Catherine Driscoll
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 529408 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Catherine Driscoll |
| NOMBRES | Catherine |
| APELLIDO | Driscoll |
| FIRMA | DRISCOLL C |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9842-0534 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 126 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Can human nature be saved
Transforming Boys Studies
The Energies of Boyhood
A history of age-based film classification in Japan
This article provides a detailed history of film classification, or age ratings, in Japan. It describes historical precedents for Eirin, the agency responsible for film classification in Japan, and key moments in Eirin’s organisational formation and reform. Drawing on multi-sited archival research and interviews with Eirin staff, the article recognises the importance of the US Production Code Authority as a model for Eirin’s formation during the …
One for the boys
There is no shortage of attention paid to boys. Nor is there any lack of privilege afforded them collectively as boys. Yet, for obvious reasons, boys have not been a major focus of either gender st
Stranger Things
Contemporary media discourse suggests that feminists exclusively understand boys and the experience of boyhood through such frameworks as ‘toxic masculinity’, positioning boys as the default inheritors of a ‘patriarchal dividend’. Media narratives might be expected to favour such agonistic oppositions, but the dominant forms of scholarship on boys also often take this line, or position boys as subjects at risk of harm done by either the contempor…
Girls and Boys
In the name of the nation
This article examines the relationship between exceptionalism and nationhood in media classification. The history of age-ratings is an international one, and the present challenges associated with digital media circulation are similarly international. We argue that the nation nevertheless provides an appropriate frame for understanding age-rating by attending to the ways national agencies have struggled to articulate the specificity of their work…
Chinese feminists on social media
This article considers the importance of social media to contemporary Chinese feminism, in the process introducing two important groups, Feminist Voice and Women’s Awakening, who have used social media platforms for their activism in the past few years. Various online strategies have been taken up by their young members to ensure the best outcome for their advocacy. In particular, these feminists use social media to articulate a specific presence…
Meaghan
Editorial by Chris Healy, Katrina Schlunke, Prudence Black, Stephen Muecke, and Catherine Driscoll
Sociobiology
E. O. Wilson first coined the term “Sociobiology” as the title of his (1975) book, and defined it as “the systematic study of the biological basis of behavior.” Sociobiology had its origins in ethology and behavioral ecology, but Wilson's controversial and speculative writings about the evolution of human behavior led to an academic conflict known as the “sociobiology wars.” As a consequence, new terms began to be used to refer to the evolutionar…
Cultural Sustainability in Rural Communities
Memoirs set in the rural environment have a long history in Australia. More recently, though, a genre of popular accounts, written by women and describing their move to country settings from the city, has been identified and labelled farm lit, rural romance or chook lit. The lit appended to farm and chook marks typological connections to chick lit, a genre that charts the romantic tribulations of contemporary single urban women in a comedic manne…
The Evolutionary Culture Concepts
Most attempts to define culture as used in the cultural evolution literature treat culture as a single phenomenon that can be given a single nondisjunctive definition. In this article I argue that, really, cultural evolutionists employ a variety of distinct but closely related concepts of culture. I show how the main prominent attempts to define a culture concept fail to properly capture all the uses of “culture” employed in cultural evolutionary…
Teaching Cultural Studies; Teaching Stuart Hall
I belong to a generation of cultural studies researchers for whom Stuart Hall was not the primary voice defining the field as I first encountered it. He was not even among the first wave of writers that I read or heard discussed as doing 'cultural studies'. Instead, I came to Hall's work from a distance defined by the history of cultural studies as a discipline; first by the diffusion of some of its most important interventions through other fiel…
Getting a life
“Medium” signifies first of all an intermediary. The import of the word “means” is the same. They are the middle, the intervening, things through which something now remote is brought to pass. Yet not all means are media. There are two kinds of means. One kind is external to that which is accomplished; the other kind is taken up into the consequences produced and remains immanent in them.... [The] moment we say “media,” we refer to means that are…
HBO's Girls
The HBO series Girls, created by and starring filmmaker Lena Dunham, has been praised for revealing the uncertainties and contradictions produced by the apparent independence of many contemporary young women. It has also been condemned for focusing on girls who use that independence for self-indulgent complaint and celebrate their own objectification. Both feminist and not-so-feminist responses to its promotion, and to the subsequent success of t…
Nowhere to Go, Nothing to Do
This article explores the figure of the bored country girl that appears widely in popular culture but also in girls studies and rural studies through ethnographic research in Australian country towns. While the presumption that country girls lack resources and opportunities for entertainment and leisure is in many ways empirically valid, this problem's articulation in girls' lives also offers an important perspective from which to ask what boredo…
Subjects of Distance
The rural is widely associated with traditions that modernity is presumed to disrupt or displace. But rurality is an idea produced by modernity, and endlessly engaged in and by dialogues about modernization. This paper considers the figure of the country girl as an image of distance from modernity. Insofar as she is always coming from the outside of a presumed modern identity and experience that is fixed by its urbanity, the country girl in Austr…
The Philosophy of Human Evolution
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The mystique of the young girl
The collective Tiqqun's 2001 tract, Raw Materials for a Theory of the YoungGirl, in which they stress the way modern girl culture represents the triumph of capitalism, has recently drawn fresh attention. Here I consider the argument about girls made in this text and its perhaps surprising relevance to contemporary feminist accounts of girlhood and girl culture
Don, Betty and Jackie Kennedy
Why is it that we watch Mad Men and think it represents a period? Flashes of patterned wallpaper, whiskey neat, babies born that are never mentioned, contact lining for kitchen drawers, Ayn Rand, polaroids, skinny ties, Hilton hotels, Walter Cronkite, and a time when Don Draper can ask 'What do women want?' and dry old Roger Sterling can reply 'Who Cares?' This essay explores the embrace of period detail in Mad Men finding it to be both loving an…
Convergence Culture and the Legacy of Feminist Cultural Studies
This essay elaborates upon some of the feminist legacies underwriting the work ofHenry Jenkins, particularly the 2006 book, Convergence Culture, to develop a setof priorities for media and Cultural Studies research following in its wake.Focusing on critical uses of the term 'subculture', and its convenient fit withInternet scholarship to date, and moving to an analysis of the notion of'participatory culture', we question how easily the practices …
Fatal Attraction? Why Sperber’s Attractors do not Prevent Cumulative Cultural Evolution
In order to explain why cultural traits remain stable despite the error-proneness of social learning, Dan Sperber has proposed that human psychology and ecology lead to cultural traits being transformed in the direction of attractors. This means that simple-minded Darwinian models of cultural evolution are not appropriate. Some scientists and philosophers have been concerned that Sperber’s notion of attractors might show more than this, that attr…
Chanel
This article considers the importance of fashion to both modernism and modernity and the importance of modernism to understanding fashion. It does so through a close consideration of the example of Chanel—not the biographical woman Chanel, or even the label Chanel, but rather the Modernist moment in fashion we have come to call “Chanel.” The position of ground-breaking innovator in the field of women's fashion that is widely assigned to Chanel is…
On popular music
This essay argues for the significance of thinking about the continuity between modernism and Cultural Studies in understanding how students respond to the key themes and approaches of Cultural Studies. It takes the experience of using the work of Theodor Adorno to introduce students to what Cultural Studies has to say about popular music as a central example to discuss the ongoing relevance of modernist debates to the field of popular music stud…
Chinese feminists on social media
This article considers the importance of social media to contemporary Chinese feminism, in the process introducing two important groups, Feminist Voice and Women’s Awakening, who have used social media platforms for their activism in the past few years. Various online strategies have been taken up by their young members to ensure the best outcome for their advocacy. In particular, these feminists use social media to articulate a specific presence…
Girl Culture, Revenge and Global Capitalism
HBO's Girls
The HBO series Girls, created by and starring filmmaker Lena Dunham, has been praised for revealing the uncertainties and contradictions produced by the apparent independence of many contemporary young women. It has also been condemned for focusing on girls who use that independence for self-indulgent complaint and celebrate their own objectification. Both feminist and not-so-feminist responses to its promotion, and to the subsequent success of t…
One for the boys
There is no shortage of attention paid to boys. Nor is there any lack of privilege afforded them collectively as boys. Yet, for obvious reasons, boys have not been a major focus of either gender st
Stranger Things
Contemporary media discourse suggests that feminists exclusively understand boys and the experience of boyhood through such frameworks as ‘toxic masculinity’, positioning boys as the default inheritors of a ‘patriarchal dividend’. Media narratives might be expected to favour such agonistic oppositions, but the dominant forms of scholarship on boys also often take this line, or position boys as subjects at risk of harm done by either the contempor…
The Evolutionary Culture Concepts
Most attempts to define culture as used in the cultural evolution literature treat culture as a single phenomenon that can be given a single nondisjunctive definition. In this article I argue that, really, cultural evolutionists employ a variety of distinct but closely related concepts of culture. I show how the main prominent attempts to define a culture concept fail to properly capture all the uses of “culture” employed in cultural evolutionary…
Girls Today - Girls, Girl Culture and Girl Studies
The history of modern girlhood is entwined with anxieties about cultural norms and cultural change that are foundational to "girlhood" and "girl culture." This essay sketches a history of discourses on girls, girlhood and girl culture as the necessary genealogical context for a subsequent discussion of the field of contemporary girl studies. It begins with historical perspectives on the 'girl of the period' from the nineteenth century, through th…
The mystique of the young girl
The collective Tiqqun's 2001 tract, Raw Materials for a Theory of the YoungGirl, in which they stress the way modern girl culture represents the triumph of capitalism, has recently drawn fresh attention. Here I consider the argument about girls made in this text and its perhaps surprising relevance to contemporary feminist accounts of girlhood and girl culture
Fatal Attraction? Why Sperber’s Attractors do not Prevent Cumulative Cultural Evolution
In order to explain why cultural traits remain stable despite the error-proneness of social learning, Dan Sperber has proposed that human psychology and ecology lead to cultural traits being transformed in the direction of attractors. This means that simple-minded Darwinian models of cultural evolution are not appropriate. Some scientists and philosophers have been concerned that Sperber’s notion of attractors might show more than this, that attr…
Chanel
This article considers the importance of fashion to both modernism and modernity and the importance of modernism to understanding fashion. It does so through a close consideration of the example of Chanel—not the biographical woman Chanel, or even the label Chanel, but rather the Modernist moment in fashion we have come to call “Chanel.” The position of ground-breaking innovator in the field of women's fashion that is widely assigned to Chanel is…
The Energies of Boyhood
Girls and Boys
In the name of the nation
This article examines the relationship between exceptionalism and nationhood in media classification. The history of age-ratings is an international one, and the present challenges associated with digital media circulation are similarly international. We argue that the nation nevertheless provides an appropriate frame for understanding age-rating by attending to the ways national agencies have struggled to articulate the specificity of their work…
Don, Betty and Jackie Kennedy
Why is it that we watch Mad Men and think it represents a period? Flashes of patterned wallpaper, whiskey neat, babies born that are never mentioned, contact lining for kitchen drawers, Ayn Rand, polaroids, skinny ties, Hilton hotels, Walter Cronkite, and a time when Don Draper can ask 'What do women want?' and dry old Roger Sterling can reply 'Who Cares?' This essay explores the embrace of period detail in Mad Men finding it to be both loving an…
On our best behavior
Commentary and Criticism
Can Behaviors Be Adaptations
Kim Sterelny and Paul Griffiths (Sterelny 1992, Sterelny and Griffiths 1999) have argued that sociobiology is unworkable because it requires that human behaviors can be adaptations; however, behaviors produced by a functionalist psychology do not meet Lewontin's quasi-independence criterion and therefore cannot be adaptations. Consequently, an evolutionary psychology—which regards psychological mechanisms as adaptations—should replace sociobiolog…
The Moving Ground
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 100, Number 2, Spring 2001
Can human nature be saved
Nowhere to Go, Nothing to Do
This article explores the figure of the bored country girl that appears widely in popular culture but also in girls studies and rural studies through ethnographic research in Australian country towns. While the presumption that country girls lack resources and opportunities for entertainment and leisure is in many ways empirically valid, this problem's articulation in girls' lives also offers an important perspective from which to ask what boredo…
Message Me
In this article, we investigate the impact of online platforms on the everyday lives of users, including how the interests of those users affect the forms of emerging digital culture. In doing this, we stress temporality and location as crucial to digital literacies of various kinds and thus undo some of the clichés about freedom, constraint and opportunity associated with various web platforms. We also pay heed to the complex cultural literacies…
Girl Culture, Revenge and Global Capitalism
Roger Nash Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union
Baldwin's thirty-year tenure as director of the ACLU marked the period when the modern understanding of the Bill of Rights came into being. Recapturing the accomplishments and contradictions of America's greatest civil libertarian—a staunch defender of Communist Russia who openly admired J. Edgar Hoover and Douglas MacArthur—this riveting biography is an eye-opening view of the development of the American left.
The Moving Ground
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 100, Number 2, Spring 2001
Girls
Terri Apter, Times Literary Supplement (London
Can Behaviors Be Adaptations
Kim Sterelny and Paul Griffiths (Sterelny 1992, Sterelny and Griffiths 1999) have argued that sociobiology is unworkable because it requires that human behaviors can be adaptations; however, behaviors produced by a functionalist psychology do not meet Lewontin's quasi-independence criterion and therefore cannot be adaptations. Consequently, an evolutionary psychology—which regards psychological mechanisms as adaptations—should replace sociobiolog…
Girls Today - Girls, Girl Culture and Girl Studies
The history of modern girlhood is entwined with anxieties about cultural norms and cultural change that are foundational to "girlhood" and "girl culture." This essay sketches a history of discourses on girls, girlhood and girl culture as the necessary genealogical context for a subsequent discussion of the field of contemporary girl studies. It begins with historical perspectives on the 'girl of the period' from the nineteenth century, through th…
Commentary and Criticism
Message Me
In this article, we investigate the impact of online platforms on the everyday lives of users, including how the interests of those users affect the forms of emerging digital culture. In doing this, we stress temporality and location as crucial to digital literacies of various kinds and thus undo some of the clichés about freedom, constraint and opportunity associated with various web platforms. We also pay heed to the complex cultural literacies…
On our best behavior
Chanel
This article considers the importance of fashion to both modernism and modernity and the importance of modernism to understanding fashion. It does so through a close consideration of the example of Chanel—not the biographical woman Chanel, or even the label Chanel, but rather the Modernist moment in fashion we have come to call “Chanel.” The position of ground-breaking innovator in the field of women's fashion that is widely assigned to Chanel is…
On popular music
This essay argues for the significance of thinking about the continuity between modernism and Cultural Studies in understanding how students respond to the key themes and approaches of Cultural Studies. It takes the experience of using the work of Theodor Adorno to introduce students to what Cultural Studies has to say about popular music as a central example to discuss the ongoing relevance of modernist debates to the field of popular music stud…
Convergence Culture and the Legacy of Feminist Cultural Studies
This essay elaborates upon some of the feminist legacies underwriting the work ofHenry Jenkins, particularly the 2006 book, Convergence Culture, to develop a setof priorities for media and Cultural Studies research following in its wake.Focusing on critical uses of the term 'subculture', and its convenient fit withInternet scholarship to date, and moving to an analysis of the notion of'participatory culture', we question how easily the practices …
Fatal Attraction? Why Sperber’s Attractors do not Prevent Cumulative Cultural Evolution
In order to explain why cultural traits remain stable despite the error-proneness of social learning, Dan Sperber has proposed that human psychology and ecology lead to cultural traits being transformed in the direction of attractors. This means that simple-minded Darwinian models of cultural evolution are not appropriate. Some scientists and philosophers have been concerned that Sperber’s notion of attractors might show more than this, that attr…
Don, Betty and Jackie Kennedy
Why is it that we watch Mad Men and think it represents a period? Flashes of patterned wallpaper, whiskey neat, babies born that are never mentioned, contact lining for kitchen drawers, Ayn Rand, polaroids, skinny ties, Hilton hotels, Walter Cronkite, and a time when Don Draper can ask 'What do women want?' and dry old Roger Sterling can reply 'Who Cares?' This essay explores the embrace of period detail in Mad Men finding it to be both loving an…
Subjects of Distance
The rural is widely associated with traditions that modernity is presumed to disrupt or displace. But rurality is an idea produced by modernity, and endlessly engaged in and by dialogues about modernization. This paper considers the figure of the country girl as an image of distance from modernity. Insofar as she is always coming from the outside of a presumed modern identity and experience that is fixed by its urbanity, the country girl in Austr…
The Philosophy of Human Evolution
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The mystique of the young girl
The collective Tiqqun's 2001 tract, Raw Materials for a Theory of the YoungGirl, in which they stress the way modern girl culture represents the triumph of capitalism, has recently drawn fresh attention. Here I consider the argument about girls made in this text and its perhaps surprising relevance to contemporary feminist accounts of girlhood and girl culture
Nowhere to Go, Nothing to Do
This article explores the figure of the bored country girl that appears widely in popular culture but also in girls studies and rural studies through ethnographic research in Australian country towns. While the presumption that country girls lack resources and opportunities for entertainment and leisure is in many ways empirically valid, this problem's articulation in girls' lives also offers an important perspective from which to ask what boredo…
Getting a life
“Medium” signifies first of all an intermediary. The import of the word “means” is the same. They are the middle, the intervening, things through which something now remote is brought to pass. Yet not all means are media. There are two kinds of means. One kind is external to that which is accomplished; the other kind is taken up into the consequences produced and remains immanent in them.... [The] moment we say “media,” we refer to means that are…
HBO's Girls
The HBO series Girls, created by and starring filmmaker Lena Dunham, has been praised for revealing the uncertainties and contradictions produced by the apparent independence of many contemporary young women. It has also been condemned for focusing on girls who use that independence for self-indulgent complaint and celebrate their own objectification. Both feminist and not-so-feminist responses to its promotion, and to the subsequent success of t…
Teaching Cultural Studies; Teaching Stuart Hall
I belong to a generation of cultural studies researchers for whom Stuart Hall was not the primary voice defining the field as I first encountered it. He was not even among the first wave of writers that I read or heard discussed as doing 'cultural studies'. Instead, I came to Hall's work from a distance defined by the history of cultural studies as a discipline; first by the diffusion of some of its most important interventions through other fiel…
Sociobiology
E. O. Wilson first coined the term “Sociobiology” as the title of his (1975) book, and defined it as “the systematic study of the biological basis of behavior.” Sociobiology had its origins in ethology and behavioral ecology, but Wilson's controversial and speculative writings about the evolution of human behavior led to an academic conflict known as the “sociobiology wars.” As a consequence, new terms began to be used to refer to the evolutionar…
Cultural Sustainability in Rural Communities
Memoirs set in the rural environment have a long history in Australia. More recently, though, a genre of popular accounts, written by women and describing their move to country settings from the city, has been identified and labelled farm lit, rural romance or chook lit. The lit appended to farm and chook marks typological connections to chick lit, a genre that charts the romantic tribulations of contemporary single urban women in a comedic manne…
The Evolutionary Culture Concepts
Most attempts to define culture as used in the cultural evolution literature treat culture as a single phenomenon that can be given a single nondisjunctive definition. In this article I argue that, really, cultural evolutionists employ a variety of distinct but closely related concepts of culture. I show how the main prominent attempts to define a culture concept fail to properly capture all the uses of “culture” employed in cultural evolutionary…
In the name of the nation
This article examines the relationship between exceptionalism and nationhood in media classification. The history of age-ratings is an international one, and the present challenges associated with digital media circulation are similarly international. We argue that the nation nevertheless provides an appropriate frame for understanding age-rating by attending to the ways national agencies have struggled to articulate the specificity of their work…
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