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Huntley, Rebecca. ""Sex on the Hustings" : labor and the construction of 'the woman voter' in two federal elections (1983, 1993)." Connect to full text, 2003. http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/adt/public_html/adt-NU/public/adt-NU20040209.113517/index.html.
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Rups-Eyland, Annette Maie, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Social Ecology and Lifelong Learning. "Centre of the storm : in search of an Australian feminist spirituality through performance-ritual." THESIS_CAESS_SELL_Rups-Eyland_A.xml, 2002. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/771.
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The outward form of the text in which the spiritual search is housed is 'performance-ritual', that is, performed 'ritual'. This genre has its 'performance' roots in the dance pioneers and its 'ritual' roots in the Christian church. The contents of this performed text is influenced by an emerging ecofeminist consciousness. In this way, the thesis has a grassroots inspiration as well as crossing academic areas of performance studies, ritual studies, and feminist spirituality. The project begins by an examination of 20th Century feminist and ecofeminist writing on spirituality, which evokes the subjective, embodied and historically contextualised, with particular focus on body and nature. Additional concepts of place, holding and letting go are introduced. Particular performance-rituals are introduced under the overall heading 'the spiralling journey of exorcism and ecstacy'. They include earlier work, as well as work performed specifically for this thesis, Centre of the Storm. The study re-situates 'ritual' as a subjective, embodied and contextualised performed event. It challenges ritual discourse to incorporate 'spirit', and feminist spirituality to incorporate the material world, through 'place', 'family', and the ritual actions of 'holding' and 'letting go'.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Wilson, Erica Christine, and n/a. "A 'Journey Of Her Own'?: The Impact Of Constraints On Women's Solo Travel." Griffith University. Department of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20050209.110742.
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Women are increasingly active in the participation and consumption of travel, and are now recognised as a growing force within the tourism industry. This trend is linked to changing social and political circumstances for Western women around the world. Within Australia specifically, women's opportunities for education and for earning equitable incomes through employment have improved. Furthermore, traditional ideologies of the family have shifted, so that social expectations of marriage and the production of children do not yield as much power as they once did. As a result of these shifts, women living in contemporary Australia have a wider range of resources and opportunities with which to access an ever-increasing array of leisure/travel choices. It appears that one of the many ways in which women have been exercising their relatively recent financial and social autonomy is through independent travel. The solo woman traveller represents a growing market segment, with research showing that increasing numbers of females are choosing to travel alone, without the assistance or company of partners, husbands or packaged tour groups. However, little empirical research has explored the touristic experiences of solo women travellers, or examined the constraints and challenges they may face when journeying alone. 'Constraints' have been described variously as factors which hinder one's ability to participate in desired leisure activities, to spend more time in those activities, or to attain anticipated levels of satisfaction and benefit. While the investigation of constraints has contributed to the leisure studies discipline for a number of decades, the exploration of their influence on tourist behaviour and the tourist experience has been virtually overlooked. Research has shown that despite the choices and opportunities women have today, the freedom they have to consume those choices, and to access satisfying leisure and travel experiences, may be constrained by their social and gendered location as females. Although theorisations of constraint have remained largely in the field of leisure studies, it is argued and demonstrated in this thesis that there is potential in extending constraints theory to the inquiry of the tourist experience. Grounded in theoretical frameworks offered by gender studies, feminist geography, sociology and leisure, this qualitative study set out to explore the impact of constraints on women's solo travel experiences. Forty in-depth interviews were held with Australian women who had travelled solo at some stage of their adult lives. Adopting an interpretive and feminist-influenced research paradigm, it was important to allow the women to speak of their lives, constraints and experiences in their own voices and on their own terms. In line with qualitative methodologies, it is these women's words which form the data for this study. Based on a 'grounded' approach to data analysis, the results reveal that constraints do exist and exert influence on these women's lives and travel experiences in a myriad of ways. Four inter-linking categories of constraint were identified, namely socio-cultural, personal, practical and spatial. Further definition of these categories evolved, depending on where the women were situated in their stage of the solo travel experience (that is, pre-travel or during-travel). The results of this study show that there are identifiable and very real constraints facing solo women travellers. These constraints could stem from the contexts of their home environments, or from the socio-cultural structures of the destinations through which they travelled. However, these constraints were not immutable, insurmountable or even necessarily consciously recognised by many of the women interviewed. In fact, it became increasingly evident that women were findings ways and means to 'negotiate' their constraints, challenges and limitations. Three dominant negotiation responses to constraint could be identified; the women could choose to seek access to solo travel when faced with pre-travel constraints: they could withdraw from solo travel because of those same constraints, or they could decide to continue their journeys as a result of their in-situ constraints. Evidence of women negotiating suggests that constraints are not insurmountable barriers, and confirms that constraints do not necessarily foreclose access to travel. Furthermore, a focus on negotiation re-positions women as active agents in determining the course of their lives and the enjoyment of their solo travel experiences, rather than as passive acceptors of circumstance and constraint. Linking with the concept of negotiation, solo travel was also shown to be a site of resistance, freedom and empowerment for these forty women. Through solo travel, it was apparent that the women could transgress the structures and roles which influenced and governed their lives. This thesis shows that, through solo travel, the women interviewed found an autonomous and self-determining 'journey of their own'. At the same time, the extent to which this really was a journey of their own was questioned and revealed to be problematic under a feminist/gendered lens. Thus a more appropriate concept of women's solo travel is that it is a 'relative escape'. That is, their journeys, escapes and experiences were always situated relative to the societal expectations and perceptions of home; relative to the gendered perceptions and ideologies of the destination, and relative to the limited spatial freedoms as a result of a socially constructed geography of fear.
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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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Rups-Eyland, Annette Maie. "Centre of the storm : in search of an Australian feminist spirituality through performance-ritual /." View thesis View thesis, 2002. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20031222.160235/index.html.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, 2002.A thesis submitted in full requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, School of Social Ecology and Lifelong Learning, University of Western Sydney, May 2002. Bibliography : p. [369]- 395.
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Andrew, Merrindahl, and merrindahl andrew@anu edu au. "Social Movements and the Limits of Strategy: How Australian Feminists Formed Positions on Work and Care." The Australian National University. School of Social Sciences, 2008. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20090508.155410.
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Feminism is often blamed for having made the 'wrong decisions' on issues such as work and care. This thesis argues that such judgements are based on a misperception of how social movements exercise collective agency. While feminist historiography and social movement studies offer some insights, neither directly address the question of to what extent the directions taken by social movements can be shaped by high level strategic decision-making. In answering this question, the research was informed by philosophical pragmatism and by feminist theories of responsibility and reason. The prevailing 'movement CEO' image of decision-making was rejected in favour of an approach directed to interpreting the past actions of the womens movement without neglecting its decentralised and collective nature.
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I began by investigating the degree of strategy in Australian womens movement activism on work and care issues in two periods: the interwar years (19191938) and in the 1970s and 1980s. These periods were chosen because they are often taken to illustrate failures in feminist decision-making. The second-wave movement is said to have failed women by over-emphasising access to paid work at the expense of womens caring roles while the feminists of the early twentieth century are said to have locked women into mothering roles by relying on maternalist arguments. The historical research drew on primary sources including the records created by organisations and individuals involved in the movement, together with oral history interviews. The historical studies found little evidence of capacity for, or orientation towards, high level strategic decision-making in terms of the political and discursive risks identified in later criticisms of feminism. The studies supplement existing historical accounts by illuminating the nature of organisational processes within the movement and the reasoning used by participants.
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I then developed a positive alternative to existing rational actor models of decision making, which avoids the assumption that movements as such engage in strategic decision-making but still allows for the possibility of purposive collective action. This 'organisation-direction' model proposes that collective intentions may be formed in the more densely-organised nodes of a movement field and may pull the movement in certain directions without imposing high-level strategic decisions. Non instrumental elements such as emotion and movement knowledge are irreducible parts of reasoned action, which only sometimes involves assessing risks and opportunities. Movement goals and means are generated in the course of practical engagement rather than through a linear process of decision-making. The thesis contributes to the social movement literature that emphasises the constitutive role of non-instrumental elements of action by showing how these are linked to goal-oriented organisation. The thesis responds to the growing emphasis on strategic choices in social movements by exploring the nature and limits of strategy instead of assuming its usefulness as an interpretive device.
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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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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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Reading, Christina. "Representing melancholy : figurative art and feminism." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2015. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/ae432ef0-fe07-4314-b972-11b50495534a.
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Re-presentations of women's melancholic subjectivity by women figurative artists from different historical moments, canonical images of melancholy and theoretical accounts of melancholy are brought together to address the question: 'What aspects of women's experience of melancholy have women figurative artists chosen to represent historically and contemporaneously, and further what is the importance of these artworks for understanding the nature of women's melancholic subjectivity today?
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Crosland, Gerri, and n/a. "Social welfare professionals as managers : a feminist perspective." University of Canberra. Management, 1992. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060703.122518.
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The dissertation presents the argument that the formal training of a professional social
worker is relevant but not equivalent to the training needs of a professional manager in the
social work field. Social work professionals as managers do not, without management
training, have the same credibility and/or skills as professional managers of social work.
Within the general topic of welfare, research is first directed to the Australian welfare
experience in its historic sense. Selecting relevant philosophical and ideological frameworks
the writer a) critically explores traditional and contemporary theories, with special
reference being made to bureaucracy, organization, and management; b) investigates
theories and practices of social workers and social work managers to ascertain their
relevance to contemporary Australian society, using the A.C.T. Family Services Branch as an
example of a social welfare agency. This assists in explaining the context, functions and
obligations of a welfare agency, as it responds to the needs of the community and of the staff
it employs.
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Gibson, Lisanne, and L. Gibson@mailbox gu edu au. "Art and Citizenship- Governmental Intersections." Griffith University. School of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, 1999. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20030226.085219.
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The thesis argues that the relations between culture and government are best viewed through an analysis of the programmatic and institutional contexts for the use of culture as an interface in the relations between citizenship and government. Discussion takes place through an analysis of the history of art programmes which, in seeking to target a 'general' population, have attempted to equip this population with various particular capacities. We aim to provide a history of rationalities of art administration. This will provide us with an approach through which we might understand some of the seemingly irreconcilable policy discourses which characterise contemporary discussion of government arts funding. Research for this thesis aims to make a contribution to historical research on arts institutions in Australia and provide a base from which to think about the role of government in culture in contemporary Australia. In order to reflect on the relations between government and culture the thesis discusses the key rationales for the conjunction of art, citizenship and government in post-World War Two (WWII) Australia to the present day. Thus, the thesis aims to contribute an overview of the discursive origins of the main contemporary rationales framing arts subvention in post-WWII Australia. The relations involved in the government of culture in late eighteenth-century France, nineteenth-century Britain, America in the 1930s and Britain during WWII are examined by way of arguing that the discursive influences on government cultural policy in Australia have been diverse. It is suggested in relation to present day Australian cultural policy that more effective terms of engagement with policy imperatives might be found in a history of the funding of culture which emphasises the plurality of relations between governmental programmes and the self-shaping activities of citizens. During this century there has been a shift in the political rationality which organises government in modern Western liberal democracies. The historical case studies which form section two of the thesis enable us to argue that, since WWII, cultural programmes have been increasingly deployed on the basis of a governmental rationality that can be described as advanced or neo-liberal. This is both in relation to the forms these programmes have taken and in relation to the character of the forms of conduct such programmes have sought to shape in the populations they act upon. Mechanisms characteristic of such neo-liberal forms of government are those associated with the welfare state and include cultural programmes. Analysis of governmental programmes using such conceptual tools allows us to interpret problems of modern social democratic government less in terms of oppositions between structure and agency and more in terms of the strategies and techniques of government which shape the activities of citizens. Thus, the thesis will approach the field of cultural management not as a field of monolithic decision making but as a domain in which there are a multiplicity of power effects, knowledges, and tactics, which react to, or are based upon, the management of the population through culture. The thesis consists of two sections. Section one serves primarily to establish a set of historical and theoretical co-ordinates on which the more detailed historical work of the thesis in section two will be based. We conclude by emphasising the necessity for the continuation of a mix of policy frameworks in the construction of the relations between art, government and citizenship which will encompass a focus on diverse and sometimes competing policy goals.
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Schilo, Ann. "Folk art in Australia: A discursive analysis." Thesis, Schilo, Ann (1993) Folk art in Australia: A discursive analysis. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1993. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/52760/.
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Informed by the writings of Michel Foucault, this thesis investigates the discourse on folk art in Australia. Emphasis is placed on exploring the recent emergence of a body of statements that contribute to its Australian specificity.
This thesis considers the various discursive strategies that construct the domain of folk art in this country, including the contribution played by overseas folkloric studies in establishing the field. By using a framework operating under the principle of distance and immediacy, the processes of production and dissemination of cultural goods are examined to reveal how material folk culture is located as a peripheral artistic practice. In this regard, the systems of exclusion that operate within high art discourses to define and marginalise women's artistic practice are surveyed as a concomitant discursive domain.
A study of makeshift furniture is undertaken to elucidate how these strategies combined with processes of connoisseurship are involved in constructing the domain of Australian folk art and the appraisal of its cultural value. In the final analysis, attention is given to the subject of aesthetics and the appreciation of folk art.
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Chandler, Patricia Elaine. "Aesthetics of healing : joining feminism, autobiography and landscape /." Online version of thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11759.
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Bursian, Olga, and olga bursian@arts monash edu au. "Uncovering the well-springs of migrant womens' agency: connecting with Australian public infrastructure." RMIT University. Social Science and Planning, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080131.113605.
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The study sought to uncover the constitution of migrant women's agency as they rebuild their lives in Australia, and to explore how contact with any publicly funded services might influence the capacity to be self determining subjects. The thesis used a framework of lifeworld theories (Bourdieu, Schutz, Giddens), materialist, trans-national feminist and post colonial writings, and a methodological approach based on critical hermeneutics (Ricoeur), feminist standpoint and decolonising theories. Thirty in depth interviews were carried out with 6 women migrating from each of 5 regions: Vietnam, Lebanon, the Horn of Africa, the former Soviet Union and the Philippines. Australian based immigration literature constituted the third corner of triangulation. The interviews were carried out through an exploration of themes format, eliciting data about the different ontological and epistemological assumptions of the cultures of origin. The findings revealed not only the women's remarkable tenacity and resilience as creative agents, but also the indispensability of Australia's publicly funded infrastructure or welfare state. The women were mostly privileged in terms of class, education and affirming relationships with males. Nevertheless, their self determination depended on contact with universal public policies, programs and with local community services. The welfare state seems to be modernity's means for re-establishing human connectedness that is the crux of the human condition. Connecting with fellow Australians in friendships and neighbourliness was also important in resettlement. Conclusions include a policy discussion in agreement with Australian and international scholars proposing that there is no alternative but for governments to invest in a welfare state for the civil societies and knowledge based economies of the 21st Century.
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Ackerman, Amanda K. "Victor Burgin's "Gradiva": Feminism, Antiquity, and Conceptualism." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1470672257.
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Luker, Trish, and LukerT@law anu edu au. "THE RHETORIC OF RECONCILIATION: EVIDENCE AND JUDICIAL SUBJECTIVITY IN CUBILLO v COMMONWEALTH." La Trobe University. School of Law, 2006. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au./thesis/public/adt-LTU20080305.105209.
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In August 2000, Justice O�Loughlin of the Federal Court of Australia handed down the decision in Cubillo v Commonwealth in which Lorna Cubillo and Peter Gunner took action against the Commonwealth Government, arguing that it was vicariously liable for their removal from their families and communities as children and subsequent detentions in the Northern Territory during the 1940s and 1950s. The case is the landmark decision in relation to legal action taken by members of the Stolen Generations.
Using the decision in Cubillo as a key site of contestation, my thesis provides a critique of legal positivism as the dominant jurisprudential discourse operating within the Anglo-Australian legal system. I argue that the function of legal positivism as the principal paradigm and source of authority for the decision serves to ensure that the debate concerning reconciliation in Australia operates rhetorically to maintain whiteness at the centre of political and discursive power. Specifically concerned with the performative function of legal discourse, the thesis is an interrogation of the interface of law and language, of rhetoric, and the semiotics of legal discourse.
The dominant theory of evidence law is a rationalist and empiricist epistemology in which oral testimony and documentary evidence are regarded as mediating the relationship between proof and truth. I argue that by attributing primacy to principles of rationality, objectivity and narrative coherence, and by privileging that which is visually represented, the decision serves an ideological purpose which diminishes the significance of race in the construction of knowledge.
Legal positivism identifies the knowing subject and the object of knowledge as discrete entities. However, I argue that in Cubillo, Justice O�Loughlin inscribes himself into the text of the judgment and in doing so, reveals the way in which textual and corporeal specificities undermine the pretence of objective judgment and therefore the source of judicial authority.
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Eddy, Rebecca L. "A quest for art." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 1999. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1185.
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Thesis (M.F.A.)--West Virginia University, 1999.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iii, 22 p. : col. ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 17).
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Van, der Merwe Leana. "Sacrificial and hunted bodies : ritualistic death and violence in the work of selected South African female artists." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46213.
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This study investigates the multiple occurrence of violent sacrificial imagery
associated with animalistic and hunted bodies in the work of selected South African
female artists as an articulation of the society in which the art was created. The
theoretical framework of corporeal feminism is applied with reference to the
postulations of George Bataille (1962), René Girard (1972) as well as Deleuze and
Guattari (1984,1987), specifically with regard to the notion of becoming animal. This
study shows how such imagery is used to act as a catalyst for social change by
challenging Cartesian dualisms and forefronts certain issues applicable to women in
a society that is patriarchal and violent. A comparison is made with the art of a
selected group of Australian female artists who deal with similar themes and imagery
from more or less the same timeframe.Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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Nanlohy, Elizabeth Mavis, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Fundamentalism meets feminism: Postmodern confrontation in the work of Janette Turner Hospital." Deakin University. School of Literary and Communication Studies, 2000. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20060720.090953.
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Webb, Rosemary Ferguson. "Australian girl readers, femininities and feminism in the Second World War (1939-1945) a study of subjectivity and agency /." Access electronically, 2004. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20050706.111946/index.html.
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Weeda-Zuidersma, Jeannette. "Keeping mum : representations of motherhood in contemporary Australian literature - a fictocritical exploration." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0054.
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[Truncated abstract] This thesis argues that the non-representation and under-representation of mothering in contemporary Australian literature reflects a much wider cultural practice of silencing the mother-as-subject position and female experiences as a whole. The thesis encourages women writers to pay more attention to the subjective experiences of mothering, so that women’s writing, in particular writing on those aspects of women’s lives that are silenced, of which motherhood is one, can begin to refigure motherhood discourses. This thesis examines mother-as-subject from three perspectives: mothering as a corporeal experience, mothering as a psychological experience, and the articulations and silences of mothering-as-subject. It engages with feminist, postmodern and fictocritical theories in its discussion of motherhood as a discourse through these perspectives. In particular, the thesis employs the theoretical works of postmodern feminists Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva in this discussion . . . A fictional narrative also runs through the critical discussion on motherhood. This narrative, Catherine’s Story, gives a personal and immediate voice to the mother-as-subject perspective. In keeping with the nature of fictocriticism, strict textual boundaries between criticism and fiction are blurred. The two modes of writing interact and in the process inform and critique each other.
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Bemrose, Anna. "A servant of art : Robert Helpmann in Australia /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17332.pdf.
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Hudson, Kim. ""Spiritual but not religious" : a phenomenological study of spirituality in the everyday lives of younger women in contemporary Australia /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2007. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20070711.105502.
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Wong, See-yuen Gina. "Global feminisms in feminist art and their new challenges." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38697245.
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Wong, See-yuen Gina, and 黃思源. "Global feminisms in feminist art and their new challenges." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38697245.
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Moore, Teresa Gaye, and t. moore@cqu edu au. "THE GAP BETWEEN HOPE AND HAPPENING: FEMINIST CONSCIOUSNESS MEETS PNALLOCENTRIC SMOG IN A REGIONAL AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITY." Central Queensland University. School of Education and Innovation, 2004. http://library-resources.cqu.edu.au./thesis/adt-QCQU/public/adt-QCQU20060921.120629.
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The gap between hope and happening refers to the experiences of four academic women
who work at Milton University (MU), the pseudonym for a regional Australian
university. This thesis is concerned with the ways in which discourses circulating within
MU shape the performances and discursive positionings of the four women - Alice,
Madonna, Veronica and Tamaly (all pseudonyms) - and how, in turn, these women
negotiate these discourses. Data are drawn from the womens narratives, university
policy documents and selected institutional texts. A feminist poststructuralist lens
interrogates both policies, reflecting different approaches towards gender equity at MU,
and discursive practices, constructing the good academic at MU.
Instead of acts of resistance, what is revealed in this workplace is the continuing covert
strategies of marginalization that reproduce womens positioning on the margins of
mainstream academia, indicating the presence of a kind of phallocentnc smog emerging
from a dominant masculine culture. This thesis finds a gap between the transformative
potential of the four women at the micro-social (subjectivity) level and the lack of
transformation at the macro-social (workplace) level. This suggests that the womens
abilities to resist and transform phallocentric discourses at the personal/private level are
not sustainable at the public level because of the enduring power of normative
institutional discourses or the phallocentric smog. This thesis signals the need for ongoing
interrogation of the gap between the hope that feminists have (theory) and the
happening for women (practice) in the quest for sustainable equity.
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Wark, Jayne Marie. "The radical gesture, feminism and performance art in the 1970s." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0001/NQ27749.pdf.
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Mantzari, Despoina. "Women directors in 'global' art cinema : negotiating feminism and representation." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2014. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/48685/.
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The thesis explores the cultural field of global art cinema as a potential space for the inscription of female authorship and feminist issues. Despite their active involvement in filmmaking, traditionally women directors have not been centralised in scholarship on art cinema. Filmmakers such as Germaine Dulac, Agnès Varda and Sally Potter, for instance, have produced significant cinematic oeuvres but due to the field's continuing phallocentricity, they have not enjoyed the critical acclaim of their male peers. Feminist scholarship has focused mainly on the study of Hollywood and although some scholars have foregrounded the work of female filmmakers in non-Hollywood contexts, the relationship between art cinema and women filmmakers has not been adequately explored. The thesis addresses this gap by focusing on art cinema. It argues that art cinema maintains a precarious balance between two contradictory positions; as a route into filmmaking for women directors allowing for political expressivity, with its emphasis on artistic freedom which creates a space for non-dominant and potentially subversive representations and themes, and as another hostile universe given its more elitist and auteurist orientation. The thesis adopts a case study approach, looking at a number of contemporary art films from diverse socio-political contexts. It thus provides a comprehensive account of how women are positioned within art cinema as subjects and as filmmakers. The thesis uses a social historical approach in looking at the texts as well as the contexts these texts operate within. In analysing how female directors voice feminist concerns through a negotiation of political and artistic preoccupations, the thesis aims to reclaim art cinema as a cultural field that brings the marginal closer to the mainstream and thus functions for feminism as the site of productive ideological dialogue.
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Tan, Eliza. "Yoshiko Shimada : art, feminism and memory in Japan after 1989." Thesis, Kingston University, 2016. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/37319/.
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This thesis investigates the intersection of art, feminism and postwar memory in Japan through lens of artist Yoshiko Shimada. Coinciding with unprecedented geopolitical shifts occurring in the final thaw of the Cold War, the year 1989 marks a fraught moment in Japan when spectres of the nation's imperialist past and its historical entanglements acquired renewed potency in the wake of Emperor Hirohito's death. Born in 159, Shimada gained international prominence in the 1990s for her critique of the national body, in particular, the relationship between women and the imperial wartime state. Her work, which unapologetically confronts Japan's WWII aggressions in Asia, its wider histories of occupation, and issues such as the fiercely contested legacies of former 'comfort women' vitally reflects on the social role and agency of art and artist in a climate of political unease emergent at Showa's close. Based on extensive interviews with the artist and research into her primary archive, this is the first comprehensive survey chronicling Shimad;s twenty-five year oeuvre. It situates her practice between two vectors: feminism in Japan and its engagement with Western scholarship, and traces the 1990s 'feminist turn' led by art historians such as Chino Kaori, who began to champion the application of gender perspectives in the study of Japanese art. Within the wider Asian region, the concurrent development of transnational women's art' networks, exhibitions and publications dovetailed with the burgeoning of performance art was protest. As one of the most outspoken feminist art activists of her generation, Shimada has borne key witness to the changing cultural conditions informing women artists' organised activities and the writing of their social histories. This interdisciplinary study incorporates a range of perspectives drawn from art history and gender studies, film and performance theory, memory and trauma studies, Japanese studies and cross-cultural scholarship. It highlights the formal and conceptual interactions between printmaking, performance, installation and lens-based media in Shimada's practice, and demonstrates the plural ways in which her reflexive aesthetics and visual strategies express the tensions and complexities characterising processes of remembering, forgetting and representing the past. By interweaving arguments about the crucial role of feminism in challenging dominant narratives of nation, race, sex and ethnicity, with critical perspectives central to discourse on postmodern Japan, questions are raised concerning the implications of gender, tradition and popular culture for art produced in this age of anxiety. The recent proliferation of problem-oriented, politically engaged practices following the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami marks an ostensible 'return to the social' and departure from privileged tropes of 'Japaneseness' in artistic experimentation. Taking this into account, this thesis proposes that revisiting the recent history of feminist art interventions reveals valuable insights into the role of art in understanding and addressing trauma, and engaging marginalised histories and communities. This is exemplified by Shimada's work, which offers a powerful vantage point from which to contemplate art's political inflections, its social potential and the urgency of memory work both in Japan, and in our contemporary societies today.
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Dedic, Aleksandra. "FEMININITY AND FEMINISM IN ART PRACTICES IN SERBIA: 1970-2010." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de València, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/90503.
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The research subject of this PhD thesis is femininity and feminism in art practices in Serbia: 1970-2010. The study is dedicated to art production of the authors from Serbia taking into consideration both theoretical and practical knowledge and sources. This thesis will contribute to the literature from the domains of art theory and art history of international and Serbian resources primarily because of its multidisciplinary approach. It will also help spreading the knowledge about the topic because it is realized in English as the official language of academic research thus making it material available for future studies outside the borders of Serbia. The theoretical contribution of this thesis addresses issues of construction of femininity in Serbia and analyzes the visual language of artworks relevant for the topic; it also provides an overview of art practices connected to the themes; besides that, it offers an insight into local feminist tendencies. In addition, what is also important is that it supplies interviews realized with the artists as the source for future research and study. Furthermore, theoretical and analytical methods are applied for selection and interpretation of the representative artworks and for the analyses of texts from the various fields of studies. The set objectives in this thesis have been confirmed through research results and their conclusions that underline local specificities on one side and follow general characteristics in art practices in Serbia on the other. Male dominance in patriarchal societies is maintained by cherishing gender stereotypes that are obvious in the dynamics that objectify woman but also in her positioning in the art world. In the domain of anthropological research, even though there are local specificities, it can be said that femininity in art reached the more general, "omnipresent" tendencies in representations of feminine identity. Speaking from the point of view of historical particularities, ideology and politics have actively and continuously participated in the construction of "femininity" (and "masculinity") that reflected on the art production of a more radical, original, and distinct character. As the media are mirroring social relations and gender inequalities, in conjunction with the dominant ideology, also transition and globalization influenced the topics and visual strategies of Serbian artworks.
Keywords: art, femininity, feminism, artwork, art practice, Serbia, performance, visual, image, representation, identity, gender, popular culture, woman, socialism, ideology, stereotypes, mythology, interviewEl tema de investigación de esta tesis doctoral es la feminidad y el feminismo en las prácticas artísticas en Serbia: 1970-2010. El estudio se dedica a la producción artística de los/as autores/as de Serbia teniendo en cuenta los conocimientos teóricos y prácticos. Esta tesis contribuirá a la literatura del área de conocimiento de la teoría del arte y la historia del arte de los recursos internacionales y serbios principalmente debido a su enfoque multidisciplinario. También ayudará a difundir el conocimiento sobre el tema ya que se realiza en inglés, idioma oficial de la investigación académica, por lo que el resultado estará disponible para futuros estudios más allá de las fronteras de Serbia. La contribución teórica de esta tesis aborda cuestiones de construcción de la feminidad en Serbia y analiza el lenguaje visual de las obras de arte relevantes relacionadas con el tema. Además, ofrece una visión general de las prácticas artísticas que se pueden englobar en el ámbito de estudio, ofreciendo una visión de las tendencias feministas locales. Cabe destacar la parte dedicada a las entrevistas realizadas a las artistas que son un posible punto de partida para futuras investigaciones y estudios. Se han aplicado métodos teóricos y analíticos para la selección e interpretación de las obras representativas y para el análisis de textos de los diferentes campos de estudio. Los objetivos establecidos en esta tesis se han confirmado a través de los resultados de la investigación y sus conclusiones que subrayan las especificidades locales por un lado y siguen las características generales en las prácticas artísticas en Serbia por el otro. La dominación masculina en las sociedades patriarcales se mantiene en los estereotipos de género que son evidentes en la dinámica que objetualiza a la mujer, pero también en su posicionamiento en el mundo del arte. En el campo de la investigación antropológica, aunque existen especificidades locales, se puede decir que la feminidad en el arte encaja con las tendencias más generales, "omnipresentes", en las representaciones de la identidad femenina. Hablando desde el punto de vista de las particularidades históricas, la ideología y la política han participado activa y continuamente en la construcción de la "feminidad" (y "masculinidad") la cual en la producción artística refleja un carácter más radical, original y distinto. Mientras que los medios de comunicación reflejaban y producían también las relaciones sociales y las desigualdades de género, junto con la ideología dominante, lo mismo sucedía con el periodo de transición del comunismo al capitalismo y la globalización que influyeron en los temas y estrategias visuales de las obras de arte serbias. Palabras claves: arte, feminidad, feminismo, prácticas artísticas, Serbia, performance, visual, imagen, representación, identidad, género, cultura popular, mujer, socialismo, ideología, estereotipos, mitología, entrevista
El tema d¿investigació d¿aquesta tesi doctoral és la feminitad i el feminisme en les pràctiques artístiques a Sèrbia: 1970-2010. L¿estudi es dedica a la producció artística dels autors i autores de Serbia tenint en compte els coneixements teòrics i pràctics. Aquesta tesis contribuirà a la literatura de l¿àrea de coneixement de la teoria de l¿art i la història de l¿art dels recursos internacionals i serbis principalment degut al seu enfocament multidisciplinari. També ajudarà a difondre el coneixement sobre el tema tenint en compte que es fa en anglès, idioma oficial de la investigació acadèmica, de manera que el resultat estarà disponible per a futurs estudis més enllà de les fronteres de Sèrbia. La contribució teòrica d¿aquesta tesi aborda questions de construcció de la feminitat a Sèrbia i analitza el llenguatge visual de les obres d¿art rellevants relacionades amb el tema. A més, ofereix una visió general de les pràctiques artístiques que es poden englobar en l¿àmbit d¿estudi, oferint una visió de les tendències feministes locals. Cal destacar la part dedicada a les entrevistes realitzades a les artistes que són un possible punt de partida per a futures investigacions i estudis. S¿han aplicat mètodes teòrics i analítics per a la selecció i interpretació de les obres representatives i per a l¿ anàlisi de textos dels diferents camps d¿estudi. Els objetius establerts en aquesta tesis s¿han confirmat mitjançant els resultats de la investigació i les seues conclusions que subratllen les especificitats locals per una banda i segueixen les característiques generals en les pràctiques artístiques en Sèrbia per una altra. La dominació masculina en les societats patriarcals es manté en els estereotips de gènere que són palesos en la dinàmica que objectualitza a la dona, però també en el seu posicionamient al món de l¿art. En el camp de la investigació antropològica, tot i que existeixen especificitats locals, es pot dir que la feminitat en l¿art encaixa amb les tendències més generals, "omnipresents", en les representacions de la identitat femenina. Parlant des de el puntde vista de las particularitats històriques, la ideologia i la política han participat activa i continuament en la construcció de la "feminitat" (y "masculinitat") la qual cosa reflecteix en la producció artística un tarannà més radical, original i diferent. Mentre que els mitjans de comunicació reflectien i produïen también les relacions socials i les desigualtats de gènere, junt amb la ideologia dominant, el mateix succeïa amb el periode de transició del comunisme al capitalisme i la globalització que varen influir en els temes i estrategies visuals de les obres d¿arte serbi. Paraules clau: art, feminitat, feminisme, práctiques artístiques, Sèrbia, performance, visual, imatge, representació, identitad, gènere, cultura popular, dona, socialisme, ideologia, estereotips, mitologia, entrevista
Dedic, A. (2017). FEMININITY AND FEMINISM IN ART PRACTICES IN SERBIA: 1970-2010 [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/90503
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Tupper, Denise. "My Family of Women: Celebrating Blackness and Exploring Themes of Black Feminism." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/182.
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This paper maps themes (e.g. family, beauty, femininity, gender, blackness, representation) and artists from the Black arts and Feminist art movement who have been very influential when planning this senior art project. I specifically look at the works of Black feminist artists such as Betye Saar, Faith Ringgold, Carrie Mae Weems, Kara Walker, and Mickalene Thomas who navigate themes from both movements. In my project I have painted a series of interpretive acrylic portraits of close friends and family members, all adapted from photographs.
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Murray, K. M. "The use of abstract and figurative images to evoke emotive qualities characteristic of women's sexuality /." View thesis, 1995. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030905.151911/index.html.
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Lee, Kara. "The Textuality of the Body: Orlan's Performance as Subversive Act." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31365.
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In this paper, I argue that the performance artist Orlan uses feminist tactics of subversion in her presentation of the body as art. I enter the feminist debate over Orlan's work to indicate that the critics who consider the history of performance art produce more fecund discourse. At the same time, I encourage more discussion over the racial dimensions of Orlan's art, which I describe as de-colonizing her body's representation.Master of Arts
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Hinson, Sandy, and n/a. "An ethnography of teacher perceptions of cultural and institutional practices relating to sexual harassment in ACT high schools." University of Canberra. Education, 1993. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060724.141946.
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This two year, topic-oriented ethnography documents teacher perceptions of
cultural and institutional practices relating to sexual harassment in 12 co-educational,
government ACT high schools. Participants include over one hundred and forty
teachers, seventy eight of whom have contributed formal interviews.
Through analysis and triangulation of ethnographic interviews, participant
observation data and school and Departmental documents, the study identifies cultural
and institutional practices which, according to teacher perceptions, contribute to:
� encouraging sexual harassment;
� discouraging reports of sexual harassment; and
� discouraging implementation of sexual harassment policy.
Emerging cultural and institutional practices include blame attribution, silencing
and gender construction which contribute to the marginalisation of some female
teachers (in terms of their career); some female students (in terms of their education)
and some male students who are perceived to be "gay" (in terms of their friendship
groups).
The usefulness, limitations and capacity to explain sexual harassment of a range
of theoretical approaches are discussed. These approaches include Attribution, Role,
Reproduction and Feminist theories. It is argued that, although accounting for the
majority of sexual harassment, these theories are limited in their ability to fully account
for:
a) all kinds of sexual harassment practised in ACT high schools;
b) the relationship between sexual harassment and other kinds of harassment
in ACT high schools; and
c) the extent to which some women teachers appear to support the practice of
sexual harassment.
Emerging Poststructuralist Feminism is proposed as a potentially useful
theoretical framework for explaining and responding to sexual harassment in ACT high
schools.
It is hoped that this study will contribute to informing the decision making of
those responsible for developing and/or implementing sexual harassment policy in ACT
high schools, including teachers, school counsellors, principals, and administrators.
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Harwood, Susan. "Gendering change : an immodest manifesto for intervening in masculinist organisations." Western Australia. Police Service, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0017.
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[Truncated abstract] Conservative, incremental and modest approaches to redressing gendered workplace cultures have had limited success in challenging the demographic profile of densely masculinist workplaces. In this thesis I draw on a study of women in police work to argue that combating highly institutionalised, entrenched masculinist practices calls for more than modesty. Indeed the study shows that ambitious, even contentious, recommendations for new procedures can play an important role when the goal is tangible change in cultures where there is an excess of men. In conclusion I posit the need for some bold risk-taking, alongside incremental tactics, if the aim is to change the habits and practices of masculinist organisations . . . This dissertation maps that interventionist process across a four-year period. In assessing the role played by the feminist methodology I analyse what people can learn to see and say about organisational practices, how they participate in or seek to undermine various forms of teamwork, as well as how individual team members display their new understandings and behaviours. I conclude that the techniques for supporting women in authoritarian, densely masculinist workplaces should include some bold and highly visible ‘critical acts’, based on commitment from the top coupled to strongly motivated and highly informed teamwork.
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Tzavaras, Annette. "Transforming perceptions of Islamic culture in Australia through collaboration in contemporary art." Faculty of Creative Arts, 2008. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/120.
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My creative work investigates the negative space, the ‘in between space’ that leads to new knowledge about other artists and other cultures. The fundamental and distinctive elements of Islamic pattern in my paintings in the exhibition Dialogue in Diversity are based on my own experience of misinformation as well as rewarding collaboration within a culturally blended family.This research explores the continuity of the arabesque and polygon. I experiment with the hexagon and its geometric shapes, with its many repeat patterns and the interrelatedness of the negative space, or the void indicative of the space between layers of past and present civilizations that are significant fundamentals in my paintings.The thesis Transforming perceptions of Islamic culture in Australia through collaboration in contemporary art traces the visual history of Orientalist art, beginning with a key image of Arthur Streeton, Fatima Habiba, painted in 1897 and contrasts Streeton’s perception with that of important Islamic women artists working globally such as Emily Jacir who participated in the Zones of Contact 2006 Biennale of Sydney.A core element of my research is working with emerging artists from Islamic backgrounds in Western Sydney. The February 2007 exhibition Transforming Perceptions Via . . . at the University of Wollongong brought together artists from east and west.By adopting the Islamic pattern in my paintings, I hope to strengthen the interaction between the Christian and Muslim interface in Australian contemporary society. My work contemplates the human aspects of relationships and responsibilities within the cross cultural spectrum.
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Bonner, Sarah. "Fairy tales and feminism in contemporary visual art and popular culture." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.518484.
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Johnson, Clare. "Textures of femininity : Temporality, feminism and gereration in contemporary Women's art." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.525339.
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Kidder, Alana D. "Women Artists in Pop: Connections to Feminism in Non-Feminist Art." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1388760449.
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Prociv, Patricia Mary. "Personal identity and the image-based culture of Catholicism." View thesis View thesis, 2000. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030520.145146/index.html.
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Chaplain, Josefina. "Gendered visions postcolonial Indian art." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31223928.
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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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Lloyd, Sharni, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Exploratory surgery of the female psyche." Deakin University, 1996. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20051111.115947.
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The thesis explores the visual narrative concerning a journey of empowerment for women. To enable the journey to advance the inquiry is directed into two areas. The first area is female gender, which is argued to be socially constructed and implicit in the marginalisation of women in western society. The second area is feminine authority, which is gained by developing an understanding and acceptance of the characteristics which have historically been considered as belonging to the feminine. Granting these characteristics agency would recognise their authority and assist in the elevation of the female to a position of equality in western society.
Beginning from a feminist position, the research supported the belief that the female is marginalised in western society. It also confirmed the notion that empowerment and authority can be attained by women if they actively pursue the following;
Explore their own psychology beyond the existing socially constructed gender roles.
Develop an understanding of their feminine self by applying Jung's theories on individuation and archetypes.
Expose the underlying patriarchal influence in western epistemology and science by challenging existing deeply held cultural and scientific beliefs and by actively contributing as feminists to the areas of epistemology and science.
Archetypal myths of the feminine have developed from an androcentric position. They enforce and perpetuate gender imbalance which contributes to the disenfranchisement of women in western society, Individuation is a process in which a person explores aspects of themselves to bring forth parts of their unconscious into their conscious mind in an attempt to gain a deeper understanding of themselves. As a consequence the consciousness develops closer links with archetypal memories which assists the exploration. The true feminine is the feminine not restricted or defined by the dominant androcentric view. Knowledge of the feminine empowers women to address the marginalisation of the female in western society and assists in the process of gaining female authority.
This enquiry also investigated the four stages of female psychological development with regard to patriarchal influences. Of particular importance is the second stage of psychological development where the female identifies with historically perceived inferior characteristics of the female. This is when she rejects her connections with the primacy of female power and her deep connections with nature which were inherited from archaic times. It is at this stage that she absorbs the myths associated with western patriarchal society which effectively disempower her.
Western epistemology, with its emphasis on objective investigation and empiricism contributes to the support for and promotion of inferior female gender. This type of investigation is brought into question when areas of research into primates and human evolutionary theory is shown to develop from an androcentric view.
Western knowledge has associations with power and justice and power is commonly associated with dominance. Regard for truth and absolute can be viewed as key elements in the support for knowledge and its associations with power. Knowledge has historically maintained suppression of individual experience which promotes a universalised account. This suppression of beliefs other than the dominant authority maintains the existing dominant social structure.
Foucault's view of the genderised or inscribed body alerts us to areas where dominance, resistance and power play a part in maximising masculine power and control. Gender becomes an instrument of power within the existing patriarchal structure. Gender, knowledge and power are identified as areas obstructing female empowerment.
Part 3 of this exegesis examines the imagery which embodies the visual narrative. Particularly, the harlequin image, its historical background and connections with ancient mythology including reference to Jungian psychology. The harlequin image is developed sequentially in the earlier black and white drawings on paper. These drawings contained a female figure which was often placed in juxtaposition with a Venus or goddess image, reference was also made to eve and the siren. These elements provided the framework which enabled the harlequin image to emerge and evolve. The narrative developed with an understanding of the feminine aspects of the psyche which resulted in the harlequin acquiring the elevated authority of a goddess.
The Harlequin evolved from my need for symbolic representation of the female psyche. It represents contradiction and dualism. It is a composition of opposites, reflects masculine and feminine traits, the dark and light of the conscious and unconscious mind, it houses both comic and sinister elements, is a trickster and menace. The costume, colours and patterns are expressive elements conducive to fragmentation and layering within the composition of the paintings.
Jung examined the harlequin in Picasso's paintings. He concluded that as Picasso drew on his inner experiences the harlequin became important as a symbol; it was a pictorial representation from the unconscious psyche. It travelled freely from the conscious to the unconscious and represented the masculine and feminine, chthonian and apollonian.
The final painting in the series, a triptych, completes the narrative and stands alone as a salutatory work. It unites the series by combining existing compositional devices
and technique while making reference to imagery from previous works, The Three Graces Victorious, expresses the authority of the feminine. It completes a victorious stage of a journey where the harlequin is empowered by archaic memories and knowledge of the psyche. The feminine is hailed, elevated and venerated.
Other elements which assist in expressing the visual narrative are; colour, technique and influence. Colour is explored and its use as an emotive devise in expressionism. Paul Klee's writing on the use of colour and it's symbolic meaning and Julia Kristeva's investigation on colour from a psychoanalytic and semiotic view are also discussed.
To indicate influences and connections within my oeuvre, reference is also made to the following: Jasper Johns' for his use of imagery in his Four Seasons series with it's reference to a journey of maturation and Louise Bourgeois' work which deals with issues of gender, memories and past journeys.
Although The Three Graces Victorious; the concluding painting for the investigation is celebratory and represents a finality to the thesis, it points to further areas that impede feminine development and need future examination. Reference is made to a continuation of the exploratory journey by plotting the Harlequin/Goddesses future directions. Although the Harlequin/Goddess is empowered with newly acquired authority, her future journey does not need to be bound by mathematics or limited by rationality. She does not require power to dominate or gender structures to subjugate, but requires limitless boundaries and contexts. The Harlequin/Goddess's future journey is not fixed.
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Garnons-Williams, Victoria. "Art teacher pre-service education : a survey of the attitudes of Queensland secondary, and tertiary art educators." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26115.
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This study compares the views of three groups of art educators - secondary, tertiary pre-service lecturers, and scholars - about the content and structure considered important in art teacher pre-service education.
Items of program content and structure, as well as issues in art-teacher preparation were gleaned from the writings of selected scholars and incorporated into a survey questionnaire. The survey was distributed to secondary art educators throughout Queensland and to art pre-service lecturers throughout Australia. An analysis of the results identifies areas and degrees of agreement and difference on items both within and between groups. The study can assist the development of art teacher pre-service programmes that reflect the values of both theoreticians and practitioners of art education.Education, Faculty of
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Shaw, Peter. "The conceptions of art practice held by tertiary visual art students." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1993. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36703/1/36703_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.
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This study explores student learning in a tertiary visual arts institution. Students' conceptions of art practice are described using the phenomenologically based educational research method of phenomenography. The study addresses the intentional content of student art practice in the contexts of the visual arts institution and the status of visual arts in the 1990s. Data collection was carried out through interviews with Honours Year visual arts students, which was processed using textual analysis to examine understandings related to the visual arts.
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Lauritis, Beth Anne. "Lucy Lippard and the provisional exhibition intersections of conceptual art and feminism, 1970-1980 /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1925733141&sid=11&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Bode, Katherine. "In/visibility : women looking at men's bodies in and through contemporary Australian women's fiction /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://adt.library.uq.edu.au/public/adt-QU20060120.161127/index.html.
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Pennings, Mark W. "Charles Wheeler and the nude in Australia." Connect to thesis, 1991. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/1432.
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The place for Charles Wheeler’s nudes in Australian art history has not been adequately gauged by art historians. He was one of Australia’s most notable painters of the nude, not perhaps because his vision was particularly inventive or original, but rather because he was an important, conservative conduit of that European tradition. Wheeler was very popular with the buying public over many decades, but success with his nudes was fundamentally a critical one. The positive response to Wheeler’s nudes, paintings which combined elements of the academic tradition and more fashionable conventions, presents an intriguing reflection on the nature of art criticism in Australia. The style of Wheeler’s discourse is indebted not only to late nineteenth century British models, as it was represented in the writings of critics such as R.A.M. Stevenson, who was primarily concerned with technique, but also to current debates about art and morality. One of the determining characteristics of this discourse was an interest in defining the limits between naked and nude. Critics were particularly concerned to protect the nude as a genre against moral attack by refusing to engage in a discussion of its sensual aspects. While the public was keen to debate the moral problems associated with the nude, the critics were anxious to avoid these issues. They felt that questions of morality were not central to artistic merit, and sensed that by engaging in discussion of this kind, the nude was on danger of being brought into disrepute.
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Bradley, Jessica. "Postmodern bodies and feminist art practice." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=69635.
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This thesis examines, from a feminist perspective, conceptions of the body proposed by poststructuralist philosophy and postmodernist art practice. Within both feminist and postmodern critiques of the humanist subject, the body has come to be understood as a site of cultural inscriptions. In tracing the relationship between postmodernism and feminism, the thesis addresses specifically the shift from celebratory, affirmative female imagery typical of feminist art in the seventies, to the semiotic analysis of images of women which, in the eighties, problematized the question of sexual difference as one of representation. During the eighties women artists generally eschewed figurative representations of the female body in recognition of its over-determined socio-sexual status. Within this historical framework, the tension between the "de-materialized" body of postmodernity and the insistently present body of gendered experience is explored both in the work of feminist theorists and contemporary women artists. In conclusion, three corporeal sites--the cultural, the epistemological and the psycho-sexual--are analysed in the postmodern practices of Jana Sterbak, Nell Tenhaaf and Kati Campbell.
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Vickery, Veronica. "Fractured earth : unsettled landscape through art practice." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/25237.
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This thesis brings feminist ontologies into a renewed dialogue with post-phenomenological landscape studies through the development of a critical arts-research practice. Contemporary landscape scholarship in cultural geography foregrounds landscaping practices as performative; visual culture studies, similarly influenced by phenomenology, critiques the powerful fixings of representation; whilst current commentaries on art-geographies focus on questions of interdisciplinarity, rather than the potential for art practice-as-research to be generative of politically complex cultural geographies. Landscape, replete with complex power geometries and tension, both resists fixing and framing, and also becomes defined or imaged by these same operations. My goal in this thesis is to find a way of working, as an artist, with an understanding of landscape as being continually in eventful—and sometimes violently eventful—process, beyond conventional framings of image and landscape. Initially, this art practice (undertaken as research within cultural geography) worked with a violent flash flood and resultant loss of life, and was set against the backdrop of picture-postcard West Cornwall. Whilst focused through practice on this usually trickling mile-long moorland stream, something happened. This research became infected by concurrent geo-political events. Through practice in the studio, the violent lifeworld of the stream collided with an activist project associated with the 2014 Gaza conflict. Land and image became both occupied and ghosted. This corporeal and material collision of practice(s) afforded a productive entanglement of practice and theoretical engagement. My search for a way of working with landscape as an artist that accounts for the unpalatable dimensions of material formations, for the dying within living, for the exclusions, subjugation, violence, or even extinctions of landscape—led me to realise that I cannot stand back innocently and safely behind the camera, outside of the frame. I propose that landscape is inherently violent, and that as such, landscaping practices are always politically differentiated and situated. It is a violence in which there can be no innocent place of on-looking; we are all mutually implicated in landscape and landscaping-practices, and indeed, the ghosts of our own vulnerabilities are never far away. The thesis demonstrates that the unpredictability and riskiness of researching through a critical arts practice, can produce the conditions for disruptive interventions generative of new ways of (body)knowing in the world. These ways of knowing serve to confront the violence and contradictions of a fast changing enviro/geopolitical landscape. Working from within an art practice—as geographical research—contributes a perspective of political complexity and generative encounter, in which unexpected collisions, between things, practices, and bodies function to produce spatial connections beyond contemporary analysis.
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Bellettiere, Giovanna Marie. "AMERICAN FEMINISM: THE CAMERA WORK OF ALICE AUSTEN, ALFRED STIEGLITZ, AND BERENICE ABBOTT." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/578947.
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This thesis explores the work of photographers: Alice Austen, Alfred Stieglitz, and Berenice Abbott in relation to the American landscape of New York from approximately 1880 through 1940. Although the artwork of Georgia O’Keeffe is not addressed specifically, her role as an artist communicating her modern self image through Stieglitz’s photography is one area of focus in the second chapter. Previous scholarship has drawn parallels between women artists and photographers solely in terms related to their gender identity. In contrast, my project identifies a common theoretical thread that links the work of these artists: namely, that photography allowed professional women of this time to react and rise above the constrictions of gender expectations, and moreover, how their own attitudes based in feminist sensibility enabled them to fashion and broadcast bold, liberated self-images. Inspired by the radical transformations of women’s social roles in the United States, each artist produced photographs that represented the evolving role of women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using visual analysis and historical context associated with the “New Woman” movement, I argue that each artist discussed in this thesis not only challenges the domestic sphere conventionally assigned to women photographers, but also makes new strides by engaging in work that allows for them to autonomously travel within their own territories or new expansive locations. This thesis gives fresh insight as to how photography provided novel opportunities for elevating women’s place in society, as well as in the artistic realm. Overall, photography was an important tool for each artist as these three women act as agents of change by demonstrating a control of womanhood while the role of a female was beginning to become less constrained by the domestic and social norms of society.
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