M Nash
Biographic Data
| ID | 18675 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Nash |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Nash |
| SIGNATURE | NASH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7429-4924 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 200 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
“The Only Almost Germ-Free Continent Left”
This article examines the role of pandemics and viruses in cultural perceptions of Antarctica over the past century. In the popular imagination, Antarctica has often been framed as a place of purity, refuge, and isolation. In a series of fiction and screen texts from the nineteenth century to the present, viruses feature prominently. The texts fall into two categories: narratives in which Antarctica is the sole source of safety in a pandemic-rava…
Challenges for implementation in diverse settings
Research in the UK suggests that multi-componential interventions focusing on language and pre-literacy skills can improve children’s reading and language skills. However, simple translations of such programmes may not produce equivalent effects in diverse communities. The reasons for this are multi-faceted and include factors beyond the rationale and content of the intervention programmes themselves. Understanding these factors is critical for c…
In/visible
It is now well‐established that science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) institutions globally should invest in building diverse and inclusive workforces. However, women of color remain underrepresented in STEMM in Australia and their organizational experiences are under‐researched. To address this gap, we used a qualitative approach to explore the complex intersections of race/ethnicity and gender that may contribute t…
Breaking the silence around blood
Drawing on qualitative interviews with female expeditioners in the Australian Antarctic Program, this article examines the additional labour involved in managing menstruation during remote Antarctic fieldwork. Unlike expeditioners working on a research station, fieldworkers rarely have consistent access to private toileting facilities or dedicated times/spaces to deal with their bodily excretions. However, being able to easily access toileting fa…
An exploration of perceptions of gender equity among Sage Athena SWAN self-assessment team members in a regional Australian university
Gender inequality in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine (STEMM) is well documented internationally. The Athena SWAN (AS) Charter was launched in the UK in 2005 to provide an impetus for positive cultural and structural changes to advance gender equality in UK universities. The Australian pilot of the AS Charter began in 2015 and is overseen by the Australian Academy of Sciences. Despite extensive engagement with AS over t…
The influence of paternal co-participation on girls’ participation in surfing, mountain biking, and skateboarding in regional Australia
In 2021, surfing and skateboarding are scheduled to join mountain-biking as Olympic sports for the first time, a classification that comes with requirements related to sex/gender equity. Yet, these sports, and action sports generally, continue to be male dominated as questions of performance and risk are framed around boys, men, and masculinities. This qualitative study explored the facilitators of 27 Australian girls’ participation in surfing, m…
Studying gender in the neoliberal, postfeminist university
In a neoliberal environment where university students are encouraged to study subjects and courses which will lead to specific job outcomes, this article explores which students undertake Women's and Gender Studies (WGS), why they undertake the degree, and what it teaches them. Drawing on interviews with students at a regional Australian university, this qualitative study examines the extent to which the university's Gender Studies cohort is post…
When I look in the bathroom mirror, I see all the women standing behind me
Leadership development programs (LDPs) are one response to the under-representation of women in leadership positions. This article evaluates Homeward Bound, a 12-month LDP for women in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM) fields that culminates in a three-week voyage to Antarctica. We evaluate the extent that the program supports key features of LDPs for women - including creating a safe, women-only environment, prov…
Homonormativity or queer disidentification? Rural Australian bisexual women's identity politics
Recent research shows that queer youth increasingly reject traditional sexual labels in favour of more fluid identifications. Despite well-rehearsed debates around queer identity politics under neoliberalism, there is a dearth of research examining how queerness is understood and expressed in rural Australia. To address this knowledge gap, this article examines bisexual and queer young women's understandings of sexual labels in Tasmania, Australi…
What does inclusive sexual and reproductive healthcare look like for bisexual, pansexual and queer women? Findings from an exploratory study from Tasmania, Australia
Increased awareness of the health disparities faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people has driven the need for LGBTIQ-inclusive medical practices internationally. However, despite bisexual, pansexual and queer women's increased sexual health risks and reduced engagement with health services, there is little qualitative research examining their healthcare experiences. In addition, healthcare practitioners co…
Caring during Covid‐19
COVID-19 is dramatically reconfiguring paid work and care. Emerging evidence in the global media suggests that academic women with caring responsibilities are being disproportionately impacted. This article fills a key knowledge gap by examining how Australian universities are supporting academics to manage remote work and caring during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted a desktop analysis of public information about remote working and care from…
Tasmanian healthcare professionals' & students' capacity for LGBTI + inclusive care
The health disparities and care needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI+) patients are becoming well known. However, healthcare practitioners (HCPs) and medical students across the Global North report limited understanding of this population and express concern about their capacity to meet the needs of LGBTI + patients. To address these gaps in literature and practice, this study draws on qualitative interviews with 12 cl…
Gendered Power Relations and Sexual Harassment in Antarctic Science in the Age of #MeToo
Antarctica is a remote, historically masculine place. It is also aworkplace, and the human interactions there are connected topower structures and gendered expectations. Today, more thanhalf early career polar researchers are women. However, womenin Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine(STEMM) are also more likely than men to experience sexualharassment during fieldwork making questions of safety, power,and harassment pertin…
Educating queer sexual citizens? A feminist exploration of bisexual and queer young women’s sex education in Tasmania, Australia
There is a well-documented absence of inclusive school-based sex and relationships education (SRE) for Australian lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth. Moreover, relatively few studies specifically examine how bisexual and queer-identifying young Australian women experience SRE. This qualitative study addresses the gap and contributes new perspectives by examining bisexual and queer young women’s experiences of school-base…
I was completely oblivious to gender
Women are under-represented in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) fields worldwide, particularly in leadership positions. We explore this phenomenon by examining the leadership experiences of 25 women who were actively seeking to enhance their leadership capacities in STEMM fields from five countries in the Global North. We argue that women in this study seemed to be caught in an ‘ideological dilemma’ between recog…
Exploring research relationships and other ethical challenges of participatory visual research in remote environments
This critical reflection provides fellow researchers with insights into the ethical challenges of using visual methods in remote environments. We draw on Fine’s notion of ‘working the hyphens’ to explore the complexities of studying a leadership program for women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) on a ship in Antarctica. We reflect on how our researcher identities and relationships with participants shaped the …
From 'Tramp Stamps' to Traditional Sleeves
n this article I use a feminist autobiographical approach to present my ‘tattoo narrative’ as a gendered, embodied account in which I map out key moments in my life over two decades through the images inscribed on my skin. Specifically, I examine how my bodily modifications have magnified the social responses to my body as a woman. For example, as a teenager, I acquired a naval piercing and trendy ‘feminine’, discretely located tattoos to satisfy…
White pregnant bodies on the Australian beach
In this paper, I discuss a group of photographs that feature a place intrinsically related with Australian women’s photographic memories of pregnancy – the beach. Building on feminist interdisciplinary studies of family photography, I argue that family photographs of pregnancy contribute to alternative ways of knowing and interpreting the Australian beach landscape and the entangled social relations and interactions within these spaces. Data are …
Exploring Methodological Challenges of Using Participant-Produced Digital Video Diaries in Antarctica
Technological advancements have created new methods for conducting research. In this article, we explore the benefits and challenges of using participant-produced video diaries as a research method in a remote environment. Participant-produced video diaries provide rich ethnographic data of lived experiences. Moreover, video diaries allow data collection without researchers needing to be physically present, which facilitates research in remote lo…
It’s just good to get a bit of man-talk out in the open”
Fathers play a significant role in shaping family life. Yet Australian mens transitions to fatherhood have been neglected in research and in antenatal support/education programs. Drawing on contemporary theories of masculinity, this article explores how a cohort of 25 first-time fathers in Tasmania, Australia, experienced 2 different father-only antenatal support/education groups. In particular, I was interested in how men negotiate masculinity a…
Navigating unintelligibility
Australian public health promotion positions safe sex as a biomedical, heteronormative concept. Consequently, there is a dearth of scholarly research examining queer young women’s sexual health. To fill this knowledge gap, this article considers how Australian bisexual and queer young women understand ‘safe sex’ and conceptualise ‘good’ sexual citizenship. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 15 participants in Tasmania, findings reveal that al…
Squeezed between identity politics and intersectionality
With the rise of 'globesity', fat activism and Fat Studies have become political players in countering negative stereotypes and the devaluation of fat bodies. Both groups are diverse, yet share a common goal to celebrate and/or accept fatness, and challenge practices and discourses that reinforce 'normal' bodies (such as diets, 'fat talk' and medicalisation). In this article, we reflect on our engagement with a Fat Studies conference, and critica…
The Challenges of Participant Photography
Photovoice and photo-elicitation are two common methods of participant photography used in health research. Although participatory photography has many benefits, this critical reflection provides fellow researchers with insights into the methodological and ethical challenges faced when using such methods. In this article, we critically reflect on two studies that used participatory photography in different cultural contexts. The first study used …
I just think something like the 'Bubs and Pubs' class is what men should be having
Increasingly in international research and popular media a growing interest in men and fatherhood is discernible. These changes occur as other aspects of the socio-economic world shift, necessitating the need to re-address how caring and paid work responsibilities are configured and practised. However, interest in men's experiences as fathers has emerged in ways which reflect cultural assumptions and practices associated with dominant understandi…
Gender on the ropes
This paper documents how I fought for a place as a boxer in a regional Tasmanian boxing gym over a 30 month period. This work builds on existing ethnographic accounts that argue that, for women, becoming a boxer is more than just a matter of developing a fit body and physical skill - it is a continual project of negotiating gendered identity. Using an analytic autoethnographic methodology and drawing on contemporary theories of masculinity, I sha…
Caring during Covid‐19
COVID-19 is dramatically reconfiguring paid work and care. Emerging evidence in the global media suggests that academic women with caring responsibilities are being disproportionately impacted. This article fills a key knowledge gap by examining how Australian universities are supporting academics to manage remote work and caring during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted a desktop analysis of public information about remote working and care from…
You don't train for a marathon sitting on the couch”
The Challenges of Participant Photography
Photovoice and photo-elicitation are two common methods of participant photography used in health research. Although participatory photography has many benefits, this critical reflection provides fellow researchers with insights into the methodological and ethical challenges faced when using such methods. In this article, we critically reflect on two studies that used participatory photography in different cultural contexts. The first study used …
Twenty-Something Girls v. Thirty-Something Sex And The City Women
Lena Dunhams cable television series Girls is a candid and comical look at the lives of four youngwomen living in Brooklyn, New York. Following in the footsteps of the earlier post-feminist, womancentredtelevision series, Sex and the City (SATC), Girls explores numerous feminist themes centringon an exploration of what it is like to be a young white woman in contemporary US society. Yetwhat kind of post-feminist narrative is being constructed in …
Weighty matters
Feminist scholars have comprehensively examined why women suffer from body image woes (see Bordo, 1993 ). On the surface, it seems strange to think that pregnant women fear ‘fat’. After all, pregnancy is a time when women are supposed to gain weight. This article draws on longitudinal narrative data to examine experiences of weight gain and ‘fatness’ in early periods of pregnancy among women in Melbourne, Australia. Informants’ accounts demonstra…
Selling Health and Fitness to Sporty Sisters
In this paper, I conduct a feminist multimodal critical discourse analysis (FMCDA) of the Lorna Jane (LJ) retail website ( www.lornajane.com.au ), an Australian fitness fashion company, to examine the discursive strategies used by the company to authorize a particular notion of “active living” for women. Specifically, I shall examine how the semiotic choices on the LJ website signify key discourses and themes related to health and fitness and how…
I was completely oblivious to gender
Women are under-represented in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) fields worldwide, particularly in leadership positions. We explore this phenomenon by examining the leadership experiences of 25 women who were actively seeking to enhance their leadership capacities in STEMM fields from five countries in the Global North. We argue that women in this study seemed to be caught in an ‘ideological dilemma’ between recog…
Squeezed between identity politics and intersectionality
With the rise of 'globesity', fat activism and Fat Studies have become political players in countering negative stereotypes and the devaluation of fat bodies. Both groups are diverse, yet share a common goal to celebrate and/or accept fatness, and challenge practices and discourses that reinforce 'normal' bodies (such as diets, 'fat talk' and medicalisation). In this article, we reflect on our engagement with a Fat Studies conference, and critica…
Picturing mothers
The aim of this qualitative study is to explore how ‘photovoice’ and participant-produced photographs can be used to think critically about pregnant embodiment. Twelve pregnant women in Hobart, Australia were given digital cameras and interviewed four times (three times during pregnancy and once postpartum) about photos that were taken to represent their experiences of pregnancy. This article examines narratives and photographs related to pregnan…
Navigating unintelligibility
Australian public health promotion positions safe sex as a biomedical, heteronormative concept. Consequently, there is a dearth of scholarly research examining queer young women’s sexual health. To fill this knowledge gap, this article considers how Australian bisexual and queer young women understand ‘safe sex’ and conceptualise ‘good’ sexual citizenship. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 15 participants in Tasmania, findings reveal that al…
Gender on the ropes
This paper documents how I fought for a place as a boxer in a regional Tasmanian boxing gym over a 30 month period. This work builds on existing ethnographic accounts that argue that, for women, becoming a boxer is more than just a matter of developing a fit body and physical skill - it is a continual project of negotiating gendered identity. Using an analytic autoethnographic methodology and drawing on contemporary theories of masculinity, I sha…
Shapes of motherhood
This article contributes to, and extends, feminist and visual sociological scholarship by examining how a sample of pregnant women in Australia documented their postpartum experiences through digital photographs. It is argued that photography is powerful in helping women to articulate the ways in which subjectivities and bodily boundaries are reframed in the postpartum period. Dressing is used as a key example to demonstrate this. A further aim o…
In/visible
It is now well‐established that science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) institutions globally should invest in building diverse and inclusive workforces. However, women of color remain underrepresented in STEMM in Australia and their organizational experiences are under‐researched. To address this gap, we used a qualitative approach to explore the complex intersections of race/ethnicity and gender that may contribute t…
Brides N' Bumps
This paper accounts for the rise of a monolithic contemporary post-feminist pregnant bridal identity that is upheld and sold as the “ultimate” pleasure of femininity in Australia, the US, and the UK. I shall critically analyse the enfranchisement of the contemporary pregnant bride as a “new” consumer identity using the purchase of a maternity wedding dress as a key example. I argue that as pregnancy is already an experience deeply embedded in the…
Working out’ for two
In this article, I consider the distinctly classed places/spaces in which affluent Australian pregnant women physically maintain their bodies through aerobics. The case study described is drawn from data obtained between 2006 and 2008 in a longitudinal study examining feelings about body image and ‘fatness’ in a sample of pregnant women in Melbourne, Australia. The ways in which pregnant bodies are disciplined within gym spaces are discussed thro…
Gendered Power Relations and Sexual Harassment in Antarctic Science in the Age of #MeToo
Antarctica is a remote, historically masculine place. It is also aworkplace, and the human interactions there are connected topower structures and gendered expectations. Today, more thanhalf early career polar researchers are women. However, womenin Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine(STEMM) are also more likely than men to experience sexualharassment during fieldwork making questions of safety, power,and harassment pertin…
Exploring Methodological Challenges of Using Participant-Produced Digital Video Diaries in Antarctica
Technological advancements have created new methods for conducting research. In this article, we explore the benefits and challenges of using participant-produced video diaries as a research method in a remote environment. Participant-produced video diaries provide rich ethnographic data of lived experiences. Moreover, video diaries allow data collection without researchers needing to be physically present, which facilitates research in remote lo…
The influence of paternal co-participation on girls’ participation in surfing, mountain biking, and skateboarding in regional Australia
In 2021, surfing and skateboarding are scheduled to join mountain-biking as Olympic sports for the first time, a classification that comes with requirements related to sex/gender equity. Yet, these sports, and action sports generally, continue to be male dominated as questions of performance and risk are framed around boys, men, and masculinities. This qualitative study explored the facilitators of 27 Australian girls’ participation in surfing, m…
I just think something like the 'Bubs and Pubs' class is what men should be having
Increasingly in international research and popular media a growing interest in men and fatherhood is discernible. These changes occur as other aspects of the socio-economic world shift, necessitating the need to re-address how caring and paid work responsibilities are configured and practised. However, interest in men's experiences as fathers has emerged in ways which reflect cultural assumptions and practices associated with dominant understandi…
White pregnant bodies on the Australian beach
In this paper, I discuss a group of photographs that feature a place intrinsically related with Australian women’s photographic memories of pregnancy – the beach. Building on feminist interdisciplinary studies of family photography, I argue that family photographs of pregnancy contribute to alternative ways of knowing and interpreting the Australian beach landscape and the entangled social relations and interactions within these spaces. Data are …
It’s just good to get a bit of man-talk out in the open”
Fathers play a significant role in shaping family life. Yet Australian mens transitions to fatherhood have been neglected in research and in antenatal support/education programs. Drawing on contemporary theories of masculinity, this article explores how a cohort of 25 first-time fathers in Tasmania, Australia, experienced 2 different father-only antenatal support/education groups. In particular, I was interested in how men negotiate masculinity a…
Indulgence versus restraint
This article focuses on ‘health’ discourses in pregnancy as interpretive repertoires for shaping embodiment and creating ‘good’ mothers. Drawing on qualitative data, I argue that pregnancy is an extended period of biomedical and cultural surveillance and intensive self-regulation and government. I examine experiences of ‘cravings’ and restricting eating from my sample of pregnant Australian informants to demonstrate this. Eating was also a socio-…
Reflections on teaching gender to Australian sociology undergraduates in the neoliberal postfeminist classroom
This article doubles as a reflection piece and a primer in thinking about how to negotiate teaching gender in an evolving institutional climate. I argue that teaching gender in sociology sits at odds with the increasing neoliberal and postfeminist discourses, attitudes, and economics that currently structure Australian universities. First, I locate the context in which teachers of gender in sociology find themselves in Australia with an emphasis …
Vampyr and the Fantastic
Journal Article Vampyr and the Fantastic Get access Mark Nash Mark Nash Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 17, Issue 3, Autumn 1976, Pages 29–67, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/17.3.29 Published: 01 October 1976
Tradition in Tension in Kelantan
Tradition in Tension in Kelantan
Film Culture
Film Culture Get access Edward Buscombe, Edward Buscombe Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark Nash, Mark Nash Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar George Lellis, George Lellis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Colin McArthur Colin McArthur Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 16, Is…
Vampyr and the Fantastic
Journal Article Vampyr and the Fantastic Get access Mark Nash Mark Nash Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 17, Issue 3, Autumn 1976, Pages 29–67, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/17.3.29 Published: 01 October 1976
Breaking with Old Ideas
Journal Article Breaking with Old Ideas: Recent Chinese Films Get access Rosalind Delmar, Rosalind Delmar Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark Nash Mark Nash Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 17, Issue 4, Winter 1976, Pages 67–84, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/17.4.67 Published: 01 December 1976
Film
Journal Article Film: ‘History/Production/Memory’ Get access Mark Nash, Mark Nash Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Steve Neale Steve Neale Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 18, Issue 4, Winter 1977, Pages 77–91, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/18.4.77 Published: 01 December 1977
Problems of Independent Cinema
Problems of Independent Cinema Get access Marc Karlin, Marc Karlin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Claire Johnston, Claire Johnston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark Nash, Mark Nash Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, V…
Fundamentalist Islam
Research Note
Journal Article Research Note: Searching for Working-Class Philadelphia in the Records of the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society Get access Michael Nash Michael Nash Hagley Museum and Library, P.O. Box 3630, Wilmington, DE 19807 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 29, Issue 3, Spring 1996, Pages 683–687, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/29.3.683 Published: 01 March 1996
The Sydney Cove shipwreck project
Lost in 1797 during a voyage from India to Australia, the wreck of the merchant ship Sydney Cove was rediscovered in 1977. A project to excavate and present material from the site was carried out by the designated management agency during the 1990s. The work has provided a unique insight into the merchant ships and cargoes that were vital to the early development of the Australian colonies. This paper presents a summary of the project upon its co…
Forgotten Radicals
Journal Article Forgotten Radicals: Communists in the Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1919–1950 Get access Forgotten Radicals: Communists in the Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1919–1950. By Howard Walter T.. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2005. xiv, 268 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn0-7618-3090-1. Paper, $38.00, isbn0-7618-3091-X.) Michael Nash Michael Nash Tamiment Library New York UniversityNew York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
You don't train for a marathon sitting on the couch”
Brides N' Bumps
This paper accounts for the rise of a monolithic contemporary post-feminist pregnant bridal identity that is upheld and sold as the “ultimate” pleasure of femininity in Australia, the US, and the UK. I shall critically analyse the enfranchisement of the contemporary pregnant bride as a “new” consumer identity using the purchase of a maternity wedding dress as a key example. I argue that as pregnancy is already an experience deeply embedded in the…
Working out’ for two
In this article, I consider the distinctly classed places/spaces in which affluent Australian pregnant women physically maintain their bodies through aerobics. The case study described is drawn from data obtained between 2006 and 2008 in a longitudinal study examining feelings about body image and ‘fatness’ in a sample of pregnant women in Melbourne, Australia. The ways in which pregnant bodies are disciplined within gym spaces are discussed thro…
Weighty matters
Feminist scholars have comprehensively examined why women suffer from body image woes (see Bordo, 1993 ). On the surface, it seems strange to think that pregnant women fear ‘fat’. After all, pregnancy is a time when women are supposed to gain weight. This article draws on longitudinal narrative data to examine experiences of weight gain and ‘fatness’ in early periods of pregnancy among women in Melbourne, Australia. Informants’ accounts demonstra…
Indulgence versus restraint
This article focuses on ‘health’ discourses in pregnancy as interpretive repertoires for shaping embodiment and creating ‘good’ mothers. Drawing on qualitative data, I argue that pregnancy is an extended period of biomedical and cultural surveillance and intensive self-regulation and government. I examine experiences of ‘cravings’ and restricting eating from my sample of pregnant Australian informants to demonstrate this. Eating was also a socio-…
Reflections on teaching gender to Australian sociology undergraduates in the neoliberal postfeminist classroom
This article doubles as a reflection piece and a primer in thinking about how to negotiate teaching gender in an evolving institutional climate. I argue that teaching gender in sociology sits at odds with the increasing neoliberal and postfeminist discourses, attitudes, and economics that currently structure Australian universities. First, I locate the context in which teachers of gender in sociology find themselves in Australia with an emphasis …
On Fat Stigma, Prejudice, and Strategies for Resistance. Review of Acceptable Prejudice? Fat, Rhetoric and Social Justice , by Lonie McMichael
In Acceptable Prejudice, Lonie McMichael exposes the many facets of fat prejudice in U.S. society, arguing that cultural transformation is in order. Over the course of an impressive 21 chapters, Mc
Breasted experiences in pregnancy
Drawing on qualitative data from a sample of pregnant women in Hobart, Australia this article uses ‘feminist’ ‘memory work’ and the ‘photovoice’ method as frames for discussing the ways in which interviews and participant-produced photographs may be used to trace and understand pregnant embodiment. I argue that digital photographs taken by women during pregnancy can reveal important information about how they negotiate their own experiences of br…
Introduction to the special issue
Picturing mothers
The aim of this qualitative study is to explore how ‘photovoice’ and participant-produced photographs can be used to think critically about pregnant embodiment. Twelve pregnant women in Hobart, Australia were given digital cameras and interviewed four times (three times during pregnancy and once postpartum) about photos that were taken to represent their experiences of pregnancy. This article examines narratives and photographs related to pregnan…
Twenty-Something Girls v. Thirty-Something Sex And The City Women
Lena Dunhams cable television series Girls is a candid and comical look at the lives of four youngwomen living in Brooklyn, New York. Following in the footsteps of the earlier post-feminist, womancentredtelevision series, Sex and the City (SATC), Girls explores numerous feminist themes centringon an exploration of what it is like to be a young white woman in contemporary US society. Yetwhat kind of post-feminist narrative is being constructed in …
Shapes of motherhood
This article contributes to, and extends, feminist and visual sociological scholarship by examining how a sample of pregnant women in Australia documented their postpartum experiences through digital photographs. It is argued that photography is powerful in helping women to articulate the ways in which subjectivities and bodily boundaries are reframed in the postpartum period. Dressing is used as a key example to demonstrate this. A further aim o…
Selling Health and Fitness to Sporty Sisters
In this paper, I conduct a feminist multimodal critical discourse analysis (FMCDA) of the Lorna Jane (LJ) retail website ( www.lornajane.com.au ), an Australian fitness fashion company, to examine the discursive strategies used by the company to authorize a particular notion of “active living” for women. Specifically, I shall examine how the semiotic choices on the LJ website signify key discourses and themes related to health and fitness and how…
It’s just good to get a bit of man-talk out in the open”
Fathers play a significant role in shaping family life. Yet Australian mens transitions to fatherhood have been neglected in research and in antenatal support/education programs. Drawing on contemporary theories of masculinity, this article explores how a cohort of 25 first-time fathers in Tasmania, Australia, experienced 2 different father-only antenatal support/education groups. In particular, I was interested in how men negotiate masculinity a…
Navigating unintelligibility
Australian public health promotion positions safe sex as a biomedical, heteronormative concept. Consequently, there is a dearth of scholarly research examining queer young women’s sexual health. To fill this knowledge gap, this article considers how Australian bisexual and queer young women understand ‘safe sex’ and conceptualise ‘good’ sexual citizenship. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 15 participants in Tasmania, findings reveal that al…
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