Heather Benbow
Biographic Data
| ID | 2341142 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Benbow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather |
| FAMILY NAME | Benbow |
| SIGNATURE | BENBOW H |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5505-7464 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Kulturkrieg’ Behind Barbed Wire
This article is the first in‐depth study of the ‘Deutsches Theater Liverpool’, probably the most successful non‐English theatre ever on Australian soil, selling out daily performances and mounting a new production each week. The theatre's success was due in large part to its location inside the ‘German Concentration Camp’, the largest First World War (WWI) internment camp in Australia. In contrast to most WWI internment camps around the world, it…
Europe on a Plate
This article discusses tensions emerging from conflicting ethnic and national identities in three European Union (EU) member states – Germany, Italy and Spain – through the prism of culinary practices. Food is a marker of cultural identity. In Europe, a wide variety of food practices and culinary cultures co-exist in close proximity, and Europeans thus face the dilemma that confronts all omnivores presented with a breadth of culinary options: whi…
Beyond bully beef
Important recent scholarship has highlighted the social, cultural, religious and emotional significance of food, drink and hunger in wartime. Much of this work has taken World War I as its focus. However, the particular effects of eating as an intercultural encounter is an area so far underexplored in the history of World War I. This article examines these aspects of daily life in war time through the records of diaries, memoirs, soldier newspape…
Commensality and Conflict
For soldiers and civilians alike, food is a critical issue in times of conflict. Yet the role of food in times of war has received little scholarly attention. In line with literature that draws attention to the social and cultural meanings of food, this article considers intercultural culinary encounters between Australian soldiers and locals during the Battle of Timor in the Second World War. From their reliance on local produce in the absence o…
Tradition, modernity and exoticism
This article considers the ‘plating up’ of Peruvian food in two very different Melbourne establishments, each reflective of the changing face of Peruvian cuisine outside of Peru. We argue that despite a move from the suburban periphery of ‘ethnic’ dining to the cosmopolitan centre of high-end cuisine, Peruvian food in Melbourne is subject to exoticization and the demand for ‘authenticity’. In our analysis of the plating up of Peruvian cuisine in …
Christoph Meiners’ History of the Female Sex (1788–1800)
This article investigates the portrayal of Spanish women in a rarely discussed work by the German popular philosopher Christoph Meiners (1747–1810). Between 1788 and 1800 Meiners wrote four substantial volumes titled History of the Female Sex: Comprising a View of the Habits, Manners, and Influence of Women, Among all Nations, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time, which sought to give an account of the physical and moral qualities of women,…
“Was auf den Tisch kam, mußte aufgegessen […] werden”
Ways in, Ways Out
A self-confessed hypochondriac, Immanuel Kant was prolific on the topic of his own corporeality, diligently recording the details of his ' Di‰tetik'-a physical regimen intended to ensure long life. The ' Di‰tetik' reveals a Kantian body in which the orifices-the ways in and out of the body-are problematized, and exchange with the world of objects via these orifices is strictly regulated. The Kantian body is a 'classic' body in Bakhtinian terms; i…
Christoph Meiners’ History of the Female Sex (1788–1800)
This article investigates the portrayal of Spanish women in a rarely discussed work by the German popular philosopher Christoph Meiners (1747–1810). Between 1788 and 1800 Meiners wrote four substantial volumes titled History of the Female Sex: Comprising a View of the Habits, Manners, and Influence of Women, Among all Nations, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time, which sought to give an account of the physical and moral qualities of women,…
Ways in, Ways Out
A self-confessed hypochondriac, Immanuel Kant was prolific on the topic of his own corporeality, diligently recording the details of his ' Di‰tetik'-a physical regimen intended to ensure long life. The ' Di‰tetik' reveals a Kantian body in which the orifices-the ways in and out of the body-are problematized, and exchange with the world of objects via these orifices is strictly regulated. The Kantian body is a 'classic' body in Bakhtinian terms; i…
Ways in, Ways Out
A self-confessed hypochondriac, Immanuel Kant was prolific on the topic of his own corporeality, diligently recording the details of his ' Di‰tetik'-a physical regimen intended to ensure long life. The ' Di‰tetik' reveals a Kantian body in which the orifices-the ways in and out of the body-are problematized, and exchange with the world of objects via these orifices is strictly regulated. The Kantian body is a 'classic' body in Bakhtinian terms; i…
“Was auf den Tisch kam, mußte aufgegessen […] werden”
Christoph Meiners’ History of the Female Sex (1788–1800)
This article investigates the portrayal of Spanish women in a rarely discussed work by the German popular philosopher Christoph Meiners (1747–1810). Between 1788 and 1800 Meiners wrote four substantial volumes titled History of the Female Sex: Comprising a View of the Habits, Manners, and Influence of Women, Among all Nations, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time, which sought to give an account of the physical and moral qualities of women,…
Tradition, modernity and exoticism
This article considers the ‘plating up’ of Peruvian food in two very different Melbourne establishments, each reflective of the changing face of Peruvian cuisine outside of Peru. We argue that despite a move from the suburban periphery of ‘ethnic’ dining to the cosmopolitan centre of high-end cuisine, Peruvian food in Melbourne is subject to exoticization and the demand for ‘authenticity’. In our analysis of the plating up of Peruvian cuisine in …
Commensality and Conflict
For soldiers and civilians alike, food is a critical issue in times of conflict. Yet the role of food in times of war has received little scholarly attention. In line with literature that draws attention to the social and cultural meanings of food, this article considers intercultural culinary encounters between Australian soldiers and locals during the Battle of Timor in the Second World War. From their reliance on local produce in the absence o…
Europe on a Plate
This article discusses tensions emerging from conflicting ethnic and national identities in three European Union (EU) member states – Germany, Italy and Spain – through the prism of culinary practices. Food is a marker of cultural identity. In Europe, a wide variety of food practices and culinary cultures co-exist in close proximity, and Europeans thus face the dilemma that confronts all omnivores presented with a breadth of culinary options: whi…
Beyond bully beef
Important recent scholarship has highlighted the social, cultural, religious and emotional significance of food, drink and hunger in wartime. Much of this work has taken World War I as its focus. However, the particular effects of eating as an intercultural encounter is an area so far underexplored in the history of World War I. This article examines these aspects of daily life in war time through the records of diaries, memoirs, soldier newspape…
Kulturkrieg’ Behind Barbed Wire
This article is the first in‐depth study of the ‘Deutsches Theater Liverpool’, probably the most successful non‐English theatre ever on Australian soil, selling out daily performances and mounting a new production each week. The theatre's success was due in large part to its location inside the ‘German Concentration Camp’, the largest First World War (WWI) internment camp in Australia. In contrast to most WWI internment camps around the world, it…
History (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · German (3 works)