Mary Heath
Biographic Data
| ID | 3600204 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Heath |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Heath |
| SIGNATURE | HEATH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6800-9317 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Learning to feel like a lawyer
Contemporary higher education, including legal education, incorporates complexities that were not identified even a decade ago. Law programs first moved from traditional content-focussed programs toward incorporating critique and legal skills. Many are now working toward recognising inclusion and student wellbeing as integral to law graduates’ professional identities and skillsets. Yet the professional dispositions law teachers require to teach i…
Silencing of activism in Australian law
Environmental destruction and climate change are driving new waves of environmental activism. In response, governments in several Australian states have enacted legislation designed to penalise and silence political protest. This article analyses Tasmania’s anti-protest laws and considers how the United Nations and scholars have reacted to them. We argue that protest suppression laws such as these reflect a neoliberal rationality which conceptual…
Continuing the Cold War tradition and suppressing contemporary dissent
The Defence Special Undertakings Act 1952 (Cth) is a draconian piece of Cold War legislation originally passed to provide security for British atomic testing in Australia. There are only two known prosecutions under the Act, both involving Christian pacifists entering the Pine Gap prohibited area. In 2007, the first ever convictions under the Act were overturned on appeal. A second prosecution has now commenced. This article considers the history…
Aboriginal peoples, colonialism and international law
Irene Watson's powerful, resonant voice sings the Raw Law of the Tanganekald and Meintangk peoples throughout this brilliantly original book. Raw Law is, in a very profound sense, a book about law
On Law and the Sexes
Ngaire Naffine’s Law and the Sexes was published in 1990.11. Naffine Ngaire Law and the Sexes: Explorations in Feminist Jurisprudence Allen & Unwin Sydney 1993. In this interview, conducted at the University of Adelaide Law School on 27 February 2015, Ngaire Naffine speaks about the process of conceptualising, researching and writing the book with Mary Heath. They go on to discuss the reception of Law and the Sexes at the time of its publication …
Shiny happy same-sex attracted woman seeking same
Existing research studies document significant challenges to bisexual and lesbian women’s health, and suggest social connection may be protective. This study investigated how communities might contribute to bisexual and lesbian women’s well-being. Interviews with 47 women suggest that community engagement could provide resources and social contact, enhancing women’s confidence, self-esteem and well-being. However, ensuring community support for w…
Lack of Conviction
1.0 INTRODUCTION Anti-rape activism is replete with dilemmas. Let me begin with just one: conviction statistics for rape vividly summarise the lack of justice available to people who have experienced rape, and thus present a potential asset in achieving change. At the same time, however, they hold some real risks. They can focus attention on the legal system and leave other arenas in which change is needed untouched. They can send unwanted messag…
Savagery and Civilization
This article argues that the colonization of Australia was justified by denying that Indigenous peoples possessed recognizable societies, law, property rights or sovereignty. This denial, in turn, rests upon the supposition that Indigenous Australians were living in a ‘savage’, pre-civilized state: the state of nature of liberal theory. Such concepts, deeply embedded in western political thought, informed the view that Australia was a terra nulli…
Growing Up the Space
Alice's Adventures at s11
CatharineMacKinnon
(1997). Catharine MacKinnon: Toward a Feminist Theory of The State? Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 45-63
Men's Needs and Women's Desires
Savagery and Civilization
This article argues that the colonization of Australia was justified by denying that Indigenous peoples possessed recognizable societies, law, property rights or sovereignty. This denial, in turn, rests upon the supposition that Indigenous Australians were living in a ‘savage’, pre-civilized state: the state of nature of liberal theory. Such concepts, deeply embedded in western political thought, informed the view that Australia was a terra nulli…
Shiny happy same-sex attracted woman seeking same
Existing research studies document significant challenges to bisexual and lesbian women’s health, and suggest social connection may be protective. This study investigated how communities might contribute to bisexual and lesbian women’s well-being. Interviews with 47 women suggest that community engagement could provide resources and social contact, enhancing women’s confidence, self-esteem and well-being. However, ensuring community support for w…
Silencing of activism in Australian law
Environmental destruction and climate change are driving new waves of environmental activism. In response, governments in several Australian states have enacted legislation designed to penalise and silence political protest. This article analyses Tasmania’s anti-protest laws and considers how the United Nations and scholars have reacted to them. We argue that protest suppression laws such as these reflect a neoliberal rationality which conceptual…
Continuing the Cold War tradition and suppressing contemporary dissent
The Defence Special Undertakings Act 1952 (Cth) is a draconian piece of Cold War legislation originally passed to provide security for British atomic testing in Australia. There are only two known prosecutions under the Act, both involving Christian pacifists entering the Pine Gap prohibited area. In 2007, the first ever convictions under the Act were overturned on appeal. A second prosecution has now commenced. This article considers the history…
Lack of Conviction
1.0 INTRODUCTION Anti-rape activism is replete with dilemmas. Let me begin with just one: conviction statistics for rape vividly summarise the lack of justice available to people who have experienced rape, and thus present a potential asset in achieving change. At the same time, however, they hold some real risks. They can focus attention on the legal system and leave other arenas in which change is needed untouched. They can send unwanted messag…
CatharineMacKinnon
(1997). Catharine MacKinnon: Toward a Feminist Theory of The State? Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 45-63
Men's Needs and Women's Desires
Men's Needs and Women's Desires
CatharineMacKinnon
(1997). Catharine MacKinnon: Toward a Feminist Theory of The State? Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 45-63
Alice's Adventures at s11
Growing Up the Space
Savagery and Civilization
This article argues that the colonization of Australia was justified by denying that Indigenous peoples possessed recognizable societies, law, property rights or sovereignty. This denial, in turn, rests upon the supposition that Indigenous Australians were living in a ‘savage’, pre-civilized state: the state of nature of liberal theory. Such concepts, deeply embedded in western political thought, informed the view that Australia was a terra nulli…
Lack of Conviction
1.0 INTRODUCTION Anti-rape activism is replete with dilemmas. Let me begin with just one: conviction statistics for rape vividly summarise the lack of justice available to people who have experienced rape, and thus present a potential asset in achieving change. At the same time, however, they hold some real risks. They can focus attention on the legal system and leave other arenas in which change is needed untouched. They can send unwanted messag…
Shiny happy same-sex attracted woman seeking same
Existing research studies document significant challenges to bisexual and lesbian women’s health, and suggest social connection may be protective. This study investigated how communities might contribute to bisexual and lesbian women’s well-being. Interviews with 47 women suggest that community engagement could provide resources and social contact, enhancing women’s confidence, self-esteem and well-being. However, ensuring community support for w…
Aboriginal peoples, colonialism and international law
Irene Watson's powerful, resonant voice sings the Raw Law of the Tanganekald and Meintangk peoples throughout this brilliantly original book. Raw Law is, in a very profound sense, a book about law
On Law and the Sexes
Ngaire Naffine’s Law and the Sexes was published in 1990.11. Naffine Ngaire Law and the Sexes: Explorations in Feminist Jurisprudence Allen & Unwin Sydney 1993. In this interview, conducted at the University of Adelaide Law School on 27 February 2015, Ngaire Naffine speaks about the process of conceptualising, researching and writing the book with Mary Heath. They go on to discuss the reception of Law and the Sexes at the time of its publication …
Learning to feel like a lawyer
Contemporary higher education, including legal education, incorporates complexities that were not identified even a decade ago. Law programs first moved from traditional content-focussed programs toward incorporating critique and legal skills. Many are now working toward recognising inclusion and student wellbeing as integral to law graduates’ professional identities and skillsets. Yet the professional dispositions law teachers require to teach i…
Silencing of activism in Australian law
Environmental destruction and climate change are driving new waves of environmental activism. In response, governments in several Australian states have enacted legislation designed to penalise and silence political protest. This article analyses Tasmania’s anti-protest laws and considers how the United Nations and scholars have reacted to them. We argue that protest suppression laws such as these reflect a neoliberal rationality which conceptual…
Continuing the Cold War tradition and suppressing contemporary dissent
The Defence Special Undertakings Act 1952 (Cth) is a draconian piece of Cold War legislation originally passed to provide security for British atomic testing in Australia. There are only two known prosecutions under the Act, both involving Christian pacifists entering the Pine Gap prohibited area. In 2007, the first ever convictions under the Act were overturned on appeal. A second prosecution has now commenced. This article considers the history…
Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Law in Society and Culture (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Project commissioning (3 works) · Publishing (3 works)