http://hdl.handle.net/2440/3769 2013-06-19T12:12:43Z http://hdl.handle.net/2440/78368 Title: Scribblin' sinnin' sh*t: narratives of rape as masculine therapeutic performance in the strange case for and against Tyler, The Creator Author: Eate, Penelope Jeanne Abstract: The presence of rape narratives in the recorded work of rap artist Tyler, The Creator, offers compelling terrain to explore how the apparent post-feminist cultural landscape has given rise to masculine anxieties and the ways in which they are articulated in rap music. Via a feminist-informed content and film analysis, this article examines the instances of rape narratives in the audio and visual work of Tyler, The Creator, and suggests these texts might be understood as symptomatic of feelings of resentment towards women in an era of improved gender equity. This article further argues that such sexually hostile texts function as a ‘therapeutic’ and performative strategy to allay these anxieties whilst simultaneously revealing the patriarchal structures upon which Tyler, The Creator’s particularly vulnerable, deviant masculine subjectivity is premised. 2012-12-31T13:30:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2440/78177 Title: Divine horizons: religion and social class in the lives of two leading Australian women, Betty Archdale and Kylie Tennant Author: Michell, Deidre Evalin Abstract: In this chapter I examine the experiences of two influential twentieth-century women, Betty Archdale (1907–2000) and Kylie Tennant (1912–1988), through the lenses of social class and religion. Both women were born into middle–upper-class families and both had mothers who continued to identify as Christian Scientists until they died. Archdale and Tennant, however, both converted to the Anglican Church as adults, sharing this as well as their ongoing critiques of the Australian establishment. Despite their conversion to mainstream Christianity, I argue that some aspects of Christian Science doctrine influenced both women in their public lives. 2011-12-31T13:30:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2440/78173 Title: Gender studies and social analysis Author: Allen, Margaret Ellen; Magarey, Susan Margaret 2011-12-31T13:30:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2440/77500 Title: Imagining the future: young Australians on sex, love and community Author: Bulbeck, Margaret Cachilla Abstract: Do young Australians understand and live ‘equality’ and ‘difference’ differently from older generations? Is Australia the gender equal society that many claim it to be? How do we understand and explain growing economic inequality when our dominant ideologies are individualism and neoliberalism? What are or should be the limits of tolerance in our negotiation of cultural difference? Imagining the Future explores our contemporary complex equality narrative through the desires and dreams of 1000 young Australians and 230 of their parents from diverse backgrounds across Australia. This ‘extraordinary’ data set affords analysis of the impact of gender, socio-economic disadvantage, ethnicity, Aboriginality and sexuality on young people’s ‘imagined life stories’, or essays written about their future. An intergenerational comparison assesses how different young people really are from older generations. The book offers a compelling and subtle engagement with the sometimes ‘deeply moving’, sometimes ‘hilarious’ voices of young people to deliver insight into the challenges and complexity of gender and other social relations in early 21st Australian society. Young people yearn for and believe in equal opportunities, but their ‘imagined life stories’ indicate massive inequalities in the personal resources that will allow them to achieve their goals. They claim to live in a world of gender equality, even as they continue to cherish performances of gender difference. The gulf between young men’s and young women’s imagined intimate lives together suggest that many are bound for conflict. They (and indeed their parents) do not understand the world in terms of class relations, but proclaim that everyone is ‘the same’, even as they are aware of fine distinctions in economic resources and cultural capital. Alongside proclaimed acceptance of cultural diversity, the advantages experienced by virtue of being white challenges many young Australians. In an increasingly individualistic world, some young people perform in ‘intimate citizenship’, or personal engagements based on shared experiences. Like their parents, few understand obligations towards unmet others, which form the basis of national solidarity. 2011-12-31T13:30:00Z