School of Social and Cultural Studies
Further information
Staff at the Centre for Women's Studies are engaged in a number of research projects, and welcome the opportunity for collaboration.
Current projects
- Australian feminist memory theorises and intervenes in the ways second wave Australian feminist activism is remembered, documented, historicized and collected as a significant historic social movement.
- Breastwork: maternal bodies in postmodernity aims to undo some of the complex meanings and histories of breastfeeding as they revolve around women’s bodies, the politics of sexuality, and the gendered use of public and private space in postmodern cityscapes.
- Gender, empire and race – cross-cultural relations in colonial Australia analyses the construction of gender roles and identities on Christian missions in central Australia.
- Women, religion and the body investigates the question of how these factors were interrelated in early modern Europe, with particular reference to the discourses of witchcraft and religious revival movements.
- Feminist writing examines particular forms of writing as significantly feminist in their politics and poetics.
- Gendered power in the Nassau family traces the dynamics of gendered power in the leading Dutch Protestant family Nassau-Orange, 1560- 1812.
- Gendered emotions in the early modern world focuses on the representation of gender and early modern emotions in contemporary museums and exhibitions.
University information
CRICOS Code: 00126G
