Humanities and Social Sciences

Gender, Sexuality and Diversity Studies

Affiliated Staff

• Asian Studies
• Cinema Studies
• English
• History
• Legal Studies
• Media Studies
• Philosophy
• Politics
• Public Health
• Sociology & Anthropology
• Theatre & Drama
  

Asian Studies

Lidia Tanaka: Japanese interview genre and gender difference.

Cinema Studies

Felicity Collins: Feminist Film Theory; gender, sexuality and cultural difference in the cinema.

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English

Carol Merli: Contemporary Australian women's writing

Paul Salzman: Contemporary Australian women's writing

Sue Thomas: nineteenth- and twentieth-century women's writing, decolonisation theory, feminist and gender theory, and Caribbean literature

Kay Torney: Psychoanalysis and feminism; literature and medicine; representations of the reproductive body

David Tacey: Relation between gender and archetype & relation between social constructions of gender & psychological expressions of gender in dream & mythic productions.

Sue Martin: Australian literature and cultural studies; nineteenth century Australian women's writing, gender and space, the cultural study of gardens and gardening

Alison Ravenscroft: Cultural and critical theories of the production of gender, race and sexuality; twentieth-century Australian women's literature, including fiction and lifestory; book culture and the relations of textual production, including editing and publishing.

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History

Tracey Banivanua-Mar: Race formation & race relations; colonialism & colonial relations; Indigenous studies; Australian & Pacific colonial history.

Anne Gardner: Judaism & Christianity; feminism and the Bible.

Marilyn Lake: Women, gender & power in Australia; the construction of feminity, masculinity & citizenship; feminist theory.

Jennifer Ridden: Irish & British history; nationalism & national identity, citizenship; civil society & 19th century liberalism; transnational history & migration.

Legal Studies

Sue Davies: Critical Criminology, Socio-Legal History and Sexuality Studies

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Media Studies

Sue Turnbull: Representation of women in the media; women and popular culture - magazines, romance, soap operas, detective fiction; pornography; construction of the female audience'; multicultural issues in relation to women and the media

Philosophy

Janna Thompson: Women and moral theory; women in relation to political philosophy

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Politics

Dennis Altman: Politics, Culture and Society in US and Australia; Sexuality and Sexual Regulation; Globalisation and Development in the Asia-Pacific Region; Community and Global Responses to HIV/AIDS.

Public Health

Simon Barraclough: gender and tobacco control, the salience of gender in policies for tobacco control.

Sociology & Anthropology

Lorraine Mortimer: Gender and sexuality, relationship between finite, carnal, embodied beings and their `romantic' aspirations and possibilities; masculinity (particularly apocalyptic and nationalist versions), maternity and child-raising.

Rosemary Wearing: Domestic violence; gender issues in relation to law/legal reforms, prisons etc; gender and urban planning

Helen Lee: Doctoral thesis was ethnography of childhood in Tonga, looking particularly at identity construction and the acquisition of 'culture'

Raelene Wilding: Everyday life; Australian society; families; migration; ethnicity; gender; qualitative research methods

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Theatre and Drama

Peta Tait: The study of cultural languages of emotions, gender identity, theatrical emotions, and the analysis of bodies and cultural identity in physical theatre and circus performance.