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Women making time : contemporary feminist critique and cultural analysis / edited by Elizabeth McMahon and Brigitta Olubas.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Crawley, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, 2006.Description: xii, 226 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 1920694609
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.4201 22
Contents:
Introduction -- Celebrity and the time of the secret -- Early modern Garbo : the two bodies of Queen Christina / Kate Lilley -- Shame became famous : Ellen and Anne's coming out / Melissa Hardie -- Times of the object -- Wasted memory and generational history : Tasmania's abandoned places / Elizabeth McMahon -- That which is made in making it : practices of efficiency, waste and modernity in artworks by Donna Marcus / Brigitta Olubas -- Body in time -- La Veillesse : Simone de Beauvoir on corporal time and the ethical quality of alacrity / Penelope Deutscher -- Time and the female smoker / Helen Keane -- Futures of abortion / Barbara Baird -- After feminist history -- Sisterhood, citizenship and social justice : how fare have indigenous women's rights advanced at the new millennium? / Sue J. Stanton -- Mother, is like, history / Nicole Moore -- Temporality and sorge in the ethical fashioning of the feminist self / Kalpana Ram.
Summary: How do women experience time in the modern world? What connections can be drawn between time, action and ethical human realtions? From various vantage points across the humanities and social sciences, Women making time looks at how women fashion understandings of the past, present and future.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library 305.42 WOM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 64840

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Celebrity and the time of the secret -- Early modern Garbo : the two bodies of Queen Christina / Kate Lilley -- Shame became famous : Ellen and Anne's coming out / Melissa Hardie -- Times of the object -- Wasted memory and generational history : Tasmania's abandoned places / Elizabeth McMahon -- That which is made in making it : practices of efficiency, waste and modernity in artworks by Donna Marcus / Brigitta Olubas -- Body in time -- La Veillesse : Simone de Beauvoir on corporal time and the ethical quality of alacrity / Penelope Deutscher -- Time and the female smoker / Helen Keane -- Futures of abortion / Barbara Baird -- After feminist history -- Sisterhood, citizenship and social justice : how fare have indigenous women's rights advanced at the new millennium? / Sue J. Stanton -- Mother, is like, history / Nicole Moore -- Temporality and sorge in the ethical fashioning of the feminist self / Kalpana Ram.

How do women experience time in the modern world? What connections can be drawn between time, action and ethical human realtions? From various vantage points across the humanities and social sciences, Women making time looks at how women fashion understandings of the past, present and future.

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