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Deas, Megan Elizabeth. "Imagining Australia: Community, participation and the 'Australian Way of Life' in the photography of the Australian Women's Weekly, 1945-1956." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/148424.
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While the cultural history and practices of press photography in Australia have gained scholarly attention in recent years, the contribution of other forms of photography published in magazines—including editorial, advertising and readers’ photographs—to burgeoning concepts of nationhood has been largely overlooked. This thesis examines the role of photography in visualising a post-war ‘imagined community’ in a study of The Australian Women’s Weekly magazine, the highest-circulating weekly publication in the country, between the end of the Second World War in 1945 and the introduction of television in 1956. In its examination of these photographs, the thesis asks: What narratives of national identity were evident in the photographs? What subject matter and framing techniques were frequently employed to construct a national photographic language? And what does this reveal about the values the Weekly’s publisher and editors attached to being Australian? I argue that the Weekly was not passively depicting or reflecting a national community and its ‘Way of Life’, but that it actively constructed an Australian identity through the thousands of photographs it published, while simultaneously instructing its readers what good citizenship looked like—and how to perform their belonging to the nation. Visual analysis of over 200 photographs highlights the predominant narratives during the period, including an emphasis on the practice of family photography to reinforce ideals of urban, family life as centred within the modern home. Representations of immigration and Aboriginal Australians, the repetition of photographs of families participating in community events, and a valorisation of the rural worker’s relationship with the land were intertwined with the concepts of ordinariness and of the ‘Australian Way of Life’. These core ideals were deployed to enable multiple and potentially oppositional narratives to coexist on the pages of the magazine. Analysis of a series of readers’ colour travel photographs published in the later years of the study foregrounds the Weekly’s encouragement of its readers as collaborators by providing them with an opportunity to demonstrate their performance of national identity. The magazine thus became a platform through which readers contributed to the visual narrative of Australianness, via the medium of photography as a form of participatory citizenship. The thesis foregrounds the implementation of a high-speed printing press in 1950 as a turning point at which readers saw a significant increase in the publication of colour photographs of native flora and fauna, and specifically photographs of ordinary Australians within the landscape. I argue that Alice Jackson and Esme Fenston, the Weekly’s editors during the period of study, positioned it as the mediator of knowledge about Australia, and constructed a relationship with readers based on notions of intimacy and authority. Situated within the multidisciplinary field of visual culture, and drawing from photography studies, visual anthropology, cultural history and media studies, the thesis highlights the cultural work of photography in the process of imaging, and imagining, post-war Australia.
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Davis, Laurel F. "Voyage to Terra Australis." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2004. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1648.
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This thesis in Writing is composed of two parts, a creative work for stage, and an essay that both informs the writing of the drama and reflects upon it. The creative work, entitled Ann Flinders Remembers, a musical drama based on the life and journals of Matthew Flinders, navigator and cartographer, and his wife, Ann Flinders. The drama consists of lyrics, letters, extracts, dialogue, monologue, and stage directions, the story told from the point of view of Ann Flinders remembering, and by the all-knowing Chorus, of early Greek theatre. The essay, entitled 'Reflections on and of the Pastoral', traces the genre from the early Greek plays through to more recent theatre, and precedes the creative work to show how I came to the point of writing a musical drama based on the Pastoral genre, and what literature and theory might have been an influence. In the essay, I challenge some widely held conceptions of the Pastoral, at the same time re-acquainting myself with the techniques used by dramatists throughout history. Such a course enables me to reveal the habit of mind that lies at the source of the ancient genre.
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Donovan, Jennifer. "The intellectual traditions of Australian feminism : women's clubs and societies, 1890-1920." Thesis, Faculty of Arts, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16478.
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Spurling, Kathryn Lesley History Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "The Women's Royal Australian Naval Service : a study in discrimination 1939-1960." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. History, 1988. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38740.
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Throughout history women have shown a willingness to participate actively in the defence of their country, home, and beliefs, and gave lie to the assertion that they were intrinsically less able than men when it came to achieving the ends through violent means. As Western civilization progressed however, women became restricted to ???womanly??? duties and separated from the official military sphere. The power to make war became exclusively men???s. In Australia immigration patterns, geographic features, and a particular historical period combined to create a virulently male dominated society. This was particularly apparent in the armed services. Australia did not allow women to enlist in its defence forces until 1941, a time of unprecedented national peril. Female volunteers were the final option. The Women???s Services were disbanded following World War II and not re-established until the armed forces again could not fulfil their defence commitment. The Royal Australian navy was the last service to permit a female branch, and between 1942 and 1960 the development of the Women???s Royal Australian Naval Service was inhibited by both societal values and attitudes and the traditions and priorities of the Navy.
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Wood, Susan, and s2000093@student rmit edu au. "Creative embroidery in New South Wales, 1960 - 1975." RMIT University. Architecture and Design, 2006. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20070206.160246.
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In the years between 1960 and 1975 in NSW there emerged a loosely connected network of women interested in modern or creative embroidery. The Embroiderers' Guild of NSW served as a focus for many of these women, providing opportunities for them to exhibit their work, and to engage in embroidery education as teachers or as learners. Others worked independently, exhibited in commercial galleries and endeavoured to establish reputations as professional artists. Some of these women were trained artists and wanted embroidery to be seen as 'art'; others were enthusiastic amateurs, engaged in embroidery as a form of 'serious leisure'. They played a significant role in the development of creative embroidery and textile art in NSW and yet, for the most part, their story is absent from the narratives of Australian art and craft history. These women were involved in a network of interactions which displayed many of the characteristics of more organised art worlds, as posite d by sociologist Howard Becker. They produced work according to shared conventions, they established co-operative links with each other and with other organisations, they organised educational opportunities to encourage others to take up creative embroidery and they mounted exhibitions to facilitate engagement with a public audience. Although their absence from the literature suggests that they operated in isolation, my research indicates that there were many points of contact between the embroidery world, the broader craft world and the fine art community in NSW. This thesis examines the context in which creative embroiderers worked, discusses the careers of key individuals working at this time, explores the interactions between them, and evaluates the influence that they had on later practice in embroidery and textiles in NSW.
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McFarland, Michele. "The intellectual life of Catherine Helen Spence." Thesis, University of Ballarat, 2004. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/60437.
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This thesis will argue that Catherine Helen Spence, a writer, preacher and reformer who migrated from Scotland to Australia in 1839, performed the role of a public intellectual in Australia similar to that played by a number of women of letters in Victorian England. While her ideas were strongly influenced by important British and European nineteenth-century intellectual figures and movements, as well as by Enlightenment thought, her work also reflects the different socio-political, historical and cultural environment of Australia. These connections and influences can be seen in her engagement with what were some of the "big ideas" of the nineteenth century, including feminism, socialism, religious scepticism, utopianism and the value of progress. In arguing that Spence was a public intellectual, I will consider the ways in which she used the literary genres of fiction and journalism, as well as her sermons, to try to help her fellow citizens make sense of the world, attempting to organise and articulate some of the significant ideas affecting the political, social and cultural climates in which they lived. Through the exploration of Spence's intellectual work, I will show how she can be regarded as making a significant contribution to nineteenth-century Australian intellectual life, one that has been under-recognised and under-valued.Doctor of Philosophy
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Tognini, Melinda. "A struggle for recognition: the War Widows' Guild in Western Australia 1946-1975 ; and, Exegesis: Researching and writing an organisational history." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2012. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/486.
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This thesis comprises an organisational history of the War Widow' Guild Australia WA Inc., and an essay about the research and writing process I undertook to construct such a history. The history outlines the development, struggles and achievements of the War Widows’ Guild in Western Australia from 1946 to 1975. While many were celebrating the end of the war in 1945, thousands of war widows faced an uncertain future without their husbands. Although Prime Minister John Curtin addressed the issue of war widows' pensions as part of his Post War Reconstruction initiatives, the pension was well below the basic wage. Many war widows, especially those with small children to support, now lived in near poverty. It was under these circumstances, that Mrs Jessie Mary Vasey, the widow of Major-General George Alan Vasey, established the War Widows' Craft Guild, first in Victoria in November 1945, and then in other states. In Western Australia, the Guild held its first meeting on 29 November 1946. During the early years, members undertook training in weaving and various crafts to supplement their meagre pensions. The Guild also opened tearooms on the Esplanade in Perth, as a form of income and as a central meeting place. For many war widows it was in meeting together that they found support from others who understood their own experiences of grief and loss. At a state and national level, the Guild became a powerful lobby group on behalf of all war widows influencing the government on issues such as accrued recreation leave, pensions, educational benefits and health care. Many of the pensions and benefits war widows receive today are largely due to the work of the early members of this organisation. These women fought for public recognition and expression of their loss. They fought to have war widows' pensions seen as compensation for their husband's lives rather a government handout. They persevered when the organisation faced hurdles, and fought for their rights at a time when men had the louder voices and determined the rules. The essay outlines the research and writing journey that has produced the history. It outlines the wide-ranging research I undertook for each narrative thread. This includes the writing of organisational histories; experiential research in the form of a trip to Gallipoli; archival sources such as newsletters, minutes, correspondence and photographs; contextual history such as war literature, Western Australian history and post-war history; and oral history. I describe some of the difficulties I encountered when searching for particular kinds of information. I also discuss some of the decisions underpinning the selection and shaping of information, particularly in relation to the war widows' stories and embedding an historical context, and some of the tensions at play in that process.
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Booth, Sharron. "Venturing into silences:The silence of water (novel) - and - Convicts, women and Western Australian stories (essay)." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2020. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2312.
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This thesis examines the harsh impact of convict transportation on Western Australian life and literary production with a novel, “The Silence of Water”, and an accompanying essay. The Swan River Colony (Western Australia) was established in 1829 with the express intention never to accept convicts; however, almost 10,000 men were transported there from Britain between 1850 and 1868. “The Silence of Water” depicts the life of one convict, Customs and Excise officer and former tailor Edwin Thomas Salt, who was convicted of the murder of his wife, Mary Ann, in Edinburgh in 1860. The case attracted attention in newspapers across Britain partly due to the “extreme provocation” Edwin was said to have suffered because of Mary Ann’s drinking. Edwin’s death sentence was commuted and he was transported to Western Australia in 1862. Edwin later received a conditional pardon that allowed him to live as a free man. In Western Australia he married twice, had more children and worked sporadically as a tailor. He died in Fremantle in 1910. A literate man with no prior convictions, sometimes a drunk and a bully, Edwin Salt differs from the convicts usually depicted in Western Australian fiction. Through the characters of Edwin Salt, his Australian daughter and granddaughter, “The Silence of Water” explores themes of exile, incarceration, family dislocation, secrets and intergenerational silences.
The accompanying essay claims complex convict characters are largely missing from Western Australia’s literature and suggests how “The Silence of Water” claims a place for convicts and the women associated with them in Western Australia’s founding colonial narrative. It also discusses key research frameworks, methods and literary strategies. Chapter one examines how the convict figure functions across a range of novels from 1880 to 2015 and finds that Western Australia’s convict figure differs markedly from that seen in novels from other Australian states. Chapter two examines two research methods used to write the novel: engagement with the archives and engagement with place. It demonstrates how exploration of Edwin Thomas Salt broadened to focus on the women associated with him, driven by a feminist theoretical framework. Chapter three discusses some literary strategies selected for “The Silence of Water” and their rationale, drawing on the work of contemporary Western Australian fiction writers. Overall, the thesis illuminates an under-explored area of Western Australian cultural production and contributes new knowledge about Western Australia’s convict era, the consequences of which are still visible today.
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Brien, Donna L. "The case of Mary Dean: Sex, poisoning and gender relations in Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/117977/1/T%20%28CI%29%2094%20-%20THE%20CASE%20OF%20MARY%20DEAN.pdf.
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The genre of biography is, by nature, imprecise and limited. Real lives are lived synchronously and diversely; they do not divide spontaneously into chapters, subjects or themes. All biographers construct stories, in the process forcing the disordered complexity of an actual life into a neat literary form. This doctoral submission comprises a book length creative work, Poisoned: The Trials of Mary Dean, and a reflective written component on that creative work, Writing Fictionalised Biography.
Poisoned is a biography of Mary Dean, who, although repeatedly poisoned by her husband at the end of the nineteenth century, did not die. This biography, presented in the form of a first-person memoir, is based closely on historical evidence and is supported with discursive notes and a select bibliography.
The reflective written component, Writing Fictionalised Biography, outlines the process and challenges of writing a biography when the source material available is inadequate and unreliable. In writing Poisoned my genre solution has been fictionalised biography biography which is historically diligent while utilising fictional writing strategies and incorporating fictional passages. This written component reflectively discusses how I arrived at that solution. It includes discussion of the sources I utilised in writing Poisoned, including the limitations of trial transcripts and other court records as biographical evidence; useful precursors to the form; the process wherein I located both a form for my fictionalised biography and a voice for my biographical subject; possible models I considered; how I distinguished established fact from speculative supposition in the text; as well as some of the ambivalences and ethical concerns such a narrative process implies.
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Souliman, Victoria. "“The remoteness that pains us” : National identity, expatriatism and women’s agency in the artistic exchanges between Australia and Britain in the 1920s and 1930s." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019USPCC097.
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Cette thèse explore l’influence artistique et culturelle de la Grande-Bretagne en Australie, ou les caractéristiques britanniques de l’identité australienne, depuis les années suivant la fin de la Première Guerre Mondiale jusqu’à 1941. La culture australienne de cette période a souvent été décrite comme isolée, voire même « en quarantaine », caractérisée par son acceptation tardive du modernisme. Bien qu’à cette époque la Grande-Bretagne accorde davantage d’indépendance et d’autonomie à ses dominions, l’Australie cherche à maintenir des liens culturels et impériaux en s’identifiant exclusivement à la Grande-Bretagne. Ainsi, pendant cette période, la majorité des Australiens considèrent toujours l’Angleterre comme mère patrie et Londres attire de nombreux artistes australiens expatriés. Pour reprendre les termes de Daniel Thomas, historien de l’art australien, l’Australie développe une identité culturelle dite « bi-hémisphérique Anglo-australienne », imprégnée de nationalisme, de conservatisme et de valeurs patriarcales. Cette thèse examine les échanges artistiques entre l’Australie et la Grande-Bretagne pendant les années 1920 et 1930 et met en lumière les complexités de l’identification culturelle. Elle considère tout particulièrement le fait que l’historiographie nationaliste de l’art australien a passé sous silence le rôle joué par les femmes dans la construction de l’identité nationale et dans la définition d’un art australien. A travers l’analyse des collections nationales d’art britannique et les mécanismes de circulation de l’art moderne britannique en Australie, cette thèse met en avant la dualité de l’identité culturelle australienne et la marginalisation des femmes, non seulement en tant qu’artistes mais aussi en tant que défenseuses culturelles. En mettant l’accent sur l’expérience d’expatriés australiens en Angleterre et comment ceux-ci cherchent à s’intégrer à la scène artistique britannique, cette thèse rend compte de l’importance de l’expatriation en tant que concept contribuant aux historiographies de l’art en Grande-Bretagne et en Australie. Enfin, cette thèse conceptualise le travail de deux Australiennes expatriées, Edith May Fry et Clarice Zander, qui, en tant qu’organisatrices d’expositions, ont considérablement contribué à la dissémination du modernisme en Australie et à la définition de l’identité culturelle australienne pendant l’entre-deux-guerres. L’enjeu de cette thèse est de démontrer les mécanismes qui ont permis à l’Australie de représenter sa propre identité à travers l’art tout en continuant à s’identifier à la Grande-BretagneThis thesis explores the cultural and artistic influence of Britain in Australia, or the Britishness of the Australian character, from the years directly following the end of World War I until 1941. Australia during this period was often described as an isolated, or a “quarantined”, culture characterised by its delay in accepting modernism. Despite Britain ceding more independence and autonomy to its dominions at the time, Australia sought to maintain its cultural and imperial bond, identifying exclusively with Britain in a number of ways. For instance, many Australians still considered Britain to be “Home”, while London continued to attract expatriate artists from Australia. In the words of Australian art historian Daniel Thomas, Australia developed a “bi-hemispheric Anglo-Australian cultural identity”, which was marked by nationalism, conservatism and masculinism. This thesis examines the artistic exchanges between Australia and Britain in the 1920s and 1930s, shedding light on the complexities of cultural identification. It considers in particular the fact that such nationalistic historiography of Australian art has denied women’s agency in defining Australian art and identity. The national collections of British art, as well as the mechanisms of the circulation of modern British art in Australia, are closely examined to demonstrate the dualism of Australian cultural identity and the marginalisation of women within this history, not only as artists but also as art patrons. This thesis discusses the experience of Australian expatriates in England, considering how they sought to integrate into the British art scene. In doing so, it brings to the fore the significance of expatriatism as a concept that shaped both Australian and British art historiographies. Finally, it conceptualises the achievements of two Australian expatriate women, Edith May Fry and Clarice Zander, who, as exhibition curators, played a crucial role in disseminating modernism in Australia and defining Australia’s cultural identity during the interwar period. The aim of this thesis is thus to demonstrate the mechanisms through which Australia sought to represent its national character in art, as it strove to maintain its identification with Britain
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Stell, Marion K. "Half the race : a history of Australian women in sport." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/117003.
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Australian women's success in international sport has been nothing short of
astonishing when you consider the encouragement, resources, facilities and
sponsorship directed elsewhere. Women have won the most prestigious titles in
the world, including Wimbledon, the USA Open Golf Championship and the
British Squash Championship. Women's teams have been the world champions
in netball, hockey, cricket, softball, lacrosse and waterpolo. Australian women's
names have been etched in the record books of sport throughout the world. At
the Commonwealth and Olympic Games generations of Australian women have
crowded the victory dais. Over the years 940 women have represented their
country at all the Games, winning an incredible 425 medals — 163 of them gold
medals. But after the golden girl hype has died down and the gold dust has
settled, women's sport is ultimately awarded a bronze medal in our national
identity, a cultural third place behind sportsmen and racehorses.
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Hodge, Pamela. "Fostering flowers: Women, landscape and the psychodynamics of gender in 19th Century Australia." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1998. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1435.
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It is said that when the Sphinx was carved into the bedrock of Egypt it had the head as well as the body of Sekhmet lioness Goddess who presided over the rise and fall of the Nile, and that only much later was the head recarved to resemble a male pharaoh. Simon Schama considered the 'making over' of Mount Rushmore to resemble America's Founding Fathers constituted 'the ultimate colonisation of nature by culture … a distinctly masculine obsession (expressing) physicality, materiality and empirical externality,… a rhetoric of humanity's uncontested possession of nature. It would be comforting to think that, although Uluru has become the focus of nationalist myths in Australia, to date it has not been incised to represent Australia's 'Great Men' - comforting that is, if it were not for the recognition that if Australia had had the resources available to America in the 1920s a transmogrified Captain Cook and a flinty Governor Phillip may have been eyeballing the red heart of Australia for the greater part of a century. My dissertation traces the conscious and unconscious construction of gender in Australian society in the nineteenth century as it was constructed through the apprehension of things which were associated with 'nature' -plants, animals, landscape, 'the bush', Aborigines, women. The most important metaphor in this construction was that of women as flowers; a metaphor which, in seeking to sacralise 'beauty' in women and nature, increasingly externalised women and the female principle and divorced them from their rootedness in the earth - the 'earth' of 'nature', and the 'earth' of men's and women's deeper physical and psychological needs. This had the consequence of a return of the repressed in the form of negative constructions of women, 'femininity'" and the land which surfaced in Australia, as it did in most other parts of the Western World, late in the nineteenth century. What I attempt to show in this dissertation is that a negative construction of women and the female principle was inextricably implicated in the accelerating development of a capitalist consumer society which fetishised the surface appearance of easily reproducible images of denatured objects. In the nineteenth century society denatured women along with much else as it turned from the worship of God and ‘nature' to the specularisation of endlessly proliferating images emptied of meaning; of spirituality. An increasing fascination with the appearance of things served to camouflage patriarchal assumptions which lopsidedly associated women with a 'flowerlike' femininity of passive receptivity (or a ‘mad' lasciviousness) and men with a 'masculinity' of aggressive achievement - and awarded social power and prestige to the latter. The psychological explanation which underlies this thesis and unites its disparate elements is that of Julia Kristeva who believed that in the nineteenth century fear of loss of the Christian 'saving' mother - the Mother of God - led to an intensification of emotional investment among men and women in the pre-oedipal all-powerful 'phallic' mother who is thought to stand between the individual and 'the void of nothingness'.
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Whitehead, Kay. "Women's 'life-work' : teachers in South Australia, 1836-1906 /." Title page, abstract and contents only, 1996. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phw592.pdf.
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Skyes, Gillian E. "The new woman in the new world : fin-de-siècle writing and feminism in Australia." Phd thesis, Faculty of Arts, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16473.
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Brooklyn, Bridget. "Something old, something new : divorce and divorce law in South Australia, 1859-1918." Title page, contents and summary only, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phb872.pdf.
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Tsunematsu, Naomi 1966. "Japanese women's wartime patriotic organizations and postwar memoirs: Reality and recollection." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278444.
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Japanese women have often described themselves as passive "victims" of the Pacific War, and in their wartime memoirs (senso taikenki) they have related their suffering in the hope of preventing future wars. However, when we closely examine Japanese women' s activities and beliefs during the war, we find that women were not necessarily completely detached from wartime efforts. Many women actively and even enthusiastically cooperated with the state. Even if they did not actively fight on the battlefield and kill people on foreign soil, many women were part of the total war structure, helping to stir up the patriotism that drove Japanese to fight in the war. This thesis looks at how Japanese women, through patriotic women' s organizations, were involved in the Pacific War, and what they actually believed during the war, in contrast with their recollections of the war in their senso taikenki.
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Miguda, Edith Atieno. "International catalyst and women's parliamentary recruitment : a comparative study of Kenya and Australia 1963-2002 /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2004. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phm6362.pdf.
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Foley, Meredith Anne. "The women's movement in New South Wales and Victoria, 1918-1938." Phd thesis, Department of History, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/6084.
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Brankovich, Jasmina. "Burning down the house? : feminism, politics and women's policy in Western Australia, 1972-1998." University of Western Australia. School of Humanities, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0122.
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This thesis examines the constraints and options inherent in placing feminist demands on the state, the limits of such interventions, and the subjective, intimate understandings of feminism among agents who have aimed to change the state from within. First, I describe the central element of a
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Lu, Hui-tzu. "Cultivation of virtue: Women's practices and gender issuesduring the Song era (960-1279)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280429.
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Idealized presentations of female behavior prescribed by Ban Zhao (A.D. 45-120) and later male Confucians defined women in the role of inner helpers, thus confining them to the domestic arena. Close scrutiny of data however reveals a cluster of new values for Song women evident through personal cultivation and devotional practices both "within" and "without" the inner sphere. This dissertation offers a preliminary investigation of Song women's practices such as bodily and spiritual cultivations as well as their devotional and philanthropic activities. It examines why and how these specific inner and outer practices evolved into regnant womanly practices that ultimately becarne exemplary behaviors during the Song period. Through the lens of female daily practices, this study also investigates the diverse interactions between genders in the Song era. The first part of this dissertation explores Song women's bodily and spiritual observances within the inner quarters. Song women performed bodily cultivations through various forms of ascetic behaviors, including fasting, vegetarianism, the abstinence from slaughtering living beings, and seclusion in their daily lives, which can be deemed gendered practices. Spiritual cultivation through religious practices such as sutra recitation and other related observances functioned not only as accessible avenues of female spiritual pursuits, but also served as alternative conduits for Song women's literary aspirations. Part Two first discusses the gender discourse and the tension between the norms and historical reality during the Song. The last two chapters examine Song women's practices such as their religious offerings and involvement in community public works and philanthropy outside the domestic realm. In contrast to women's inner practices, women's outer sphere endeavors put their personal cultivation and volition into practice, and also extended their influential financial autonomy beyond the domestic arena into the greater society. This study concludes that despite deviations from conventional Confucian values, these inner and outer womanly practices were perceived as paragons of female virtues. Lastly, it suggests a negotiated process in the workings of gender in the Song culture.
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Anderson, Emma Kate School of English UNSW. "Representations of female sexuality in chick-lit texts and reading Anais Nin on the train." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of English, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/27319.
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My critical essay uses Foucault???s theory of discursive formation to chart the emergence of the figure of the single modern woman as she is created by the various discourses surrounding her. It argues that representations of the single modern woman continue a tradition of perceiving the female body as a source of social anxiety. The project explores ???chick-lit??? as a site within the discursive formation from which the single modern woman emerges as a paradoxical figure; the paradoxes fundamentally linked to her sexuality. This essay, then, essentially seeks to investigate representations of female sexuality within chick-lit, exposing for scrutiny the paradoxes inherent in and around the figure of the single modern woman. My fictional piece is a work of erotica. It is divided into four sections: The Reader, The Writer, The Muse and The Critic. Essentially it explores the relationships between female sexuality and literature; between female sexuality and feminist, post-feminist and patriarchal values and between literature and issues of truth, perspective and representation. The two works complement each other to illuminate the paradox of female sexuality: one from a theoretical perspective and the other from a fictional perspective. The critical work focuses on female sexuality and its relationship to, and development within, the current social context. Chick-lit, as a new and immensely popular genre of fiction which holistically explores the lives of single modern women was useful for examining the relationship between the sexual persona of the single modern woman and society. The fiction is concerned with a narrower focus: specifically the sexual life of the single modern woman. Through the creative process, it became apparent that working within the genre of ???erotica??? would be not only more useful than working within chick-lit, but more powerful in exploring the themes I was interested in. The creative work draws on numerous points of interest raised in the critical work from, for example, the grander notions of the relationship between object and discourse ??? in this case female sexuality and literature ??? and the female body as a source of social fascination and anxiety to finer observations such as what it means to have sex ???like a man.??? In essence, the creative work seeks to examine the many faces of the single modern woman as a sexual being and to illuminate, on an intimate level, the many conflicts between and surrounding those faces and to suggest that while paradox remains in female sexual ideology, the single modern woman will remain suspended in a kind of sexual paralysis.
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Ticehurst, Kathryn Louise. "Interactions in the field: three women anthropologists in Aboriginal communities in south-east Australia, 1944-1963." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28745.
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Between 1944 and 1963, three young white women set out to conduct anthropological field work in Aboriginal communities in towns and cities in south-eastern Australia. Marie Reay visited many towns across western New South Wales from 1944 to 1948, Ruth Fink stayed for four months at Brewarrina Mission in 1954 and Diane Barwick sought out Aboriginal people in Melbourne and surrounding country towns between 1960 and 1963. This thesis examines their field notes to describe and analyse their interactions with the people they met during their field work: Aboriginal people, white townspeople, station managers and matrons, school teachers, police sergeants, religious ministers, AWB welfare officers, welfare workers, political activists and various white people who took an interest in Aboriginal people. These interactions were shaped by the social history of the places they visited, by racial segregation in country towns, by the interventions of the AWB into Aboriginal communities and the historical and political consciousness of Aboriginal people. Reading these field notes in the light of the history of these communities makes it possible to examine the complex dynamics that produced these encounters. Reading them against the grain, the interactions themselves become sources of information about this social history, about the communities this history had produced, and the different perspectives of people who lived in them. The power relations which structured field work, and the frequent experience of field work as a kind of intrusion related to the interventions of social welfare, makes it especially important to read the sources through the lens of social history. The field notes reveal the ongoing dynamics of interaction between different groups and individuals: the AWB, white and Aboriginal people, and anthropologists. They shed light on their different perspectives and their conflicts about expertise. Aboriginal people raised issues they had with the AWB and with local and legal discrimination; their analysis was grounded in a strong historical and political consciousness. These understandings of history differed from the historical narratives that shaped anthropological discourse of the time.
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au, debbiehindley@westnet com, and Deborah Hindley. "In the Outer - Not on the Outer: Women and Australian Rules Football." Murdoch University, 2006. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20060913.85805.
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This thesis identifies, examines and probes the nature of womens involvement in Australian Rules Football. Rather than have a single theoretical underpinning, an interdisciplinary approach, albeit with a feminist perspective, was applied because of the broad scope of the study. Australian Rules Football is an institution that can transcend class, race, and gender. It is also a multi-billion dollar industry. The game traces its origins back to 1858 and claims influences from rugby and an Aboriginal game called marn-grook. While it is played mainly by men, exclusively at league level, interest and involvement is not limited by gender.
Academics and administrators have frequently written off womens involvement with football. Even though scholarly interest in both sport and feminism has grown since the 1970s, little significant work has been undertaken to examine womens interaction with Australian Rules Football. Leading Australian feminist Anne Summers rejected the notion that women could find anything of value in football apart from following players as devoted wives, mothers, girlfriends or groupies. Through investigation of monographs and edited collections, I reveal that myriad scholars, feminists and historians have missed the point of sporting scholarship: many women enjoy involvement with football, they understand the game and its strategies and value being part of the football community in diverse and evolving capacities.
The original contribution to knowledge in this doctorate is to demonstrate that while women have had a central role in the development and maintenance of Australian Rules Football since the game was founded in colonial times, their contribution has gone unacknowledged by historians and administrators. My thesis places on record those omissions. Particularly, I highlight the lack of acknowledgement and respect for the work of a woman who authored a comprehensive and seminal social history written on the game. This is the archetypal example of how women, in many roles both professional and personal have been marginalized, despite playing pivotal roles with Australian Rules Football. The original contribution contained in these pages tracks Australian gender relations through the social institution of Australian Rules Football. To create both space and strategies for the revaluation of women in football history, a new model of female fandom is offered. The testimony of the women included is weighty in numbers and pithy in content. The scale of interviews represents diversity in age, class, ethnicity, regionality and role or function with football. Superficially it may appear that women can be placed in taxonomy. Womens involvement with Australian Rules Football is complex and their involvement enmeshes in the many facets and spheres of the game.
The completion of this thesis follows the long overdue appointment of the A.F.L.s first female commissioner, Samantha Mostyn, in June 2005. Without disrespecting Mostyn, this was a tokenistic cultural shift by adding a commissioner to the existing eight males with the goal of adding further business expertise, not a new insight or strategic cultural intervention. It also comes at a time when the Australian Football Leagues has a new challenge to address, with the growing interest and participation in Association Football in Australia after the qualification for the 2006 World Cup. At this moment of change and contestation, Womens Australian Rules competitions are impoverished through lack of structural and financial support while womens Association Football, both in Australia and internationally, is flourishing.
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Thompson, Susannah Ruth. "Birth pains : changing understandings of miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal death in Australia in the Twentieth Century." University of Western Australia. School of Humanities, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0150.
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Feminist and social historians have long been interested in that particularly female ability to become pregnant and bear children. A significant body of historiography has challenged the notion that pregnancy and childbirth considered to be the acceptable and 'appropriate' roles for women for most of the twentieth century in Australia - have always been welcomed, rewarding and always fulfilling events in women's lives. Several historians have also begun the process of enlarging our knowledge of the changing cultural attitudes towards bereavement in Australia and the eschewing of the public expression of sorrow following the two World Wars; a significant contribution to scholarship which underscores the changing attitudes towards perinatal loss. It is estimated that one in four women lose a pregnancy to miscarriage, and two in one hundred late pregnancies result in stillbirth in contemporary Australia. Miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal death are today considered by psychologists and social workers, amongst others, as potentially significant events in many women's lives, yet have received little or passing attention in historical scholarship concerned with pregnancy and motherhood. As such, this study focuses on pregnancy loss: the meaning it has been given by various groups at different times in Australia's past, and how some Australian women have made sense of their own experience of miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death within particular social and historical contexts. Pregnancy loss has been understood in a range of ways by different groups over the past 100 years. At the beginning of the twentieth century, when alarm was mounting over the declining birth rate, pregnancy loss was termed 'foetal wastage' by eugenicists and medical practitioners, and was seen in abstract terms as the loss of necessary future Australian citizens. By the 1970s, however, with the advent of support groups such as SANDS (Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Support) miscarriage and stillbirth were increasingly seen as the devastating loss of an individual baby, while the mother was seen as someone in need of emotional and other support. With the advent of new prenatal screening technologies in the late twentieth century, there has been a return of the idea of maternal responsibility for producing a 'successful' outcome. This project seeks to critically examines the wide range of socially constructed meanings of pregnancy loss and interrogate the arguments of those groups, such as the medical profession, religious and support groups, participating in these constructions. It will build on existing histories of motherhood, childbirth and pregnancy in Australia and, therefore, also the history of Australian women.
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Parker, Pauline Frances, and paulinefparker@gmail com. "Girls, Empowerment and Education: a History of the Mac. Robertson Girls' High School 1905-2005." RMIT University. Global Studies, Social Science and Planning, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080516.164340.
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Despite the considerable significance of publicly funded education in the making of Australian society, state school histories are few in number. In comparison, most corporate and private schools have cemented their sense of community and tradition through full-length publications. This history attempts to redress this imbalance. It is an important social history because this school, Mac.Robertson Girls' High School can trace its origins back to 1905, to the very beginnings of state secondary education when the Melbourne Continuation School (MCS), later Melbourne High School (MHS) and Melbourne Girls' high School (MGHS) was established. Since it is now recognised that there are substantial state, regional and other differences between schools and their local communities, studies of individual schools are needed to underpin more general overviews of particular issues. This history, then, has wider significance: it traces strands of the development of girls' education in Victoria, thus examining the significance and dynamics of single-sex schooling, the education of girls more generally, and, importantly, girls' own experiences (and memories of experiences) of secondary schooling, as well as the meaning they made of those experiences. 'Girls, Education and Empowerment: A History of The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School 1905-2005', departs from traditional models of school history writing that tend to focus on the decision-makers and bureaucrats in education as well as documenting the most 'successful' former students who have made their mark in the world. Drawing on numerous narrative sources and documentary evidence, this history is organised thematically to contextualise and examine what is was like, and meant, to be a girl at this school (Melbourne Continuation School 1905-12; Melbourne High School 1912-27; Melbourne Girls' High School 1927-34, and Mac.Robertson Girls' High School from 1934) during a century of immense social, economic, political and educational change.
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Volz, Kirsty. "Architect and Ceramist : Nell McCredie's Architectural Works." Thesis, University of Queensland, 2021. https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:b58cd59.
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Nellie (Nell) McCredie (1901-1968) worked as both an architect and a ceramist. She was enrolled in the second cohort of the Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Sydney between 1919 and 1923. However, after graduating, McCredie was unable to find employment in architecture; instead, she found work in various drafting roles in Sydney. In her search for full-time employment in architecture, she moved to Cairns in July 1925 and spent four months working for a small architectural firm, Lawrence and Lordan.[1] In November 1925, McCredie moved to Brisbane and joined the Queensland Government’s State Advances Corporation in the Workers Dwelling Board (WDB). She stayed there for three years designing affordable homes, funded by government-backed loans, for working and middle class families. During this time, she designed at least one house as a private commission, outside of her employment with the WDB. While in Brisbane, McCredie started taking classes in ceramics with LJ Harvey at the Central Technical College.[2]McCredie returned to Sydney in 1929 at the beginning of the Great Depression. Upon returning home, she undertook further training in ceramics, learning to throw pottery on a wheel.[3] What started as a hobby transformed into McCredie’s full-time career throughout the 1930s.[4] By 1932 she had started her own ceramics teaching and production business based out of a studio on George Street in Sydney’s CBD. McCredie also continued to practice architecture independently in Sydney during the 1930s and 1940s. One of her most significant architectural works in Sydney was her design for a purpose-built ceramics studio in Epping in 1936. She operated her ceramics business from Epping with her brother Robert until she died in 1968.[5]Existing histories on McCredie’s career have focused on her ceramics rather than her architecture. The lack of attention paid to McCredie’s architecture is not because her work was insubstantial but because of the complexities in attributing authorship by architects to their buildings.[6] This thesis details McCredie’s career in architecture for the first time, which has been made possible by the discovery of her architectural archive.
McCredie’s architectural archive provides a rare opportunity to discuss the built work of one of Australia’s early women architects. This research has led to the identification of 12 previously undiscovered houses by McCredie, including seven houses in Queensland and five in Sydney’s northern suburbs. Of these 12, 10 are extant. Prior to this research, only one of her houses had been identified, Uanda (1928) in the Brisbane suburb of Wilston. It was only discovered after an application to demolish the house was submitted to Brisbane City Council in 1998. The council sought an interim heritage protection order for the house, which the then owners of Uanda disputed in the Queensland Land and Environment Court in 1999. Fortunately, the decision to protect Uanda was upheld, and it was included on the Queensland Heritage Register in 2000. The court case over the heritage listing of Uanda is an important departure point for this thesis, especially in terms of how the aesthetic merits of the house were debated between heritage expert Richard Allom and historian Judith McKay.[7]
The discussion of McCredie’s architectural works presented in this thesis also provides new insights into the careers of the architects she worked alongside. McCredie was among the first identifiable cohort of Australian women in architecture, who as Julie Willis wrote, emerged in earnest in the 1920s.[8] This study builds on existing research on Australia’s early women architects completed by Willis, McKay and Bronwyn Hanna. In particular, it provides new details about the careers of Australian interwar women architects, Ursula Jones, Eunice Slaughter, Dorothy Brennan, Lorna Lukin, Marjorie Hudson, Rosina Edmunds and Heather Sutherland. Additionally, McCredie’s archive also contributes to existing histories about the institutions that she was involved with throughout her career, including new findings into the histories of the WDB and the curriculum delivered into Australia’s first Bachelor of Architecture degree at the University of Sydney.
[1] Nell McCredie Employment Statement, Department of Public Works, 1928, Queensland State Archives document: WOR/A 1194 Department of Public Works Administration series files Brisbane, Australia
[2] Judith McKay, “Designing women: pioneer architects”. Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, Vol. 20, No. 5, (Feb 2008): 174-175.
[3] Robert McCredie, “McCredie Pottery: 1922-1974” McCredie Ceramics Archive, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia, 1
[4] “Where Pottery is Made By Hand: Sydney Girl’s Fascinating Hobby” The Sydney Morning Herald 20 October, 1936: 5
[5] Robert McCredie, “McCredie Pottery: 1922-1974,” 6
[6] Julie Willis, Invisible Contributions: The PRobertlem of History and Women Architects, Architectural Theory Review, 3:2, (1998): 61
[7] Michel v. Brisbane City Council, Qpelr 374, 1999
[8] Julie Willis, Aptitude and Capacity: Published Views of the Australian Woman Architect, Architectural Theory Review, 17:2-3, (2012): 323
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Reid, Helen M. J. "Age of transition : a study of South Australian private girls' schools 1875-1925 /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1996. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phr3545.pdf.
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Rukavina, Alison Jane. "Cultural Darwinism and the literary canon, a comparative study of Susanna Moodie's Roughing it in the Bush and Caroline Leakey's The broad arrow." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ61491.pdf.
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Jaffer, Sadaf. "Ismat Chughtai, Progressive Literature and Formations of the Indo-Muslim Secular, 1911-1991." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:23845441.
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This dissertation examines the life, work, and contexts of noted Urdu writer and Indian cultural critic Ismat Chughtai (1911-1991). By engaging in readings of Chughtai’s texts and contexts, this dissertation presents the first study of its kind, examining Indian secular thought through the lens of an Urdu literary figure. As such, this dissertation offers new perspectives on intersections between popular culture and political and religious thought in modern India through the lens of a celebrated literary figure whose legacy continues to be invoked.
I argue that, at its core, Chughtai’s critique of society hinged upon the equality (barābarī) of all Indians. The primacy of “humanity” (insāniyat) over other identities was the keystone of her formation of the secular, and has roots in a tradition that can be termed Islamicate humanism. In the first chapter, “Sacred Duty: Ismat Chughtai’s Cosmopolitan Justice between Islam and the Secular,” I argue that, by rejecting the inferior status of women within Muslim legal codes, Chughtai pursued what she saw as moral equality to a more radical degree than the postcolonial Indian state, which enshrined separate codes of personal law based on religious community. Ultimately, the secular ideals of equality, autonomy and human dignity were the mainstays of her thought, without regard to whether these were pursued through “Islamic” means. In the next chapter, “The Personal is Political: Economic and Sexual Progress in Modern India,” I argue that Chughtai, unlike other members of the Progressive Writers’ Movement, emphasized the link between hierarchical economic injustice and limitations on autonomous sexual choice. In the third chapter, “Reform, Education, and Woman as Subject,” I argue that in her writing, particularly the novel Ṭeṛhī Lakīr, Chughtai deployed narratives of education as foundational to the formation of an emancipated girl, one who liberates herself by rejecting the “old rules” (purānī qānūn). The fourth chapter, “The Many Lives of Urdu: Language, Progressive Literature and Nostalgia,” explores the fate of the Urdu language and Chughtai’s legacy in independent India. Ultimately, this project calls into question assumptions regarding what types of textual and human subjects are considered representatives of “Indo-Muslim Culture” in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
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Wilms, Sabine. "The female body in medieval China. A translation and interpretation of the "Women's Recipes" in Sun Simiao's "Beiji qianjinyaofang"." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280225.
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This dissertation investigates the medical treatment of the female body in medieval China based on the women-related sections of a pivotal work in the history of Chinese medicine, the second through fourth scrolls of Sun Simiao's Beiji qianjin yaofang (completed ca. 652 C.E.). This text provides central evidence for the emergence of gynecology as a separate medical specialty in medieval China and reflects the highest level of elite medical knowledge regarding women at its time. It is the first text in the Chinese medical tradition to clearly define the parameters based on which the gender-specific treatment of the female body was conceptualized in the medical practice of the literati tradition. Its comprehensive nature shows that women's medical treatment in the seventh century was performed by and contested between large variety of practitioners, including literate male elites, professional midwives, other female members of the household or community, and religious specialists. The core of this study consists of an annotated translation of this text, covering the topics of fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, postpartum recovery, supplementing and boosting, menstrual problems, vaginal discharge, and miscellaneous conditions. The translation is preceded by an introduction which discusses the author and his work, then summarizes and explains the contents of my text, and lastly indicates topics for future research and potential interpretation in the areas of women's health in general, reproduction, physiology, and issues of the gendered body. Lastly, this study includes two indeces for materia medica and for symptoms, syndromes, and diseases.
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Cully, Eavan. "Nationalism, feminism, and martial valor: rewriting biographies of women in «Nüzi shijie» (1904-1907)." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32363.
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This thesis examines images of martial women as they were produced in the biography column of the late Qing journal Nüzi shijie (NZSJ; 1904-1907). By examining the historiographic implications of revised women's biographies, I will show the extent to which martial women were written as ideal citizens at the dawn of the twentieth-century. In the first chapter I place NZSJ in its historical context by examining the journal's goals as seen in two editorials from the inaugural issue. The second and third chapters focus on biographies of individual women warriors which will be read against their original stories in verse and prose. Through these comparisons, I aim to demonstrate how these "transgressive women" were written as normative ideals of martial citizens that would appeal to men and women alike.Cette thèse examine les images de femmes martiales reproduites dans la rubrique biographique du journal Nüzi shijie (NZSJ; 1904-1907) publiée à la fin de la dynastie Qing. En examinant les implications historiographiques des biographies révisées des femmes, j'essai de démontrer l'importance de la façon dont les femmes martiales étaient décrites come citoyennes idéales à l'aube du vingtième siècle. A travers une exploration des objectifs posés par le journal et mis en évidence dans deux éditoriaux extraits du premier numéro du journal, mon premier chapitre essaie de placer le NZSJ dans sa propre contexte historique. Le deuxième et le troisième chapitres se concentrent sur les biographies individuelles des femmes guerrières, lesquelles sont juxtaposés aux histories originales écrites sous forme de vers et prose. A travers ces juxtapositions, mon projet démontre la façon dont ces "femmes transgressives" illustraient l'idéal normatif du citoyen martiale, lequel attirait les hommes ainsi que les femmes.
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Baird, Julia Woodlands. "Housewife superstars : female politicians and the Australian print media, 1970-1990." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18048.
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This thesis focuses on the relationship between female politicians and the press in Australia - how they were interviewed and reported on, and how their public image was shaped, between 1970 and 1990. Making use of frame analysis, it examines the way the media framed women elected to parliament, and reveals a pattern of coverage which consistently portrayed women as outsiders in a male political realm. However, it also reveals that the coverage changed over time. There were four major frames through which female politicians were viewed. The ‘iron lady’ frame involved a search for Australia’s first woman Prime Minister, and compared femininity to the exercise of power or authority. The ‘housewife’ frame focused on women politician’s domestic responsibilities, and sprang from an anxiety about the impact of women’s participation in the public sphere on the private sphere. The ‘body’ frame drew attention to women’s weight, appearance and sex lives, often to either explain or query their political success. Finally, the ‘feminist’ frame centered on questions which asked women MPs to define themselves as feminists, and sought their opinions only on narrowly defined women’s issues. Frames were determined by the hook, the headline, and the choice of photograph as well as the narrative of newspaper articles, and repetition of descriptive words. Each frame evolved over time, and each has been shaped by female politician’s criticisms of their treatment at the hands of the press. This thesis shows the previously unexamined relationship between female politicians and the Australian print media is not static or unilateral, but symbiotic, dialogic and constantly changing. As a forum for a broader societal debate about the role of women, the major metropolitan newspapers sustained and shaped, but also undermined a separate spheres ideology. The print media was not monolithic, and competing viewpoints were aired in editorials, articles, comment and opinion pieces. Female journalists in particular played a critical role in introducing and sustaining a debate about a gender bias in political reporting, in the press. I argue analyses must incorporate the agency of women politicians in order to understand the complexities of the women’s responses and resistance to their portrayal as ‘housewife superstars’ in the press, as well as the possibilities for change.
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Brien, Donna Lee. "The case of Mary Dean : sex, poisoning and gender relations in Australia." Queensland University of Technology, 2003. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16340/.
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The genre of biography is, by nature, imprecise and limited. Real lives are lived synchronously and diversely; they do not divide spontaneously into chapters, subjects or themes. All biographers construct stories, in the process forcing the disordered complexity of an actual life into a neat literary form. This doctoral submission comprises a book length creative work, Poisoned: The Trials of Mary Dean, and a reflective written component on that creative work, Writing Fictionalised Biography. Poisoned is a biography of Mary Dean, who, although repeatedly poisoned by her husband at the end of the nineteenth century, did not die. This biography, presented in the form of a first-person memoir, is based closely on historical evidence and is supported with discursive notes and a select bibliography. The reflective written component, Writing Fictionalised Biography, outlines the process and challenges of writing a biography when the source material available is inadequate and unreliable. In writing Poisoned my genre solution has been fictionalised biography - biography which is historically diligent while utilising fictional writing strategies and incorporating fictional passages. This written component reflectively discusses how I arrived at that solution. It includes discussion of the sources I utilised in writing Poisoned, including the limitations of trial transcripts and other court records as biographical evidence; useful precursors to the form; the process wherein I located both a form for my fictionalised biography and a voice for my biographical subject; possible models I considered; how I distinguished established fact from speculative supposition in the text; as well as some of the ambivalences and ethical concerns such a narrative process implies.
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Walker, Carole A. "Caroline Chisholm, 1808-1877: ordinary woman - extraordinary life, impossible category." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2001. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/8035.
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The purpose of this thesis is to look at the motivations behind the life and work of Caroline Chisholm, nee Jones, 1808-1877, and to ascertain why British historians have chosen to ignore her contribution to the nineteenth century emigration movement, while attending closely to such women as Nightingale for example. The Introduction to the thesis discusses the difficulties of writing a biography of a nineteenth century woman, who lived at the threshold of modernity, from the perspective of the twenty-first century, in the period identified as late modernity or postmodernity. The critical issues of writing a historical biography are explored. Chapter Two continues the debate in relation to the Sources, Methods and Problems that have been met with in writing the thesis. Chapters Three to Seven consider Chisholm's life and work in the more conventional narrative format, detailing where new evidence has been found. By showing where misinformation and errors have arisen in earlier biographies that have been perpetuated by subsequent biographies, they give specificity to the debate discussed in the Introduction. Chapters Eight to Ten discuss, in far greater depth than a conventional narrative format allows, the relevant political, religious and social influences which shaped and influenced Chisholm's life, and which facilitate an understanding of her motivation and character.
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Stevenson, Toner Marie. "Measuring the stars and observing the less visible: Australia’s participation in the Astrographic Catalogue and Carte du Ciel." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15762.
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Australia’s 1887 decision to participate in a major international astronomical project to produce an Astrographic (Star) Catalogue and Carte du Ciel (Chart of the Sky) ultimately involved Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth observatories. Participation in this project promised to bring international recognition of Australia’s capability in astronomy and access to the latest photographic technology and methods, within a network comprised of leading astronomers and observatories from around the globe. This was not a straightforward process; obtaining the resources required to successfully participate was fraught in terms of seeking support from governments that did not necessarily understand the significance of the projects, the lack of an appropriately trained workforce, and the sheer volume of work to catalogue the star-rich sky of the Southern Hemisphere. The challenges of participating in major and extensive international projects, during a period when astronomy within Australia wavered between state and federal control, were enormous. The techniques and technologies were not consolidated and often difficult to obtain, due to the impact of two world wars. Recessions and a major depression, along with colonial attitudes to science, made the resources required for progress at times unaffordable within meagre State Observatory budgets. The participating observatories have been examined through archival research to reveal not only the significance of this star catalogue to the development of astronomy in Australia, but the momentous and unacknowledged contribution made by women in its production. I have investigated the participation of seven women in the projects through in-depth interviews and primary sources, including log books of star positions and magnitudes and observation log books not previously recognised as their work. This thesis reveals the Astrographic Catalogue as pivotal to the introduction of women into paid astronomical work in Australia.«br /» The Astrographic Catalogue and Carte du Ciel are interrogated as products of colonialist ambitions to chart territory. Actor–network theory, centres of calculation and circulation models developed by sociology of science theorists, including Bruno Latour and Michel Callon, have been applied to analyse the control over the participating state observatories by colonial astronomy networks. My research has uncovered evidence of the interference of the Colonial Secretaries and Astronomers Royal, and the sometimes catastrophic impact of economic, social and political upheavals. This thesis argues that modernist ideals of automation and global standardisation provided momentum for the techniques of observation to change, and the eye of the astronomer was replaced by the eye of the human star measurer, predominantly women, who became the new point of contention at which individual variation occurred. I reveal that the involvement of women in Australia on the Astrographic Catalogue and Carte du Ciel was of greater significance than previously recognised; in addition, whilst they were restricted due to their gender, these women had agency in the scientific practice, workplace behaviour and employment conditions within the observatory. Furthermore, the creation of sex-specific roles in astronomy developed through the labour requirements of the large data sets for the Astrographic Catalogue, and the historical invisibility of women’s work in science, have had contemporary consequences for the status and participation of women in astronomy.
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Hanna, Bronwyn Planning UNSW. "Absence and presence: a historiography of early women architects in New South Wales." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Planning, 2000. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/18217.
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Women architects are effectively absent from architectural history in Australia. Consulting first the archival record, this thesis establishes the presence of 230 women architects qualified and/or practising in NSW between 1900 and 1960. It then analyses some of these early women architects' achievements and difficulties in the profession, drawing on interviews with 70 practitioners or their friends and family. Finally it offers brief biographical accounts of eight leading early women architects, arguing that their achievements deserve more widespread historical attention in an adjusted canon of architectural merit. There are also 152 illustrations evidencing their design contributions. Thus the research draws on quantitative, qualitative, biographical and visual modes of representation in establishing a historical presence for these early women architects. The thesis forms part of the widespread political project of feminist historical recovery of women forebears, while also interrogating the ends and means of such historiography. The various threads describing women's absence and presence in the architectural profession are woven together throughout the thesis using three feminist approaches which sometimes harmonise and sometimes debate with each other. Described as "liberal feminism", "socialist feminism" and "postmodern feminism", they each put into play distinct patterns of questioning, method and interpretation, but all analyse historiography as a strategy for understanding society and effecting social change.
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Spear, Peta. "Libertine : a novel and A writer's reflection : the Libertine dynamic: existential erotic and apocalyptic Gothic." Thesis, View thesis, 1998. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/26115.
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This thesis comprises two works: a novel ‘Libertine’ and a monograph ‘A writer’s reflection’. ‘Libertine’contemplates the eroticising and brutalising of being, and sex as currency, as need and as sacrament. It is set in a city where war is the norm, nightmare the standard, and ancient deities are called upon to witness the new order of killing technologies. The story is narrated by a woman chosen to be the consort of the General, a despostic war leader who believes that he has been chosen by the goddess Kali. She journeys deep into a horror which exists not only around her, but also within her. ‘Libertine’, by melding the erotic and the Gothic, tells the story of a woman enacting the role cast for her in the complex theatres of war. ‘A writer’s reflection’ discusses the themes of the novel, introducing the notion of existential erotica. The existential experience particular to the expression of the erotic being is discussed, and the dilemma which arises from a self yearning to merge ecstatically with an/other in order to obtain a heightened or differently valued self. This theme is elaborated in ‘Libertine’ with regard to subjectivity and the broader issues of nausea, horror and choice, drawing on the conventions of Gothic literature and apocalyptic visioning. This visioning, as eroticised death worship, is found in a Sadian credo of cruelty, the tantric rituals of Kali devotion, and the annihilating erotic excess propounded by Bataille. The monograph illustrated that ‘Libertine’ is not a re-representation of these elements, but an original contribution to the literature of erotica.
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Dahl, Maxine Claire. "Air evacuation in war : the role of RAAF nurses undertaking air evacuation of casualties between 1943-1953." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/31883/1/Maxine_Dahl_Thesis.pdf.
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Air transportation of Australian casualties in World War II was initially carried out in air ambulances with an accompanying male medical orderly. By late 1943 with the war effort concentrated in the Pacific, Allied military authorities realised that air transport was needed to move the increasing numbers of casualties over longer distances. The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) became responsible for air evacuation of Australian casualties and established a formal medical air evacuation system with trained flight teams early in 1944.
Specialised Medical Air Evacuation Transport Units (MAETUs) were established whose sole responsibility was undertaking air evacuations of Australian casualties from the forward operational areas back to definitive medical care. Flight teams consisting of a RAAF nursing sister (registered nurse) and a medical orderly carried out the escort duties. These personnel had been specially trained in Australia for their role.
Post-WWII, the RAAF Nursing Service was demobilised with a limited number of nurses being retained for the Interim Air Force. Subsequently, those nurses were offered commissions in the Permanent Air Force. Some of the nurses who remained were air evacuation trained and carried out air evacuations both in Australia and as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan.
With the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950, Australia became responsible for the air evacuation of British Commonwealth casualties from Korea to Japan. With a re-organisation of the Australian forces as part of the British Commonwealth forces, RAAF nurses were posted to undertake air evacuation from Korea and back to Australia from Iwakuni, Japan. By 1952, a specialised casualty staging section was established in Seoul and staffed by RAAF nurses from Iwakuni on a rotation basis.
The development of the Australian air evacuation system and the role of the flight nurses are not well documented for the period 1943-1953. The aims of this research are three fold and include documenting the origins and development of the air evacuation system from 1943-1953; analysing and documenting the RAAF nurse’s role and exploring whether any influences or lessons remain valid today. A traditional historical methodology of narrative and then analysis was used to inform the flight nurse’s role within the totality of the social system. Evidence was based on primary data sources mainly held in Defence files, the Australian War Memorial or the National Archives of Australia. Interviews with 12 ex-RAAF nurses from both WWII and the Korean War were conducted to provide information where there were gaps in the primary data and to enable exploration of the flight nurses’ role and their contributions in war of the air evacuation of casualties.
Finally, this thesis highlights two lessons that remain valid today. The first is that interoperability of air evacuation systems with other nations is a force multiplier when resources are scarce or limited. Second, the pre-flight assessment of patients was essential and ensured that there were no deaths in-flight.
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Mayne, Patricia Anne. "A history of TAMAR (1996-2008) in relation to the Anglican Church of Australia in general and the Diocese of Sydney in particular. TAMAR (Towards A More Appropriate Response) was formed by a group of Sydney Anglican women to address the issue of sexual abuse in the Australian Anglican Church." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2016. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/eabcf422e231b2b679dae250ca2877917f8f111b144b5e0f343b2ca5a1e20c9c/35209611/Mayne_2016_A_history_of_tamar_in_relation_to.pdf.
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TAMAR (Towards A More Appropriate Response) was established in 1996 by a small group of Sydney Anglican women, many of whom belonged to the sexually abused community. These women through their experiences and led by their Christian spirituality, integrated with justice and mercy were compelled to address the issue of sexual abuse in the Anglican Church of Australia with particular reference to the Diocese of Sydney. Without power, authority and history these women were at the other end of the spectrum when compared with the Anglican Church of Australia...
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Trimingham, Jack Christine. "Kerever Park : a history of the experience of teachers and children in a Catholic girls' preparatory boarding school 1944-1965." Phd thesis, School of Social and Policy Studies in Education, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/6641.
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White, Deborah. "Masculine constructions : gender in twentieth-century architectural discourse : 'Gods', 'Gospels' and 'tall tales' in architecture." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phw5834.pdf.
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Includes 2 previously published journal articles by the author: Women in architecture: a personal reflection ; and, "Half the sky, but no room of her own", as appendices. Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-251) An examination of some texts influential in the discourse of Australian architecture in the twentieth century. Explores from a feminist standpoint the gendered nature of discourse in contemporary Western architecture from an Australian perspective. The starting point for the thesis was an examination of Australian architectual discourse in search of some explanation for the continuing low numbers of women practitioners in Australia. Hypothesizes that contemporary Western architecture is imbued with a pervasive and dominant masculinity and that this is deeply imbedded in its discursive constructions: the body housed by architecture is assume to be male, the mind which produces architecture is assumed to be masculine. Given the cultural location of Australian architecture as a marginal participant in the wider arena of contemporary Western / international discourses, focuses on writing about two iconic figues in Western architecture; Le Corbusier, of international reknown; and, Glenn Murcutt, of predominantly local significance.
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Jarrett, Jennifer Ann. "Catholic bodies a history of the training and daily life of three religious teaching orders in New South Wales, 1860 to 1930 /." Connect to full text, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5673.
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O'Sullivan, Therese Anne. "The relationship between glycemic intake and insulin resistance in older women." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/17814/1/Therese_Anne_O%27Sullivan_Thesis.pdf.
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Glycemic intake influences the rise in blood glucose concentration following consumption of a carbohydrate containing meal, known as the postprandial glycemic response. The glycemic response is a result of both the type and amount of carbohydrate foods consumed and is commonly measured as the glycemic index (GI) or glycemic load (GL), where the GI is a ranking in comparison to glucose and the GL is an absolute value encompassing both the GI and amount of carbohydrate consumed. Evidence from controlled trials in rat models suggests that glycemic intake has a role in development of insulin resistance, however trials and observational studies of humans have produced conflicting results. As insulin resistance is a precursor to type 2 diabetes mellitus, lifestyle factors that could prevent development of this condition have important public health implications. Previous observational studies have used food frequency questionnaires to assess usual diet, which could have resulted in a lack of precision in assessment of individual serve sizes, and have been limited to daily measures of glycemic intake. Daily measures do not take fluctuations in glycemic intake on a per meal basis into account, which may be a more relevant measure for investigation in relation to disease outcomes. This PhD research was conducted in a group of Brisbane women aged 42 to 81 years participating in the multidisciplinary Brisbane Longitudinal Assessment of Ageing in Women (LAW study). Older women may be at particular risk of insulin resistance due to age, hormonal changes, and increases in abdominal obesity associated with menopause, and the LAW study provided an ideal opportunity to study the relationship between diet and insulin resistance. Using the diet history tool, we aimed to assess the glycemic intake of the population and hypothesised that daily GI and daily GL would be significantly positively associated with increased odds of insulin resistant status. We also hypothesised that a new glycemic measure representing peaks in GL at different meals would be a stronger predictor of insulin resistant status than daily measures, and that a specially designed questionnaire would be an accurate and repeatable dietary tool for assessment of glycemic intake. To address these hypotheses, we conducted a series of studies. To assess glycemic intake, information on usual diet was obtained by detailed diet history interview and analysed using Foodworks and the Australian Food and Nutrient (AUSNUT) database, combined with a customised GI database. Mean ± SD intakes were 55.6 ± 4.4% for daily GI and 115 ± 25 for daily GL (n=470), with intake higher amoung younger participants. Bread was the largest contributor to intakes of daily GI and GL (17.1% and 20.8%, respectively), followed by fruit (15.5% and 14.2%, respectively). To determine whether daily GI and GL were significantly associated with insulin resistance, the homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA) was used to assess insulin resistant status. Daily GL was significantly higher in subjects who were insulin resistant compared to those who were not (134 ± 33 versus 114 ± 24 respectively, P<0.001) (n=329); the odds of subjects in the highest tertile of GL intake being insulin resistant were 12.7 times higher when compared with the lowest tertile of GL (95% CI 1.6-100.1, P=0.02). Daily GI was not significantly different in subjects who were insulin resistant compared to those who were not (56.0 ± 3.3% versus 55.7 ± 4.5%, P=0.69). To evaluate whether a new glycemic measure representing fluctuations in daily glycemic intake would be a stronger predictor of insulin resistant status than other glycemic intake measures, the GL peak score was developed to express in a single value the magnitude of GL peaks during an average day. Although a significant relationship was seen between insulin resistant status and GL peak score (Nagelkerke’s R2=0.568, P=0.039), other glycemic intake measures of daily GL (R2=0.671, P<0.001) and daily GL per megajoule (R2=0.674, P<0.001) were stronger predictors of insulin resistant status. To develop an accurate and repeatable self-administered tool for assessment of glycemic intake, two sub-samples of women (n=44 for the validation study and n=52 for the reproducibility study) completed a semi-quantitative questionnaire that contained 23 food groupings selected to include the top 100 carbohydrate foods consumed by the study population. While there were significant correlations between the glycemic intake questionnaire and the diet history for GL (r=0.54, P<0.01), carbohydrate (r=0.57, P<0.01) and GI (r=0.40, P<0.01), Bland-Altman plots showed an unacceptable difference between individual intakes in 34% of subjects for daily GL and carbohydrate, and 41% for daily GI. Reproducibility results showed significant correlations for daily GL (r=0.73, P<0.001), carbohydrate (r=0.76, P<0.001) and daily GI (r=0.64, P<0.001), but an unacceptable difference between individual intakes in 25% of subjects for daily GL and carbohydrate, and 27% for daily GI. In summary, our findings show that a significant association was observed between daily glycemic load and insulin resistant status in a group of older women, using a diet history interview to obtain precise estimation of individual carbohydrate intake. Both the type and quantity of carbohydrate are important to consider when investigating relationships between diet and insulin resistance, although our results suggest the association is more closely related to overall daily glycemic intake than individual meal intake variations. A dietary tool that permits precise estimation of carbohydrate intake is essential when evaluating possible associations between glycemic intake and individual risk of chronic diseases such as insulin resistance. Our results also suggest that studies using questionnaires to estimate glycemic intake should state degree of agreement as well as correlation coefficients when evaluating validity, as imprecise estimates of carbohydrate at an individual level may have contributed to the conflicting findings reported in previous studies.
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O'Sullivan, Therese Anne. "The relationship between glycemic intake and insulin resistance in older women." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/17814/.
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Glycemic intake influences the rise in blood glucose concentration following consumption of a carbohydrate containing meal, known as the postprandial glycemic response. The glycemic response is a result of both the type and amount of carbohydrate foods consumed and is commonly measured as the glycemic index (GI) or glycemic load (GL), where the GI is a ranking in comparison to glucose and the GL is an absolute value encompassing both the GI and amount of carbohydrate consumed. Evidence from controlled trials in rat models suggests that glycemic intake has a role in development of insulin resistance, however trials and observational studies of humans have produced conflicting results. As insulin resistance is a precursor to type 2 diabetes mellitus, lifestyle factors that could prevent development of this condition have important public health implications. Previous observational studies have used food frequency questionnaires to assess usual diet, which could have resulted in a lack of precision in assessment of individual serve sizes, and have been limited to daily measures of glycemic intake. Daily measures do not take fluctuations in glycemic intake on a per meal basis into account, which may be a more relevant measure for investigation in relation to disease outcomes. This PhD research was conducted in a group of Brisbane women aged 42 to 81 years participating in the multidisciplinary Brisbane Longitudinal Assessment of Ageing in Women (LAW study). Older women may be at particular risk of insulin resistance due to age, hormonal changes, and increases in abdominal obesity associated with menopause, and the LAW study provided an ideal opportunity to study the relationship between diet and insulin resistance. Using the diet history tool, we aimed to assess the glycemic intake of the population and hypothesised that daily GI and daily GL would be significantly positively associated with increased odds of insulin resistant status. We also hypothesised that a new glycemic measure representing peaks in GL at different meals would be a stronger predictor of insulin resistant status than daily measures, and that a specially designed questionnaire would be an accurate and repeatable dietary tool for assessment of glycemic intake. To address these hypotheses, we conducted a series of studies. To assess glycemic intake, information on usual diet was obtained by detailed diet history interview and analysed using Foodworks and the Australian Food and Nutrient (AUSNUT) database, combined with a customised GI database. Mean ± SD intakes were 55.6 ± 4.4% for daily GI and 115 ± 25 for daily GL (n=470), with intake higher amoung younger participants. Bread was the largest contributor to intakes of daily GI and GL (17.1% and 20.8%, respectively), followed by fruit (15.5% and 14.2%, respectively). To determine whether daily GI and GL were significantly associated with insulin resistance, the homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA) was used to assess insulin resistant status. Daily GL was significantly higher in subjects who were insulin resistant compared to those who were not (134 ± 33 versus 114 ± 24 respectively, P<0.001) (n=329); the odds of subjects in the highest tertile of GL intake being insulin resistant were 12.7 times higher when compared with the lowest tertile of GL (95% CI 1.6-100.1, P=0.02). Daily GI was not significantly different in subjects who were insulin resistant compared to those who were not (56.0 ± 3.3% versus 55.7 ± 4.5%, P=0.69). To evaluate whether a new glycemic measure representing fluctuations in daily glycemic intake would be a stronger predictor of insulin resistant status than other glycemic intake measures, the GL peak score was developed to express in a single value the magnitude of GL peaks during an average day. Although a significant relationship was seen between insulin resistant status and GL peak score (Nagelkerke’s R2=0.568, P=0.039), other glycemic intake measures of daily GL (R2=0.671, P<0.001) and daily GL per megajoule (R2=0.674, P<0.001) were stronger predictors of insulin resistant status. To develop an accurate and repeatable self-administered tool for assessment of glycemic intake, two sub-samples of women (n=44 for the validation study and n=52 for the reproducibility study) completed a semi-quantitative questionnaire that contained 23 food groupings selected to include the top 100 carbohydrate foods consumed by the study population. While there were significant correlations between the glycemic intake questionnaire and the diet history for GL (r=0.54, P<0.01), carbohydrate (r=0.57, P<0.01) and GI (r=0.40, P<0.01), Bland-Altman plots showed an unacceptable difference between individual intakes in 34% of subjects for daily GL and carbohydrate, and 41% for daily GI. Reproducibility results showed significant correlations for daily GL (r=0.73, P<0.001), carbohydrate (r=0.76, P<0.001) and daily GI (r=0.64, P<0.001), but an unacceptable difference between individual intakes in 25% of subjects for daily GL and carbohydrate, and 27% for daily GI. In summary, our findings show that a significant association was observed between daily glycemic load and insulin resistant status in a group of older women, using a diet history interview to obtain precise estimation of individual carbohydrate intake. Both the type and quantity of carbohydrate are important to consider when investigating relationships between diet and insulin resistance, although our results suggest the association is more closely related to overall daily glycemic intake than individual meal intake variations. A dietary tool that permits precise estimation of carbohydrate intake is essential when evaluating possible associations between glycemic intake and individual risk of chronic diseases such as insulin resistance. Our results also suggest that studies using questionnaires to estimate glycemic intake should state degree of agreement as well as correlation coefficients when evaluating validity, as imprecise estimates of carbohydrate at an individual level may have contributed to the conflicting findings reported in previous studies.
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Jarrett, Jennifer Ann. "Catholic bodies : a history of the training and daily life of three religious teaching orders in New South Wales, 1860 to 1930." Phd thesis, School of Policy and Curriculum Studies in Education, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5673.
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Baguley, Margaret Mary. "The deconstruction of domestic space." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1998. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/35896/1/35896_Baguley_1998.pdf.
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Introduction:
I find myself in the pantry, cleaning shelves, in the laundry, water slopping around my elbows, at the washing line, pegging clothes. I watch myself clean shelves, wash, peg clothes. These are the rhythms
that comfort. That postpone. (The Painted Woman, Sue Woolfe, p. 170)
As a marginalised group in Australian art history and society, women artists possess a valuable and vital craft tradition which inevitably influences all aspects of their arts practice. Installation art, which has its origins in the craft tradition, has only been
acknowledged in the art mainstream this decade; yet evolved in the home of the 1950s. The social policies of this era are well documented for their insistence on
women remaining in the home in order to achieve personal success in their lives. This cultural oppressiveness paradoxically resulted in a revolution in women's art in the environment to which they were confined. Women's creative energies were diverted and sublimated into the home, resulting in aesthetic statements of individuality in home decoration. As an art movement, women's installation art in the home provided the similar structures to formally recognised art schools in the mainstream, and include: informal networks and training (schools); matriarchs within the community
who were knowledgable in craft traditions and techniques and shared these with younger women (mentorships); visiting other homes and providing constructive
advice (critiques); and women's magazines and glory boxes (art journals and sketch books). A re-examination of this vital period in women's art history will reveal the
social policies and cultural influences which insidiously undermined women's art, which was based on craft traditions.
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(9790610), Carolyn Daniels. "Exploring Australian women's career transitions: A critical constructivist grounded theory study." Thesis, 2019. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Exploring_Australian_women_s_career_transitions_A_critical_constructivist_grounded_theory_study/13453955.
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Multiple factors impact women’s lives after they have transitioned through higher education and into the workforce, including the struggle to achieve a balance between paid work and unpaid care responsibilities. Despite changes in Australian social and cultural attitudes, career transitions remain difficult for many women in Australia. This thesis presents a qualitative, grounded theory study that explores how women in Australia navigate and experience career transitions; specifically, the transitions to higher education and the workforce which form the pathway to their careers.
Emerging from the interviews were two distinct groups of women. Group 1 comprised mature age students on entry to university and Group 2 women had transitioned directly from high school to university. The Group 1 women shared stories about the lack of family and partner support, of time and sleep deprivation, and for some, domestic violence, dominance, resistance and abandonment as they studied. Many of these women experienced an up to fivefold burden of time as they juggled work, care, study, domestic responsibilities, and small business management. Concurrently, many experienced ‘pressure’, ‘guilt’, ‘stress’, changed and broken relationships and financial insecurity. Despite this, higher education held the promise of future security.
Group 2 women invariably knew they would go to university, and were supported by their families. Those who married and later undertook further studies were supported by their husbands. For both groups, the university transition experience was influenced by varying degrees of support from families, partners, universities, social networks and relevant higher education and government policies. In the work transition experience however, it was the individual level of resilience required relative to available support that was the significant factor.
Initially, a constructivist grounded theory approach was adopted. However, emergent social justice issues arising during interviews and analysis prompted development of a new methodology incorporating a critical perspective. Exploring the integration of a critical perspective required reviewing and juxtaposing constructivist grounded theory with critical theory. The shared axiomatic elements of these paradigms made them commensurable, and adaption made possible the concurrent practice of both. Thus, merging critical theory with constructivist grounded theory resulted in the new methodology critical constructivist grounded theory. It follows the evolutionary path of qualitative interpretive work, addressing the need for a critical stance to expose social justice issues. At the heart of the new methodology is a systematic analysis method, critical colours, enabling examination of the social, political, cultural, economic, structural, gender and historical forces impacting Australian women’s lives. What is more, critical colours analysis processes are adaptable to other axiologically congruent methodologies.
Advanced coding methods identified the categories of Time Related Forces, Striving for Security, Transformation of Self and the construct of the Emergent Core Self. Theoretical integration of these categories and construct with critical colours analyses produced the critical constructivist grounded theory of Australian women’s career transitions. The grounded theory reveals the ideologies of neoliberalism, capitalism and patriarchy impose a restrictive framework to the ways in which women’s career transitions are experienced. The model illustrates that the more roles and responsibilities women assume, the greater the time and financial deficits they experience, the more support is required. The grounded theory crystallises women’s experiences as the cumulative effect of the forces of time, study, deprivations, the quest for security (financial and emotional), and the transformative power of learning. The Emergent Core Self makes clear that the women have an altered sense of resilience and knowledge of ‘who I am’.
This study reveals that the navigation of career transitions by women in Australia is influenced by the undercurrents of an authoritarian social system skewed to inequality. The implications of the findings point strongly to the need for systemic change where equality is a matter-of-course. From a social systems perspective, it is suggested that the Nordic model provides a system of governance that benefits all citizens. This alternative model offers a solution to embed equity into the Australian systems of governance and social supports. The citizen-centred support characteristics of the Nordic model not only releases women’s burden of time and security, potentially delivering the supportive environment necessary for women in Australian to successfully navigate career transitions, it also provides a platform for equity for all.
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Brayshaw, Meg. "Reflectant tides : the aqueous poetics of Sydney in women's fiction, 1934-1947." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:49608.
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In Sydney, the period between the two world wars was a time of rapid change, when ‘modern’ was considered a goal to which the city and its people should strive. The 1930s were bookended by the opening of the Harbour Bridge in 1932 and the 1938 Sesquicentenary of the First Fleet’s landing, two events that figured Sydney as the triumphant end point of a narrative of national, white Australian progress.
This period also saw the publication of a number of novels by Australian women writers that took the contemporary city as their setting and scrutinised urban modernity as a state of being and an ideological position. This thesis takes as its focus five novels that depict and debate the multiple and often combative discourses of modernity that flowed through Australia’s first and most populous urban centre in the interwar period: Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1934) by Christina Stead, Jungfrau (1936) by Dymphna Cusack, Waterway (1938) by Eleanor Dark, Foveaux (1939) by Kylie Tennant, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1947; 1983) by M. Barnard Eldershaw. Through close reading within and across the novels, I argue that this generation of women writers pioneered a distinctly Australian, modern urban poetics that is best described as aqueous. Responding to Sydney as a dynamic estuarine environment, each writer mobilises water as location and literary device, infusing the modern city’s spaces and processes with productively aqueous qualities of changeability and circulation, unsettlement and motility.
Making heuristic use of a Benjaminian framework for dialectical urban thinking, I read this aqueous poetics of Sydney against the narrative of progress epitomised by the Bridge and Sesquicentenary, arguing that in contradistinction to this narrative, the novels present an Australian urban modernity of material emplacement in an unpredictably watery sphere, where history settles and sediments, multiple ideological schemas flow into one another, and relations between bodies, space and power generate constant contestation.
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Trainor, Johanna Jane. "Australian urban squatters of the 1970s: establishing and living a radical lifestyle in inner‑city Sydney." Thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1420912.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Insensitive urban renewal projects and invasive freeway constructions in the inner‑city of Sydney provoked widespread resistance throughout the 1970s. This thesis traces the interconnections between the highly contentious squatting campaigns that took place in 1973 in Victoria Street, Kings Cross, and the concurrent Glebe anti-expressway movement which opposed the decimation of the historic suburb by the New South Wales state government’s planned radial expressway system. Both of the mobilisations claimed a “right to the city” and demanded the decentralisation of political control over the urban environment, the retention of low-income housing and community participation in the decision-making processes. The Victoria Street occupation demonstrated the power of people over their living conditions and uniquely combined self-help with protest while simultaneously expressing an alternative vision for social organisation in an urban environment. At the same time, the Glebe anti-expressway movement successfully halted the state government’s radial expressway scheme, saving not only housing in the historic suburb of Glebe from demolition but also all of the remaining houses purchased by the Department of Main Roads in the eastern suburbs. These actions together paved the way for the Glebe Estate to become a microcosm of alternative living and politics. This thesis argues that the alternative political and social spaces created by the Victoria Street squatters ignited city-wide squatting campaigns. Drawing on oral history interviews with the participants and personal archival materials, and informed by theories of urban social movements, this research also explores the collective social enterprises and women’s services initiated by the feminist movement and ex-Victoria Street squatters in vacant houses on the Glebe Estate. The study identifies other protest actors who realised the potential of collective empowerment through autonomous political action and who established housing co‑operatives and creative social enterprises in vacant Department of Main Roads properties on the other side of the city in Darlinghurst and council properties in Pyrmont. In contextualising and identifying the interconnectivity of these protest actions, this research presents a case study of a mid-20th century international phenomenon: the ways in which contested urban environments could generate radical experiments in alternative living arrangements, social services and political action which challenged not only conventional government decision-making but also the authority of the state in the realm of daily life.
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Downes, Gregory Maurice. "An oral history of women's football in Australia." Thesis, 2015. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/34684/.
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Women have been playing football (soccer) in Australia since the late
nineteenth century. Over the past forty years the game has grown significantly
with the national team achieving global recognition and the game becoming
more widely accepted within the male-dominated football culture. According to
FIFA there are an estimated 30 million women playing the game worldwide
(FIFA Women’s Football Survey 2014), with around 378, 000 playing in
Australia (Roy Morgan Research 2015). Despite this long and compelling
history, researchers have largely ignored the history of women’s football in
Australia, and the voices of women players remain unheard. The women’s
game is yet to be written into the history of the code.
My research project aims to address this shortage of knowledge by asking the
question – ‘What can the oral history of women who played and play the
game of football contribute to the understandings of gender and football
history in Australia?’ The research uses oral history as a method of qualitative
interview and is based on interviews with eighteen women and three men,
some of whom have represented Australia, other players, administrators and
referees. My methodological approach provides the participants with an
opportunity to express, in their own words, their role in the history of the
game.