Jane Simon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3649064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Simon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Simon |
| SIGNATURE | SIMON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5655-5150 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Swiping through the family album
Sakura imagery and cosmetics
This article examines contemporary representations of sakura (cherry blossom) in cosmetics marketing. Since the Heian period, sakura has been loved and regarded as having tangible and metaphorical significance in Japan. Imagery of sakura is rich in ambiguity and has a complex history as evident in its use in the militaristic promotion of heroism, especially related to the Second World War. However, in recent decades, sakura imagery has proliferat…
The Fabric of Resistance
Since the 1980s, queer women have held a precarious position in HIV/AIDS discourse, often invisible or positioned in caring roles for others living with HIV. The voices of queer women who are themselves HIV-positive have been largely unrepresented. In this article, we examine artworks by Kia LaBeija and Jessica Whitbread, contemporary artists who explicitly draw on their experiences as queer HIV-positive women. We trace the appearance of material…
Reflections on, and from, Feminist Practice
10.1080/08164649.2023.2267178
The labour of light
This article examines the photography of Nagashima Yurie and Kawauchi Rinko. Both of these Japanese women photographers produced considerable bodies of work during the Heisei era (1989–2019) attending to the familial and the domestic. We situate Nagashima’s photography as invested in a feminist politics of looking, and Kawauchi’s photography as exploring a cumulative gaze at the everyday through her poetics of looking. We argue that both Nagashim…
The Wilderness Diary
Gendered meanings, particularly around sentiment and attachment, shape hierarchies of value that organize our understandings of the creation, reproduction, and circulation of landscape photography. To explore these ideas, this article considers Australian wilderness diaries and calendars, which began to emerge in the late 1970s. Popular landscape photography is often derided as merely showing pristine, repetitive scenes: technically perfect shots…
Interior Matter
This introductory article maps out the relationship between life writing and interiors. It examines the connections between interior spaces, interior matter and interior selves and foregrounds how interiorities are shaped across material and visual cultures. It takes as a springboard the work of life writing and auto/biography scholars who have expanded the limits of what is considered autobiographical practice and reoriented the field beyond the…
Documenting the Domestic
Chantal Akerman's films provide meticulous observations of the everyday, depicting in obsessive detail the activities that weave across daily life. Experimental and often on the border of fiction and non-fiction, Akerman's films have created a rich archive, both personal and collective, of domestic life. Many of Akerman's films have a range of autobiographical registers. In this article, I position the experimental autobiographical film as archiv…
Academic Work Cultures
Research carried out in Australia, the UK, USA, and Europe over the last decade or so has clearly shown that large numbers of academics are stressed, anxious, depressed, overloaded, and demoralised (Barcan 2013; Burrows 2012; Court & Kinman 2008; Ditton 2009; Gill 2010; Hil 2012; Lynch 2010; Sparkes 2007; Tytherleigh et al. 2007; Watson 2010). Many are suffering from insomnia, feelings of guilt, insecurity, anger, loss, failure and disorientation…
Doing Family Photography
Recycling Home Movies
Cultural studies’ attraction to objects and practices which are ‘new’ or ‘emergent’ can be at the expense of objects and practices which might be called ‘obsolete’. While emerging media technologie
Three Poems
Thoughts on September 11, 2001
Soul Death
Success for women library managers ‐ but on whose terms
The “double‐glazed glass ceiling” in Australian libraries
Discusses the findings from a recent Australian study on the status of women in libraries. Poses the question of whether a “double‐glazed” ceiling exists for women in librarianship despite their movement since the late 1980s into library management positions and legislative initiatives. Utilizes both survey data and information obtained from follow‐up interviews with female librarians. Also questions the usefulness of the metaphor, the “glass cei…
The single parent
Integrity in the psychoanalytic relationship
A psychotherapeutic relationship
The Role of the Double in the Creative Process and Psychoanalysis
Love
Sandy's confrontation with her three selves
Creativity and altered states of consciousness
Love
On Missing the Revolution
A review of Margaret Henderson, Marking Feminist Times: Remembering the Longest Revolution in Australia (Peter Lang, Bern, 2006
Documenting the Domestic
Chantal Akerman's films provide meticulous observations of the everyday, depicting in obsessive detail the activities that weave across daily life. Experimental and often on the border of fiction and non-fiction, Akerman's films have created a rich archive, both personal and collective, of domestic life. Many of Akerman's films have a range of autobiographical registers. In this article, I position the experimental autobiographical film as archiv…
Academic Work Cultures
Research carried out in Australia, the UK, USA, and Europe over the last decade or so has clearly shown that large numbers of academics are stressed, anxious, depressed, overloaded, and demoralised (Barcan 2013; Burrows 2012; Court & Kinman 2008; Ditton 2009; Gill 2010; Hil 2012; Lynch 2010; Sparkes 2007; Tytherleigh et al. 2007; Watson 2010). Many are suffering from insomnia, feelings of guilt, insecurity, anger, loss, failure and disorientation…
Recycling Home Movies
Cultural studies’ attraction to objects and practices which are ‘new’ or ‘emergent’ can be at the expense of objects and practices which might be called ‘obsolete’. While emerging media technologie
Critical Proximity
This essay considers how written language frames visual objects. Drawing on Michel Foucault's response to Raymond Roussel's obsessive description, the essay proposes a model of criticism where description might press up against its objects. This critical closeness is then mapped across the conceptual art practice and art criticism of Ian Burn. Burn attends to the differences between seeing and reading, and considers the conditions which frame how…
Interior Matter
This introductory article maps out the relationship between life writing and interiors. It examines the connections between interior spaces, interior matter and interior selves and foregrounds how interiorities are shaped across material and visual cultures. It takes as a springboard the work of life writing and auto/biography scholars who have expanded the limits of what is considered autobiographical practice and reoriented the field beyond the…
On Missing the Revolution
A review of Margaret Henderson, Marking Feminist Times: Remembering the Longest Revolution in Australia (Peter Lang, Bern, 2006
Critical Proximity
This essay considers how written language frames visual objects. Drawing on Michel Foucault's response to Raymond Roussel's obsessive description, the essay proposes a model of criticism where description might press up against its objects. This critical closeness is then mapped across the conceptual art practice and art criticism of Ian Burn. Burn attends to the differences between seeing and reading, and considers the conditions which frame how…
Love
Creativity and altered states of consciousness
Love
Sandy's confrontation with her three selves
The Role of the Double in the Creative Process and Psychoanalysis
A psychotherapeutic relationship
Integrity in the psychoanalytic relationship
The single parent
The “double‐glazed glass ceiling” in Australian libraries
Discusses the findings from a recent Australian study on the status of women in libraries. Poses the question of whether a “double‐glazed” ceiling exists for women in librarianship despite their movement since the late 1980s into library management positions and legislative initiatives. Utilizes both survey data and information obtained from follow‐up interviews with female librarians. Also questions the usefulness of the metaphor, the “glass cei…
Success for women library managers ‐ but on whose terms
Soul Death
Thoughts on September 11, 2001
Three Poems
Recycling Home Movies
Cultural studies’ attraction to objects and practices which are ‘new’ or ‘emergent’ can be at the expense of objects and practices which might be called ‘obsolete’. While emerging media technologie
Doing Family Photography
Academic Work Cultures
Research carried out in Australia, the UK, USA, and Europe over the last decade or so has clearly shown that large numbers of academics are stressed, anxious, depressed, overloaded, and demoralised (Barcan 2013; Burrows 2012; Court & Kinman 2008; Ditton 2009; Gill 2010; Hil 2012; Lynch 2010; Sparkes 2007; Tytherleigh et al. 2007; Watson 2010). Many are suffering from insomnia, feelings of guilt, insecurity, anger, loss, failure and disorientation…
Documenting the Domestic
Chantal Akerman's films provide meticulous observations of the everyday, depicting in obsessive detail the activities that weave across daily life. Experimental and often on the border of fiction and non-fiction, Akerman's films have created a rich archive, both personal and collective, of domestic life. Many of Akerman's films have a range of autobiographical registers. In this article, I position the experimental autobiographical film as archiv…
The Wilderness Diary
Gendered meanings, particularly around sentiment and attachment, shape hierarchies of value that organize our understandings of the creation, reproduction, and circulation of landscape photography. To explore these ideas, this article considers Australian wilderness diaries and calendars, which began to emerge in the late 1970s. Popular landscape photography is often derided as merely showing pristine, repetitive scenes: technically perfect shots…
Interior Matter
This introductory article maps out the relationship between life writing and interiors. It examines the connections between interior spaces, interior matter and interior selves and foregrounds how interiorities are shaped across material and visual cultures. It takes as a springboard the work of life writing and auto/biography scholars who have expanded the limits of what is considered autobiographical practice and reoriented the field beyond the…
Reflections on, and from, Feminist Practice
10.1080/08164649.2023.2267178
The labour of light
This article examines the photography of Nagashima Yurie and Kawauchi Rinko. Both of these Japanese women photographers produced considerable bodies of work during the Heisei era (1989–2019) attending to the familial and the domestic. We situate Nagashima’s photography as invested in a feminist politics of looking, and Kawauchi’s photography as exploring a cumulative gaze at the everyday through her poetics of looking. We argue that both Nagashim…
Sakura imagery and cosmetics
This article examines contemporary representations of sakura (cherry blossom) in cosmetics marketing. Since the Heian period, sakura has been loved and regarded as having tangible and metaphorical significance in Japan. Imagery of sakura is rich in ambiguity and has a complex history as evident in its use in the militaristic promotion of heroism, especially related to the Second World War. However, in recent decades, sakura imagery has proliferat…
The Fabric of Resistance
Since the 1980s, queer women have held a precarious position in HIV/AIDS discourse, often invisible or positioned in caring roles for others living with HIV. The voices of queer women who are themselves HIV-positive have been largely unrepresented. In this article, we examine artworks by Kia LaBeija and Jessica Whitbread, contemporary artists who explicitly draw on their experiences as queer HIV-positive women. We trace the appearance of material…
Psychology (18 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Psychoanalysis (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Psychotherapist (6 works)