contribution to course design, BA by correspondence in Women's Studies, Deakin University, Geelong, 1997