Cassandra Loeser
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701349 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cassandra Loeser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cassandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Loeser |
| SIGNATURE | LOESER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5140-9373 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Does the viva matter? PhD student experiences of the oral examination and its contribution to examination outcome and researcher development
The typical doctoral examination comprises the assessment of a written thesis or other artefact followed by a viva involving the candidate and two or more examiners. Australian universities generally do not follow that model of PhD examination preferring instead to send theses to examiners and base decisions to award solely on examiner assessments of the thesis rather than involving an oral examination. In 2016, the University of South Australia …
Questioning policy representations of women’s alcohol consumption
This study draws on Carol Bacchi’s What’s the problem represented to be? (WPR) framework, to deconstruct policy discourses of women’s alcohol consumption. It examines Australian policies such as in the National Alcohol Strategy (2019–2028) and Australian Guidelines to Reduce Health Risks from Drinking Alcohol ( NHMRC, 2009, 2020 ). It found that policy discourses particularly focus on the effects of women’s alcohol consumption as ‘harms’ to unbor…
Unruly female spectators at the Melbourne Cup in Australia
This paper critically examines competing media discourses about women’s alcohol consumption as spectators at the Melbourne Cup, a historically prestigious annual Australian horse race. Taking a feminist poststructural lens, this paper identifies how print media representations of the female drinking subject can provide a multitude of subject positions that can be contradictory and subversive, offering possibilities for resistance to idealised mid…
Feminine subjectivities and aspirational learner identities
In educational research, girls are frequently depicted as success stories, able to effortlessly navigate academic excellence as empowered females. However, these depictions lack nuance and often fail to capture the complexity of young women’s experiences as they shift from compulsory schooling into higher education. Using a methodology of semi-structured interviews and focus groups occurring at three points over the course of the first year of un…
Disability and sexuality
There is an ongoing missing discourse of pleasure in studies of sexuality and disability, and considerations of sexual pleasures and sexual desire in the lives of people with disabilities play very little part in public discourse. This opening article analyzes some of the major theoretical influences and debates informing prevailing assumptions about disability and sexuality. An exposition of the theoretical and conceptual terrains that underpin …
The rapture of the ride
This article explores motorcycling as an arena for the choreography and performance of body practices of pleasure for young men with hearing disabilities. The article advances the argument that the discursive multiplicity of identities experienced in motorcycling destabilises precepts that privilege paid work and institutionalised competitive team sports as absolute bastions of masculine existence. Drawing on data collected from an interview with…
Muscularity, mateship and malevolent masculinities
Across the analysis of interview fragments from two young men with hearing disabilities who attended secondary schools in Australia, this paper will demonstrate that masculinity in the schoolyard frequently emerges within and as a collective form of violence and malevolence against the disabled body. Yet while certain individuals or groups may constitute them as ‘Other’, the young men themselves do not believe that because they have a hearing dis…
A natural ear for music? Hearing (dis)abled masculinities
Musical performances on the bass guitar, able to be felt bodily beyond the ear, connect into the many layers of affect that music excites; but they are particularly potent as a means of communicating embodied masculinity for one young man with a hearing disability. Masculinity as a social code enacted within practices of the everyday involves both the affect and the effect of difference. The bass guitar, the instrument which drives a band's sound…
Disability/postmodernity
(2002). Disability/postmodernity: embodying disability theory. Health Sociology Review: Vol. 11, No. 1-2, pp. 100-102
Feminine subjectivities and aspirational learner identities
In educational research, girls are frequently depicted as success stories, able to effortlessly navigate academic excellence as empowered females. However, these depictions lack nuance and often fail to capture the complexity of young women’s experiences as they shift from compulsory schooling into higher education. Using a methodology of semi-structured interviews and focus groups occurring at three points over the course of the first year of un…
A natural ear for music? Hearing (dis)abled masculinities
Musical performances on the bass guitar, able to be felt bodily beyond the ear, connect into the many layers of affect that music excites; but they are particularly potent as a means of communicating embodied masculinity for one young man with a hearing disability. Masculinity as a social code enacted within practices of the everyday involves both the affect and the effect of difference. The bass guitar, the instrument which drives a band's sound…
Unruly female spectators at the Melbourne Cup in Australia
This paper critically examines competing media discourses about women’s alcohol consumption as spectators at the Melbourne Cup, a historically prestigious annual Australian horse race. Taking a feminist poststructural lens, this paper identifies how print media representations of the female drinking subject can provide a multitude of subject positions that can be contradictory and subversive, offering possibilities for resistance to idealised mid…
Muscularity, mateship and malevolent masculinities
Across the analysis of interview fragments from two young men with hearing disabilities who attended secondary schools in Australia, this paper will demonstrate that masculinity in the schoolyard frequently emerges within and as a collective form of violence and malevolence against the disabled body. Yet while certain individuals or groups may constitute them as ‘Other’, the young men themselves do not believe that because they have a hearing dis…
Disability/postmodernity
(2002). Disability/postmodernity: embodying disability theory. Health Sociology Review: Vol. 11, No. 1-2, pp. 100-102
A natural ear for music? Hearing (dis)abled masculinities
Musical performances on the bass guitar, able to be felt bodily beyond the ear, connect into the many layers of affect that music excites; but they are particularly potent as a means of communicating embodied masculinity for one young man with a hearing disability. Masculinity as a social code enacted within practices of the everyday involves both the affect and the effect of difference. The bass guitar, the instrument which drives a band's sound…
Muscularity, mateship and malevolent masculinities
Across the analysis of interview fragments from two young men with hearing disabilities who attended secondary schools in Australia, this paper will demonstrate that masculinity in the schoolyard frequently emerges within and as a collective form of violence and malevolence against the disabled body. Yet while certain individuals or groups may constitute them as ‘Other’, the young men themselves do not believe that because they have a hearing dis…
The rapture of the ride
This article explores motorcycling as an arena for the choreography and performance of body practices of pleasure for young men with hearing disabilities. The article advances the argument that the discursive multiplicity of identities experienced in motorcycling destabilises precepts that privilege paid work and institutionalised competitive team sports as absolute bastions of masculine existence. Drawing on data collected from an interview with…
Disability and sexuality
There is an ongoing missing discourse of pleasure in studies of sexuality and disability, and considerations of sexual pleasures and sexual desire in the lives of people with disabilities play very little part in public discourse. This opening article analyzes some of the major theoretical influences and debates informing prevailing assumptions about disability and sexuality. An exposition of the theoretical and conceptual terrains that underpin …
Feminine subjectivities and aspirational learner identities
In educational research, girls are frequently depicted as success stories, able to effortlessly navigate academic excellence as empowered females. However, these depictions lack nuance and often fail to capture the complexity of young women’s experiences as they shift from compulsory schooling into higher education. Using a methodology of semi-structured interviews and focus groups occurring at three points over the course of the first year of un…
Questioning policy representations of women’s alcohol consumption
This study draws on Carol Bacchi’s What’s the problem represented to be? (WPR) framework, to deconstruct policy discourses of women’s alcohol consumption. It examines Australian policies such as in the National Alcohol Strategy (2019–2028) and Australian Guidelines to Reduce Health Risks from Drinking Alcohol ( NHMRC, 2009, 2020 ). It found that policy discourses particularly focus on the effects of women’s alcohol consumption as ‘harms’ to unbor…
Unruly female spectators at the Melbourne Cup in Australia
This paper critically examines competing media discourses about women’s alcohol consumption as spectators at the Melbourne Cup, a historically prestigious annual Australian horse race. Taking a feminist poststructural lens, this paper identifies how print media representations of the female drinking subject can provide a multitude of subject positions that can be contradictory and subversive, offering possibilities for resistance to idealised mid…
Does the viva matter? PhD student experiences of the oral examination and its contribution to examination outcome and researcher development
The typical doctoral examination comprises the assessment of a written thesis or other artefact followed by a viva involving the candidate and two or more examiners. Australian universities generally do not follow that model of PhD examination preferring instead to send theses to examiners and base decisions to award solely on examiner assessments of the thesis rather than involving an oral examination. In 2016, the University of South Australia …
Gender Studies (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Masculinity (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Subjectivity (3 works) · Art (2 works)