Anthea Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 3649002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthea Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthea |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6204-2076 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
‘Is this all we want from a field called celebrity studies?’
Graeme Turner's distinctively cultural studies approach to celebrity has shaped, and will continue to shape, the subfield of celebrity studies in profound ways. Incorporating personal reflections on how he shaped my own work and research trajectory, here I consider Graeme's extensive, groundbreaking work in this area along with his own commentary on how we might undertake research into this complex phenomenon in ways that better illuminate its cu…
Germaine Greer’s ‘Unmade’ Television
Giving the Past a Purpose”
Global (post)feminist icon? Celebrity feminism, diplomacy, and Eileen Gu's star persona in China and the US
Archiving Greer/Greer archiving
This article draws upon my engagement with the archive of Australian celebrity feminist Germaine Greer to reflect upon the use of archival methodologies in feminist celebrity studies, especially given that the archive itself is heavily implicated in processes of celebrification. The acquisition of this extensive archive by the University of Melbourne enables a mapping of the wider cultural reverberations of Greer’s celebrity feminist persona, as …
A Prosthetic Popular Feminism in Postfeminist Times
In the conclusion to her study of feminist history in popular culture, Dana Heller calls for feminists “to seize aggressively onto and restock the cultural memory banks” to counter a historical amnesia and a retrograde historical revisionism bedeviling feminism in popular memory. The recent Emmy-nominated television drama Mrs. America is an attempt to do this restocking in culturally hospitable, but politically difficult, times. Mrs. America offe…
The Most Revolting Ideas I've Read in a Woman's Magazine
In March 1971, American women's magazine McCall's published an extract of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch. Myriad unpublished letters to the editor contained in the Greer archive at the University of Melbourne reveal that the magazine's readers were largely dismissive of Greer's feminist vision. These reader-writers, best conceptualised as 'anti-fans', took both author and editor to task for criticising them as wives and mothers. Through an an…
Steve is twice the Aussie icon you will ever be’
In September 2006, Australia’s most iconic feminist, Germaine Greer, wrote a controversial article in response to the death of celebrity wildlife presenter Steve Irwin. In the Guardian piece, entitled ‘That sort of self-delusion is what it takes to be a real Aussie larrikin’, Greer concluded, ‘The animal world has finally taken its revenge on Irwin’. For hundreds of Australian readers, Greer’s public response to the untimely demise of a purported…
Greer now
Introduction
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAnthea TaylorAnthea Taylor is a lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Mediating Australian Feminism (Peter Lang, 2008), Single Women in Popular Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), and Celebrity and the Feminist Blockbuster (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming
Blockbuster' celebrity feminism
Feminism’s implication in the circuits of celebrity has routinely been figured as problematic, seen as antithetical to feminist modes of activism and a refusal of hierarchies. Nonetheless, celebri
Germaine Greer's Adaptable Celebrity
There is little doubt that Germaine Greer is the West's, and especially Britain's, most well-known feminist. This article, looking at her more recent public appearances, argues that Germaine Greer has proven adept at adapting her feminist celebrity, especially through various (and often comedic) performances on quiz and lifestyle programmes on British television. In particular, she exemplifies what has been called an “unruly woman”; that is, she …
The urge towards love is an urge towards (un)death’
Stephanie Meyer’s enormously popular Twilight saga of teen vampire romance novels is commonly referred to as the young adult fiction equivalent of what the Harry Potter series was for children. Central to the series, which sells in the tens of millions globally, is an adolescent romantic relationship that, as I will show, is in many ways masochistic. Interrogating gendered subjectivity within the series, particularly in regard to its teenage narr…
Blogging Solo
This article focuses on the blogosphere as an oppositional field where the meanings around contemporary Western women's singlehood are contested, negotiated and rewritten. In contrast to dominant narratives in which single women are pathologised, in the blogs by, for, and about single women analysed here, writers aim to refigure women's singleness as well as providing resources, support and a textual community where others can intervene and contr…
Here and now
Concern about poor school attendance and participation, particularly of Indigenous children, is a key issue in Australian education; however, strategies to address this issue have been piecemeal and have met with limited success. While much has been written about the issue of school attendance, little attention has been given to absenteeism in early childhood education or its effects at this level. Drawing on data from a longitudinal ethnographic…
Dear Daughter
This essay offers a comparative textual analysis of Phyllis Chesler's Letters to a Young Feminist (1998) and Anne Summers' 'Letter to the Next Generation' (1994), works produced in the United States and Australia respectively. These feminist writers, positioning themselves as representative second-wave 'mothers', have both favoured the epistolary form to narrate their own histories and to articulate the perceived inadequacies of contemporary femi…
Marking feminist times
Popular Culture and (Post)feminism
Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture. Diane Negra and Yvonne Tasker, eds, 2007. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Geek Chic: Smart Women in Popular Culture. Sherr
Feminists 'Misreading'/'Misreading' Feminists
It's for the Rest of Your Life
Although new understandings of career decision-making processes are emerging, the prevailing rhetoric points to careers imbued with new worker attributes-flexibility, job mobility, and constant upskilling. This discussion of the pragmatics of youth career decision making draws on a series of transition studies with Western Australian youths, many aspiring to enter the building trades. Here, career-related decisions were influenced by images of ma…
Readers writing the first stone media event
Job Satisfaction Among Early School Leavers Working in the Trades and the Influence of Vocational Education in Schools
While we know that many youths do not hold an optimistic anticipation of a working life and occupational environments, we do not know a great deal about the early career experiences of young workers, particularly those regarded as high risk such as the early school exits, and young males in particular. Evidence regarding the implications of early school exit suggests ongoing barriers that would work against youth making an easy transition or expe…
I honestly can't see the point
This paper considers youth engagement with dominant discourses regarding school completion. The paper is fundamentally concerned with the way the notion of school completion is being cast, its supporting discourse and the manner in which this potentially marginalizes and excludes. The ultimate efficacy of secondary school completion in the current economic climate is not questioned, however, policy that aggressively promotes and normalizes univer…
Educating for an Inclusive Democracy
1An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Conference, Culture and Citizenship, Brisbane, 30 September‐2 October 1996. In addition, the authors would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments on the paper
Literacy and the New Workplace
In recent years there has been much comment on the value‐laden and particularly political nature of language and literacy and the manner in which literacy is embedded in particular socio‐cultural systems. It is argued here that the non‐neutrality of literacy is evident in the contemporary positioning of adult language and literacy instruction within the rhetoric of current employment‐related concerns. These concerns privilege a particular vision …
Introduction
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAnthea TaylorAnthea Taylor is a lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Mediating Australian Feminism (Peter Lang, 2008), Single Women in Popular Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), and Celebrity and the Feminist Blockbuster (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming
Germaine Greer's Adaptable Celebrity
There is little doubt that Germaine Greer is the West's, and especially Britain's, most well-known feminist. This article, looking at her more recent public appearances, argues that Germaine Greer has proven adept at adapting her feminist celebrity, especially through various (and often comedic) performances on quiz and lifestyle programmes on British television. In particular, she exemplifies what has been called an “unruly woman”; that is, she …
I honestly can't see the point
This paper considers youth engagement with dominant discourses regarding school completion. The paper is fundamentally concerned with the way the notion of school completion is being cast, its supporting discourse and the manner in which this potentially marginalizes and excludes. The ultimate efficacy of secondary school completion in the current economic climate is not questioned, however, policy that aggressively promotes and normalizes univer…
The Most Revolting Ideas I've Read in a Woman's Magazine
In March 1971, American women's magazine McCall's published an extract of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch. Myriad unpublished letters to the editor contained in the Greer archive at the University of Melbourne reveal that the magazine's readers were largely dismissive of Greer's feminist vision. These reader-writers, best conceptualised as 'anti-fans', took both author and editor to task for criticising them as wives and mothers. Through an an…
Steve is twice the Aussie icon you will ever be’
In September 2006, Australia’s most iconic feminist, Germaine Greer, wrote a controversial article in response to the death of celebrity wildlife presenter Steve Irwin. In the Guardian piece, entitled ‘That sort of self-delusion is what it takes to be a real Aussie larrikin’, Greer concluded, ‘The animal world has finally taken its revenge on Irwin’. For hundreds of Australian readers, Greer’s public response to the untimely demise of a purported…
The urge towards love is an urge towards (un)death’
Stephanie Meyer’s enormously popular Twilight saga of teen vampire romance novels is commonly referred to as the young adult fiction equivalent of what the Harry Potter series was for children. Central to the series, which sells in the tens of millions globally, is an adolescent romantic relationship that, as I will show, is in many ways masochistic. Interrogating gendered subjectivity within the series, particularly in regard to its teenage narr…
Here and now
Concern about poor school attendance and participation, particularly of Indigenous children, is a key issue in Australian education; however, strategies to address this issue have been piecemeal and have met with limited success. While much has been written about the issue of school attendance, little attention has been given to absenteeism in early childhood education or its effects at this level. Drawing on data from a longitudinal ethnographic…
Greer now
Blockbuster' celebrity feminism
Feminism’s implication in the circuits of celebrity has routinely been figured as problematic, seen as antithetical to feminist modes of activism and a refusal of hierarchies. Nonetheless, celebri
Blogging Solo
This article focuses on the blogosphere as an oppositional field where the meanings around contemporary Western women's singlehood are contested, negotiated and rewritten. In contrast to dominant narratives in which single women are pathologised, in the blogs by, for, and about single women analysed here, writers aim to refigure women's singleness as well as providing resources, support and a textual community where others can intervene and contr…
Job Satisfaction Among Early School Leavers Working in the Trades and the Influence of Vocational Education in Schools
While we know that many youths do not hold an optimistic anticipation of a working life and occupational environments, we do not know a great deal about the early career experiences of young workers, particularly those regarded as high risk such as the early school exits, and young males in particular. Evidence regarding the implications of early school exit suggests ongoing barriers that would work against youth making an easy transition or expe…
Educating for an Inclusive Democracy
1An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Conference, Culture and Citizenship, Brisbane, 30 September‐2 October 1996. In addition, the authors would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments on the paper
Popular Culture and (Post)feminism
Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture. Diane Negra and Yvonne Tasker, eds, 2007. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Geek Chic: Smart Women in Popular Culture. Sherr
It's for the Rest of Your Life
Although new understandings of career decision-making processes are emerging, the prevailing rhetoric points to careers imbued with new worker attributes-flexibility, job mobility, and constant upskilling. This discussion of the pragmatics of youth career decision making draws on a series of transition studies with Western Australian youths, many aspiring to enter the building trades. Here, career-related decisions were influenced by images of ma…
Readers writing the first stone media event
Literacy and the New Workplace
In recent years there has been much comment on the value‐laden and particularly political nature of language and literacy and the manner in which literacy is embedded in particular socio‐cultural systems. It is argued here that the non‐neutrality of literacy is evident in the contemporary positioning of adult language and literacy instruction within the rhetoric of current employment‐related concerns. These concerns privilege a particular vision …
Teaching English to Kriol Speakers - Where on Earth Do I Start
Background DiscussionReadiness programmes are of little or no value. The door to reading for any [sic] beginning reader is his own language, used to express his own experiences.(Sloan and Latham, 1981)It is an irrefutable fact that most Aboriginal children are under-achieving scholastically. It is also fairly obvious that a contributing factor in this under achievement is poor literacy skills which can hold children back in most areas of school p…
Teaching English to Kriol Speakers - Where on Earth Do I Start
Background DiscussionReadiness programmes are of little or no value. The door to reading for any [sic] beginning reader is his own language, used to express his own experiences.(Sloan and Latham, 1981)It is an irrefutable fact that most Aboriginal children are under-achieving scholastically. It is also fairly obvious that a contributing factor in this under achievement is poor literacy skills which can hold children back in most areas of school p…
Literacy and the New Workplace
In recent years there has been much comment on the value‐laden and particularly political nature of language and literacy and the manner in which literacy is embedded in particular socio‐cultural systems. It is argued here that the non‐neutrality of literacy is evident in the contemporary positioning of adult language and literacy instruction within the rhetoric of current employment‐related concerns. These concerns privilege a particular vision …
Educating for an Inclusive Democracy
1An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Conference, Culture and Citizenship, Brisbane, 30 September‐2 October 1996. In addition, the authors would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments on the paper
Job Satisfaction Among Early School Leavers Working in the Trades and the Influence of Vocational Education in Schools
While we know that many youths do not hold an optimistic anticipation of a working life and occupational environments, we do not know a great deal about the early career experiences of young workers, particularly those regarded as high risk such as the early school exits, and young males in particular. Evidence regarding the implications of early school exit suggests ongoing barriers that would work against youth making an easy transition or expe…
I honestly can't see the point
This paper considers youth engagement with dominant discourses regarding school completion. The paper is fundamentally concerned with the way the notion of school completion is being cast, its supporting discourse and the manner in which this potentially marginalizes and excludes. The ultimate efficacy of secondary school completion in the current economic climate is not questioned, however, policy that aggressively promotes and normalizes univer…
Readers writing the first stone media event
It's for the Rest of Your Life
Although new understandings of career decision-making processes are emerging, the prevailing rhetoric points to careers imbued with new worker attributes-flexibility, job mobility, and constant upskilling. This discussion of the pragmatics of youth career decision making draws on a series of transition studies with Western Australian youths, many aspiring to enter the building trades. Here, career-related decisions were influenced by images of ma…
Feminists 'Misreading'/'Misreading' Feminists
Marking feminist times
Popular Culture and (Post)feminism
Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture. Diane Negra and Yvonne Tasker, eds, 2007. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Geek Chic: Smart Women in Popular Culture. Sherr
Dear Daughter
This essay offers a comparative textual analysis of Phyllis Chesler's Letters to a Young Feminist (1998) and Anne Summers' 'Letter to the Next Generation' (1994), works produced in the United States and Australia respectively. These feminist writers, positioning themselves as representative second-wave 'mothers', have both favoured the epistolary form to narrate their own histories and to articulate the perceived inadequacies of contemporary femi…
Here and now
Concern about poor school attendance and participation, particularly of Indigenous children, is a key issue in Australian education; however, strategies to address this issue have been piecemeal and have met with limited success. While much has been written about the issue of school attendance, little attention has been given to absenteeism in early childhood education or its effects at this level. Drawing on data from a longitudinal ethnographic…
The urge towards love is an urge towards (un)death’
Stephanie Meyer’s enormously popular Twilight saga of teen vampire romance novels is commonly referred to as the young adult fiction equivalent of what the Harry Potter series was for children. Central to the series, which sells in the tens of millions globally, is an adolescent romantic relationship that, as I will show, is in many ways masochistic. Interrogating gendered subjectivity within the series, particularly in regard to its teenage narr…
Blogging Solo
This article focuses on the blogosphere as an oppositional field where the meanings around contemporary Western women's singlehood are contested, negotiated and rewritten. In contrast to dominant narratives in which single women are pathologised, in the blogs by, for, and about single women analysed here, writers aim to refigure women's singleness as well as providing resources, support and a textual community where others can intervene and contr…
Germaine Greer's Adaptable Celebrity
There is little doubt that Germaine Greer is the West's, and especially Britain's, most well-known feminist. This article, looking at her more recent public appearances, argues that Germaine Greer has proven adept at adapting her feminist celebrity, especially through various (and often comedic) performances on quiz and lifestyle programmes on British television. In particular, she exemplifies what has been called an “unruly woman”; that is, she …
Blockbuster' celebrity feminism
Feminism’s implication in the circuits of celebrity has routinely been figured as problematic, seen as antithetical to feminist modes of activism and a refusal of hierarchies. Nonetheless, celebri
Introduction
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAnthea TaylorAnthea Taylor is a lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Mediating Australian Feminism (Peter Lang, 2008), Single Women in Popular Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), and Celebrity and the Feminist Blockbuster (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming
Greer now
Steve is twice the Aussie icon you will ever be’
In September 2006, Australia’s most iconic feminist, Germaine Greer, wrote a controversial article in response to the death of celebrity wildlife presenter Steve Irwin. In the Guardian piece, entitled ‘That sort of self-delusion is what it takes to be a real Aussie larrikin’, Greer concluded, ‘The animal world has finally taken its revenge on Irwin’. For hundreds of Australian readers, Greer’s public response to the untimely demise of a purported…
The Most Revolting Ideas I've Read in a Woman's Magazine
In March 1971, American women's magazine McCall's published an extract of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch. Myriad unpublished letters to the editor contained in the Greer archive at the University of Melbourne reveal that the magazine's readers were largely dismissive of Greer's feminist vision. These reader-writers, best conceptualised as 'anti-fans', took both author and editor to task for criticising them as wives and mothers. Through an an…
A Prosthetic Popular Feminism in Postfeminist Times
In the conclusion to her study of feminist history in popular culture, Dana Heller calls for feminists “to seize aggressively onto and restock the cultural memory banks” to counter a historical amnesia and a retrograde historical revisionism bedeviling feminism in popular memory. The recent Emmy-nominated television drama Mrs. America is an attempt to do this restocking in culturally hospitable, but politically difficult, times. Mrs. America offe…
Archiving Greer/Greer archiving
This article draws upon my engagement with the archive of Australian celebrity feminist Germaine Greer to reflect upon the use of archival methodologies in feminist celebrity studies, especially given that the archive itself is heavily implicated in processes of celebrification. The acquisition of this extensive archive by the University of Melbourne enables a mapping of the wider cultural reverberations of Greer’s celebrity feminist persona, as …
Giving the Past a Purpose”
Global (post)feminist icon? Celebrity feminism, diplomacy, and Eileen Gu's star persona in China and the US
‘Is this all we want from a field called celebrity studies?’
Graeme Turner's distinctively cultural studies approach to celebrity has shaped, and will continue to shape, the subfield of celebrity studies in profound ways. Incorporating personal reflections on how he shaped my own work and research trajectory, here I consider Graeme's extensive, groundbreaking work in this area along with his own commentary on how we might undertake research into this complex phenomenon in ways that better illuminate its cu…
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