Honours theses in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies

The list below is of the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies’ thesis holdings. Unless otherwise identified, these are Honours theses. These theses are available for loan to staff, students and those outside the University of Sydney community.

Some recent Honours theses can also be found online in the Sydney eScholarship Repository.

Postgraduate theses are held in the Rare Book Collection at Fisher Library.

Borrowing procedures for Honours theses:

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Loan Periods:

University of Sydney academics - 6 week loans + renewals
University of Sydney general staff - 6 week loan
Current USYD students: 7 calendar day loans + 1 renewal
Non USYD borrowers: 6 hours on campus (10am-4pm, Monday-Friday)

Please note: Unless available electronically via eScholarship repository, we are unable to provide electronic copies of these theses. If you wish to borrow a thesis, you will need to come to the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry in order to borrow.

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Thesis library holdings

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
Blackie	Georgia	Lost for Words: Representing Subjectivity with(in) Perzines	2009
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
Coady	Laura	Queer(ing) Subjects of Discourse: The difficulties of speaking of women's same-sex domestic violence	2008
Curran	Rebecca	Changing Subjects: Anne Sexton's Transformations
D'Aran	Lauren	Our Cinematic Eyes	2009
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
Kean	Jessica	Mapping Intimacies in Queer Female Communities	2009
Kivenson	Vlada	Transmigrant Homelands: A Family's Transmigrant Experience	2003
Leaver	Rebecca	Male Teachers as Role Models	2008
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	The '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
Steven	Mark	The Late World: A Critical Theory	2008
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