Honours theses in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies

Surname

First name

Thesis title

Year

Anderson

Jane

Regulating and Normalising Images of Australia: Explorations of Bush Tucker Man as a function of governmentality

1997

Anderson

Helen

Anne Howe and the Sydney Gazette and NSW Advertiser (M.Litt)

2000

Babynec

Alexandra

Big Things and Small Things: The Fictional and Non-Fictional Writing Practices of Arundhati Roy

2003

Baldwin

Hailey

Understanding Pro-Anorexia Identities: Self-Expression, Tribal Thinking and the Internet.

2006

Ballou

Emily

Deterritorialising Anorexia (M. Litt)

1994

Bauder

Amy

‘Oh baby...oh yeah...that’s great...you’re just so...cautious’

2007

Beddoe

Julie

“My Body, My Choice”: The dilemmas of liberalism in the WA Parliamentary Debates on Abortion

1998

Berrick

Genevieve

Drag King.  Camp Acts, Queer Bodies, Desiring Audiences

2005

Boyd-Caine

Tessa

Reconciling Sisterhood: The Women’s Reconciliation Network a a model of unity through difference

1999

Braddock

Rowena

Literature and Ethics: An Impossible Relation Reading the Writing of Alterity in Levinas, Derrida and Cixous

2000

Brand

Megan

Too Many Choices: A Study of Young Boys at an Independent School

2000

Bruce

Jasmine

Governing Birth: An Analysis of the Report on the Decline in the Birth Rate

2000

Butler

Cherie

Pregnant Subjectivity and the logic of Court-ordered Caesareans

1996

Cahill

Erin

Defining the Legislative Self: An analysis of the Property (Relationships) Act 1984

2000

Carey

Michelle

Deconstructing Whiteness: Constructing Non-indigenousness: Reconceiving WhiteRacial Identities in Invader Societies (M. Litt)

1998

Chapple

Kim

Assuming Responsibility: Politics, Communication and Intellectuals

2005

Coad

Elizabeth

The Generation Gap

1997

Curran

Rebecca

Changing Subjects: Anne Sexton’s Transformations

Davies

Laura

Speaking from Experience: Writing Theory in a context of the ‘Personal’

2002

Davies

Catherine Marie

Galactorrhea: Lactation Unleashed

2005

Durack

Robyn Louise

For Example.......

1997

Eldridge

Adam

Exploring another Outback

1998

Eldridge

Adam

Of Other Places: Theming Geography, Identity and History (D.Phil)

2002

Elliott

Erica Brandt

The Politics of “I”: Women’s Magazines, the real me and power asymmetries

1999

Else-Mitchell

Rosamund

Living Fictions: An Active Reading of Jeanette Winterson’s Texts

1996

Emerson

Nicole

The law, competing discourses and the disorder of women (M. Litt)

1997

Eversden

Allison

Nil By Mouth: Masculine loss and the Violence of Men

2000

Frossinakis

Stella

Cross my eye

2006

Gilmour

Joanna

“All Sorts of Lives”: Feminism, Modernity and the journal and letters of Katherine Mansfield

1996

Hill

Frances

Eating into habitus: The asian influence on Australian home cooking practices

2005

Hughes

Rodney

The Subject(ion) in the Cell: On the applications of Psychoanalytic and Ideological Rhetoric in Three Animated Filmic Texts

2000

Iman

Diah Tyahaya

Ambivalence and Conflict in Women’s Writing: A Comparative study of Feminist ideas in Drusilla Modjeska, Helen Garner, Nh. Dini and Ayu Utami

2001

Imison

Michelle

Fabric-actions: History, Strategy, Place and the Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt

1998

James

Kerrie

Domestic Violence: Broadening the theoretical base for more effective intervention with men who are violent (M. Litt)

1997

Jeffrey

Kate

No, it’s not glamorous, it hurs: Sexual Ambiguity in the Art of Tracey Emin

2005

Jones

Meredith

I Looked down and said “Wow!”

1998

Jung

Kyungja lee

Sexual Assault against NESB Women in Australia Focused on Silence and Speaking out (M. Litt)

1997

Kivenson

Vlada

Transmigrant Homelands: A Family’s Transmigrant Experience

2003

Lee

Gyung Sook Jane

Korean Australian migrant women’s perception of domestic violence: focus on discourse analysis

2000

McKenzie

Kirsty

Clever or clueless? Female identity and agency in popular and academic discourse

1996

Menon

Sunil

Guilty of (Not) Being White: A critical insider’s perspective of race, anarchism and punk

2005

Mitchell

Marilyn

Six Writers and Mental Illness: How has suffering a mental illness affected the lives and work of six writers/poets?

1998

Munro

Emma Ross

Kismet: An Analysis of Social Robotics (Mlitt)

2000

Murray

Samantha Louise

Filling the Fat Body: The Implications of Outing Eating

2001

Northey

Jo

“Queering the Addict”: Towards a Reconceptualisation of Drug Use

1997

Orr

Fiona

Good and Mad Mothers: Mother-Blame in Schizophrenia 1950-1980 (M. Litt)

1996

Pentes

Tatiana

Cruel Beauty (M. Litt)

1998

Principe

Katrina Louise

I am .... Identity and Film

2002

Rawlinson

Ruth Margaret

Slash Fandom and the Construction of Online Community

2000

Roberts

Zoe

he ‘Danger of Dangers’: The Politics of Compassionate Feeling in Contemporary Australia

2005

Robertson

Helen

‘One for the father, one for the mother and one for the counry’

2005

Robinson

Penelope

Grin and Bare it: An Alternative approach to depilatory practices

2002

Subrata

Emiy ayu

At Home.  Cosmoplitan Indonesia, ideology, pleaseure and imagined community

2005

Tregoning

William Prevost

Boys just wanna have fun: The Fun Boy

2002

Usuda

Akiko

Living with Confusions: The Dissatisfaction of Japanese University Educated full-time housewives  (M. Litt)

1999

Venables

Debra

What is a Patriotic Woman to do?  The Politics of Nationalism, Gender and Anzac Mythology

2005

Wallace

Heather Grace

Stuff You, I’m Knitting: Negotiating Care and Domesticity in Contemporary Society

2005

Watson

John Foster

Brandon Teena: Gender Troubled

2001

Westbrook

Anna

Female Monstrosities: The voluptuous Grotesque, Abject Bodies & Mortal Carnality

2007

Whipps

Nicola

The Pine Gap Women’s Protest 1983: Radical Feminist Activism and the Politics of Coaliition and Difference

1997

Williams

Monique

Sex, Rape and Desire

2004

Wynd

Patricia Ann

Ressentiment in the Suburbs: Critical relections on the political paralysis in Australian Society

2005

Young

Elizabeth

Unrecognised Feminists? Revisiting Owner/Principals of Private Girls schools 1882-1942

2000

Zipkis

Lisa Helen

Beyond the binary - Wilhelm Reich: Somatic theories of embodiment

2006