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Knowing Bodies: Ethical Issues in Critical Fat Studies
Emerati Women: GWSI Postgrad Jillian Schedneck speaks with Radio National
Sandra breaks down the barriers in a silent world
Hot off the Press: Latest book publications
2010 University Doctoral Research Medal
Knowing Bodies: Ethical Issues in Critical Fat Studies
Gender, Work and Social Inquiry, and The Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender are hosting a one day symposium to explore the ethical and methodological difficulties entailed in qualitative research in obesity and critical fat studies.
The symposium aims to consider how cultural meanings associated with obesity are silenced and negotiated in the research process. How do researchers deal with what goes unsaid, and the moral judgements that accompany discursive categorization of obesity? What are the relationships between public health discourses, researcher and participant bodies, and the ways in which a collective knowingness about 'excessive' bodies underpins methodoligical engagement?
Our keynote speaker is Dr Samantha Murray, Lecturer in Critical & Cultural Studies in the Department of Media, Music, Communication & Cultural Studies at Macquarie University. As well as being co-editor of the 'somatechnics' journal, Sam has written a number of articles and books including The 'Fat' Female Body (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), and the forthcoming Fat Panic and Disciplined Embodiment: 'Health' and Bodily Aesthetics in the Management of Obesity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
Other confirmed guest speakers include:
- Professor Fiona Verity, Social and Policy Studies, Flinders University
- Dr Megan Warin, Gender, Work and Social Inquiry, University of Adelaide
- Dr Jessie Gunson, Gender, Work and Social Inquiry, University of Adelaide
- Tara Bates, PhD scholar, Gender, Work and Social Inquiry, University of Adelaide
This is a free event and a programme with full details of all speakers will be available shortly. Click to download the flyer for further details.
Date: June 20th
Time: 10am - 4pm
Venue: Ira Raymond Roon, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide
Emerati Women: GWSI Postgrad Jillian Schedneck speaks with Radio National
Jillian Schedneck, GWSI PhD candidate and author of Abu Dhabi Days, Dubai Nights spent two years as a University English teacher in the United Arab Emirates. On 5th May 2012, Jillian spoke with Radio National about her experience and those of the Emerati girls she came to know during her stay in the UAE.
To listen to the interview follow the links at Radio National.
Sandra breaks down the barriers in a silent world
In 2011, Sandra Hoopmann completed a Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) in the Discipline of Gender, Work and Social Inquiry after earlier obtaining a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Anthropology, and Media and Communications in 2008. This achievement for Sandra makes her the first profoundly-Deaf person to graduate with First Class Honours in the University's 138-year history.
Sandra has spent the past 11 years studying part-time at the University of Adelaide with the help of sign-language interpreters, who worked with her during lectures, tutorials and meetings with supervisors.
After graduation Sandra hopes to further develop her writing skills and make "valuable contributions to Adelaide's Deaf community", through community work, research and teaching.
To read the full writeup of Sandra's story click the link to download a PDF version of the Adelaidean Article by Candy Gibson.
Hot off the press: latest book publications
Pam Papadelos' From Revolution to Deconstruction: Exploring Feminist Theory and Practice in Australia (Peter Lang 2010) outlines the benefits of deconstructive theory for feminism praxis. In addition, the establishment and theoretical content of Women's Studies at Australian universities is explored in relation to deconstruction.
Tomoko Hidaka's book Salaryman Masculinity: Continuity and Change in Hegemonic Masculinity in Japan (2010) was recently launched by Professor Chilla Bulbeck.
This is an important volume offering new insights into the generational transformation of Japanese hegemonic masculinity. Drawing on thirty-nine life-histories of three generations of sararAman (salaryman) each working, or having worked for large companies, this book is an in-depth study of Japanese salaryman masculinity, that is, the 'hegemonic masculinity' in Japan.
Megan Warin's 2009 book Abject Relations: Everyday Worlds of Anorexia (Rutgers University Press) takes an anthropological lens to anorexia, arguing that concepts of relatedness and embodiment are central experiences to this culturally embedded phenomenon.
http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/Abject_Relations.html
Dr Kathie Muir's latest book Worth Fighting For: Inside the Your Rights at Work Campaign, published in 2008 by the University of NSW Press examines the Australian union campaign that aimed to overturn the work choices legislation brought in by the Coalition government in mid-2000.
http://www.unswpress.com.au/isbn/9781921410772.htm
2010 University Doctoral Research Medal
During the 2011 April Graduation Ceremony, Gender, Work and Social Inquiry PhD graduate Dr Sally Gibson was awarded a University Doctoral Research Medal for her thesis Creating Controversy: Sex Education and the Christian Right in South Australia.
Recent PhD completions
Dr Pauline McLoughlin and Dr Penelope Eate graduated in the most recent 2012 ceremonies.
Dr Pauline McLoughlin is now working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Centre for Housing Research at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Dr McLoughlin's work centres on a study exploring young people's housing choices and future welfare. The study is part of a larger three year project called 'Mind the Housing Wealth Gap.'
GWSI Congratulates Pauline and Penelope for their outstanding achievements.
Dr Toni Delany graduated in the 2011 Ceremonies. Of her experience in GWSI Toni recalls:
"Throughout my studies in GWSI I was given the freedom to develop and explore my own ideas while also having the support of approachable and knowledgeable academics who are experts in their fields. My interest in gender and health, combined with the strong encouragement offered by the GWSI staff, motivated me to continue my studies with GWSI at postgraduate level where I was given the opportunity to focus even more closely on investigating the links between society, gender and wellbeing.
I am now employed by the South Australian Community Health Research unit at Flinders University. I am managing an NHMRC funded project that is evaluating the Health in All Policies approach to healthy public policy in South Australia."
(For thesis topics see the postgraduate page.)
Undergraduate Prizes 2011
Every year the Discipline of Gender, Work and Social Inquiry awards a number of prizes to excellent students undertaking courses in the Discipline.
On 13 April 2012 the following prizes were awarded to students for their study during 2011:
The YWCA of Adelaide Prize in Women's Studies
YWCA of Adelaide is the leading voice for young women in South Australia. The not for profit community organisation provides advocacy, support, empowerment and leadership opportunities for young women under 30 through services, programs and campaigns. As part of the world's oldest and largest women led membership movement - the YWCA - they have been working with and for young women in Adelaide since 1880.
Each year the YWCA of Adelaide awards a prize to the student whose academic performance, in the opinion of the examiners, shows her/him to be the most outstanding student in Level I Gender Studies courses.
For 2011 the prize was awarded to Kaeli Convey.
The Zonta Club of Adelaide Prize for Gender Studies
The Zonta Club of Adelaide Inc. is part of Zonta International, a worldwide service organisation of over 33,000 executives in business and the professions working together advancing the status of women worldwide.
The Zonta Club of Adelaide awards an annual prize to encourage and support feminist scholarship important to the advancement of women. The prize is awarded to the Level II student whose academic performance, in the opinion of the examiners, show her/him to be the most outstanding student in Level II Gender Studies courses.
For 2011 the prize was awarded to Alice Mussared.
The Soroptimist International Prize for Gender Studies
The Southern, Adelaide, Eastern, Torrens and Naracoorte Districts of Soroptimist International of South Australia have provided for an annual prize to encourage and support feminist scholarship important to the advancement of women. The prize is awarded to the student whose academic performance, in the opinion of the examiners, show her/him to be the most outstanding student in Level II Gender Studies courses.
For 2011 the prize was awarded to Roxanne Gillespie.
The Lia Watson Memorial Prize
Lia Watson was a dedicated, intelligent and free thinking student in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences who graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1997, majoring in Women's Studies and English. Lia possessed strength of character that always led her to achieve success despite the pressure of working in numerous jobs to support herself and maintaining the many and close friendships she cherished.
Her close friends and family have donated funds to the University to establish an annual prize in the Discipline of Gender, Work & Social Inquiry in her memory, for the purpose of encouraging academic excellence and dedication in the study of second and third year Gender Studies subjects in the Discipline. The prize shall be awarded annually to a third year student who, in the opinion of the Gender Studies staff of the Discipline of Gender, Work & Social Inquiry has achieved a consistently high level in both Level II and Level III Gender Studies courses, despite employment and other distracting pressures - the situation of Lia Watson.
For 2011 the prize was awarded to Aradia Sayner.
The Business and Professional Women Prize
The Business and Professional Women's Federation has provided for an annual prize to encourage and support feminist scholarship important to the advancement of women. This prize is awarded to the female student whose academic achievement, in the opinion of the examiners, shows her to be the most outstanding female student in the Honours Gender Studies course. For 2011 the prize was awarded to Sandra Hoopmann.
GWSI congratulates these exceptional students and wishes them a successful future.
Postgraduate Achievements
Refereed Journal Articles
Bartholomaeus, Clare (forthcoming) '"I'm not allowed wrestling stuff": Hegemonic masculinity and primary school boys' Journal of Sociology.
Bartholomaeus, Clare (2011) 'What it Means to be "Manly": Gender, Sport, and Primary School Students' Outskirts: Feminisms Along the Edge, 24. http://www.chloe.uwa.edu.au/outskirts/archive/volume24/bartholomaeus
Conference Presentations
Bates, Tara (2011) '"Who cares what the DSM says?": reorienting questions of power and docility concerning psychiatrists' attitudes towards the DSM', paper presented to The Medicalization of Sex Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 28-30 April.
