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Some
related
essays:
Cosmetic
Surgery, 'Makeover Culture'
and the Privatisation of Bodies
(or 'Are Wrinkles Really All That Ugly?' The Age, October 2006)
'From
the "Primitive Droop"
to the "Civilised Thrust":
Towards a Politics of Body Modification'
Paper presented at
the Body Modifications Conference,
Macquarie University, April 2003.
"D-Cups, Groin Guards and Supermodels: Writing the Body into History"
Australian Humanities Review - (If you are downloading this essay,
note that it's in two parts.)
'Bras, Breasts and
Living in the Seventies: Historiography
in the Age of Fibs.' Australian
Feminist Studies:
Seventies Issue. Vol. 22, 53 (July 2007) 231-245.
(or contact me
if you'd like a copy)
'The Milk of
Humankind-ness: From
A Short Personal History of the Bra and its Contents.' Australian
Feminist Studies. Meanings of Breastmilk: New Feminist Flavours.
Vol 19, No 45 (Nov 2004). 315-327.
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Part One: Exegesis
Abstract
[or pdf file - 1pp]
Frontice
pages
(includes summary, acknowledgements &contents page)
[pdf file - 6 pp]
Introduction
[or pdf file
- 6 pp]
Chapter 1:
Writing On, About, and Through Breasted Bodies
[pdf file - 16 pp]
Chapter 2 :Post-structuralist Feminism and the Body
[pdf file -
11 pp]
Chapter 3: The Matter of Bodies and the Paradigm Shifts of
Post-structuralism, Quantum Physics, and Ecological Spirituality
[pdf file - 35 pp]
Chapter 4: Thinking Beyond the Mind/Body Split:
Writing, Reading and Thinking with the Heart [pdf
file - 23 pp]
Chapter 5: Historiography and Method: Putting it into Practice
[pdf file - 22 pp]
Conclusion [or
pdf file - 5 pp]
Select
Bibliography [pdf
file - 48 pp]
Part Two:
Samples from
A Short (Personal) History of the Bra and its Contents
(a novel in progress) --
2 chapters - The Art
of Peace parts 1 & 2
Note: page numbers for the text of Part One have,
where possible, been kept the same as in the submitted thesis, but
each pdf file here also includes the endnotes for that chapter, whereas
in the thesis these are placed after the Conclusion.
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