Gail Reekie
Biographic Data
| ID | 691087 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gail Reekie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gail |
| FAMILY NAME | Reekie |
| SIGNATURE | REEKIE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Books
War and Peace in Western Australia: The Social and Political Impact of the Great War 1914–1926. By Bobbie Oliver. University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1995. Pp. 314. $24.95 paper. Unfit for Heroes: Reconstruction and Soldier Settlement in the Empire between the Wars. By Kent Fedorowich. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1995. Pp. xii + 243. £40.00 cloth. Disturbing the Wan Melbourne Catholics and Vietnam. By Val Noone. Spectrum, M…
History and the bodies of the illegitimately pregnant woman
1997). History and the bodies of the illegitimately pregnant woman. Australian Feminist Studies: Vol. 12, No. 25, pp. 77-89
Michel de Certeau and the poststructuralist critique of history
In this article I read Michel de Certeau's (1986) Heterologies and (1988) The Writing of History alongside other poststructuralist critics of history such as Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Dominick LaCapra and Hayden White. I indicate what I see as the distinctive features of his theory of history as an operation, including the proposal that history be reconceptualised as a heterology of science and fiction uniquely placed to counter the dogmat…
Single Parents and Social Scientists: Towards a Discourse Analysis of a Contemporary Social ‘Problem’
This article draws on aspects of the work of Michel Foucault to explore the discursive dimensions of the ‘problem’ of single parents. I examine some recent Australian publications, written from a social scientific perspective, by authors who adopt what is usually described as a conservative position on single‐parent families. My reading suggests that the particular discursive context of each text produces a variety of different ‘problems’ of sing…
On the Edge: Women's Experiences of Queensland
B ook R eviews
The Classing Gaze: Sexuality, Class and Surveillance
The Queensland Prostitution Laws Amendment Act 1992
Sexual patternings and sexual cultures: An Australian and comparative regional study 1870-1970
Impulsive women, predictable men: Psychological constructions of sexual difference in sales literature to 1930
(1991). Impulsive women, predictable men: Psychological constructions of sexual difference in sales literature to 1930. Australian Historical Studies: Vol. 24, No. 97, pp. 359-377
Market research and the post-war housewife
Decently Dressed? Sexualised Consumerism and the Working Woman's Wardrobe 1918-1923
Feminism and men's bodies: More thoughts on male sexuality
Humanising Industry: Paternalism, Welfarism and Labour Control in Sydney's Big Stores 1890-1930
Industrial Action by Women Workers in Western Australia during World War II
participation,2 little attention has so far been paid to the phenomenon.3 Female militancy challenges the image of women as dutiful and docile workers suggested by wartime propaganda and perpetuated by some historians.4 Those women who refused to accept their conditions of employment defied popular patriotic sentiment and prevailing notions of femininity. Moreover, female militancy is historiographically significant because it represents resistan…
History and the bodies of the illegitimately pregnant woman
1997). History and the bodies of the illegitimately pregnant woman. Australian Feminist Studies: Vol. 12, No. 25, pp. 77-89
Market research and the post-war housewife
Impulsive women, predictable men: Psychological constructions of sexual difference in sales literature to 1930
(1991). Impulsive women, predictable men: Psychological constructions of sexual difference in sales literature to 1930. Australian Historical Studies: Vol. 24, No. 97, pp. 359-377
Feminism and men's bodies: More thoughts on male sexuality
Humanising Industry: Paternalism, Welfarism and Labour Control in Sydney's Big Stores 1890-1930
Michel de Certeau and the poststructuralist critique of history
In this article I read Michel de Certeau's (1986) Heterologies and (1988) The Writing of History alongside other poststructuralist critics of history such as Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Dominick LaCapra and Hayden White. I indicate what I see as the distinctive features of his theory of history as an operation, including the proposal that history be reconceptualised as a heterology of science and fiction uniquely placed to counter the dogmat…
Decently Dressed? Sexualised Consumerism and the Working Woman's Wardrobe 1918-1923
Industrial Action by Women Workers in Western Australia during World War II
participation,2 little attention has so far been paid to the phenomenon.3 Female militancy challenges the image of women as dutiful and docile workers suggested by wartime propaganda and perpetuated by some historians.4 Those women who refused to accept their conditions of employment defied popular patriotic sentiment and prevailing notions of femininity. Moreover, female militancy is historiographically significant because it represents resistan…
Humanising Industry: Paternalism, Welfarism and Labour Control in Sydney's Big Stores 1890-1930
Feminism and men's bodies: More thoughts on male sexuality
Impulsive women, predictable men: Psychological constructions of sexual difference in sales literature to 1930
(1991). Impulsive women, predictable men: Psychological constructions of sexual difference in sales literature to 1930. Australian Historical Studies: Vol. 24, No. 97, pp. 359-377
Market research and the post-war housewife
Decently Dressed? Sexualised Consumerism and the Working Woman's Wardrobe 1918-1923
Sexual patternings and sexual cultures: An Australian and comparative regional study 1870-1970
The Queensland Prostitution Laws Amendment Act 1992
B ook R eviews
The Classing Gaze: Sexuality, Class and Surveillance
On the Edge: Women's Experiences of Queensland
Michel de Certeau and the poststructuralist critique of history
In this article I read Michel de Certeau's (1986) Heterologies and (1988) The Writing of History alongside other poststructuralist critics of history such as Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Dominick LaCapra and Hayden White. I indicate what I see as the distinctive features of his theory of history as an operation, including the proposal that history be reconceptualised as a heterology of science and fiction uniquely placed to counter the dogmat…
Single Parents and Social Scientists: Towards a Discourse Analysis of a Contemporary Social ‘Problem’
This article draws on aspects of the work of Michel Foucault to explore the discursive dimensions of the ‘problem’ of single parents. I examine some recent Australian publications, written from a social scientific perspective, by authors who adopt what is usually described as a conservative position on single‐parent families. My reading suggests that the particular discursive context of each text produces a variety of different ‘problems’ of sing…
Books
War and Peace in Western Australia: The Social and Political Impact of the Great War 1914–1926. By Bobbie Oliver. University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1995. Pp. 314. $24.95 paper. Unfit for Heroes: Reconstruction and Soldier Settlement in the Empire between the Wars. By Kent Fedorowich. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1995. Pp. xii + 243. £40.00 cloth. Disturbing the Wan Melbourne Catholics and Vietnam. By Val Noone. Spectrum, M…
History and the bodies of the illegitimately pregnant woman
1997). History and the bodies of the illegitimately pregnant woman. Australian Feminist Studies: Vol. 12, No. 25, pp. 77-89
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Australian History and Society (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Project commissioning (3 works) · Publishing (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)