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Postgraduate Research Topics in Women's Studies & Gender Research

The following is a list of Women's Studies postgraduates and their thesis topics. If you are a postgraduate student in Women's Studies and would like to have your name added or removed from this list, or if you would like to have your email or and abstract listed as well, you can do so simply by contacting our Postgraduate Coordinator Sue.Stevenson@monash.edu

PhD
Name Thesis Title / Topic Supervisor/s
Zakiah Hasan Gaffar Life in Between: The Post-Migration Narratives of Indonesian Returning Domestic Workers (under examination) Dr Brett Hough / Dr JaneMaree Maher
Dahlia Hassanien Negotiating marriage, family and work in the lives of tertiary educated Egyptian women Dr JaneMaree Maher / Dr Jo Lindsay
Vicky Nagy ‘Stop the wretched woman in her horrid career’: A study of competing representations of femininity in social and legal responses to female poisoners, 1846-1851 Dr Danielle Tyson / Dr JaneMaree Maher
Kiran Pienaar (Re)constructing HIV/AIDS in post-Apartheid South Africa (1999-2008) Associate Prof. Suzanne Fraser / Dr Steven Angelides
Liz Sutton How labour pain is thought about and  how this affects treatment Dr JaneMaree Maher / Prof. Bev Thiele
Master of Arts (100% Research)
Name Thesis Title / Topic Supervisor/s
Emily Lenton Hepatitis C, sexuality and intimate relationships Associate Prof. Suzanne Fraser / Dr Jo Lindsay
Kate Lonie Moving forward? Gender in the 2010 Australian Federal Election (pending) Dr JaneMaree Maher / Dr Nick Economou
Master of Arts (66% Research)
Name Thesis Title / Topic Supervisor/s
     
Completed
Name Thesis Title / Topic Supervisor(s) Level Year
Neeti Aryal Khanal The cradle and the gun: Maoist women’s experiences of motherhood in armed conflict in Nepal Dr JaneMaree Maher / Dr Suzanne Fraser MA 2010
Ann Brown A briefcase or a baby: The politics of reproduction (under examination) Dr JaneMaree Maher / Assoc. Prof. Maryanne Dever MA 2010
Kat Cain Babelicious Borgs: Gendered cyborgs in modernist history Dr JaneMaree Maher / Dr Rose Lucas MA 2009
Tanya Caulfield Troublesome creatures: The dowry violence phenomenon Dr Helen Johnson MA 2000
Kyllie Cripps Enough family fighting: Indigenous community responses to addressing family violence in Australia and the United States Dr Liz Reed PhD 2004
Liz Day Delusions of gender: Reading the subject through Virginia Woolf's intersubjective aesthetic in 'Orlando: A biography' Dr Maryanne Dever / Dr JaneMaree Maher PhD 2002
Fleur Diamond Rewriting the romance: Gender, sexuality and narrative in contemporary lesbian poetics Dr Heather Scutter PhD 2000
Joanna Di Mattia The hard body goes soft: Anxious men and masculinity in the films of the Clinton era Dr JaneMaree Maher PhD 2004
Elaine Duffy Contested bodies: The locations / dislocations of Indigenous women in contemporary health Dr Helen Johnson PhD 2001
Cheryl Earnshaw Representing the community: A study of political representation and citizen participation in Victorian state and local government Assoc. Prof. Denise Cuthbert PhD 2009
Vanessa Eckhaus Complicated pleasures: Pornography created for a female audience Dr Denise Cuthbert / Dr JaneMaree Maher MA 2002
Caroline Elston In search of the maternal subject: Klein, feminism and women's popular magazine narratives Assoc. Prof. Denise Cuthbert PhD 2004
Anne Elvey Gestations of the sacred: Ecological feminist readings from the Gospel of Luke Dr Kate Rigby PhD 1999
Ilsa Evans Battle-scars: Long-term effects of prior domestic violence Dr Maryanne Dever / Dr Jo Lindsay PhD 2005
Rececca Forgasz Beyond 'malestream' Judaism: Representing women in Jewish museums Dr Vicky Peel MA 2002
Zakiah Hasan Gaffar A qualitative study of decision-making processes among Indonesian women undertaking domestic work in Malaysia Assoc. Prof. Denise Cuthbert / Dr Sharon Pickering MA 2005
Jacalene Harding Affectivity, Ethics and the Everyday Dr Kate Rigby / Dr Ian Buchanan PhD 2007
Valerie Hazel Memory: An absent witness Dr Claire Colebrook PhD 2000
Millsom Henry Moving beyond otherness: (Re)veiling, (re)centring and (re)inscribing the polyvocal subjectivities of African Caribbean women across the United Kingdom Dr Denise Cuthbert PhD 2002
Lesley Instone Lines across the land Assoc. Prof. Kathy Gibson / Dr Robyn Eckersley PhD 2002
Deanne Jackel Wicked witches and violent victims: Representations in the criminal justice system and in the media of women who kill Dr Maryanne Dever MA 2001
Houri Jahanshahrad The history of the women’s movement in Iran with a special focus on the post-revolutionary era Assoc. Prof. Maryanne Dever / Prof. Marian Quartly MA 2011
Grace Lim Gender and culture in Jane Austen's novels: From a feminist perspective Dr Maryanne Dever / Dr Ann Vickery MA 2006
Patricia MacCormack Pleasure, perversion and death: Three lines of flight for the viewing body Dr Maryanne Dever PhD 2000
Myfanwy McDonald The production of intelligible gender: Dialogues between the medical and the social Assoc. Prof. Maryanne Dever / Dr Rachel Fensham PhD 2007
Jennifer Mitchell Fictions of becoming: Creativity and the post-domestic in the fiction of Drusilla Modjeska, Marion Halligan, Amanda Lohrey and Stephanie Dowrick Dr JaneMaree Maher / Assoc. Prof. Maryanne Dever PhD 2007
Kylie Moppert Women entrepreneurs: Do they create organisations with humanistic cultural value systems? Assoc. Prof. Maryanne Dever / Dr JaneMaree Maher MA 2008
Sally Newman Sites of desire: Reading the lesbian archive Assoc. Prof. Maryanne Dever / Prof. Marian Quartly / Dr Renee Hoogland PhD 2008
My Dung Nguyen Gambling: Issues and needs of Vietnamese women in Victoria Dr Denise Cuthbert MA 2003
Aquarini Prabasmoro Staging a life: Portraying femininities in the auto/biographies of Indonesian female celebrities (2000-2005) Dr JaneMaree Maher / Assoc. Prof. Maryanne Dever PhD 2011
Karolyne Quinn ‘Muscle, blood and bone’: How the body comes to matter in talk therapy Dr JaneMaree Maher/ Dr Suzanne Fraser PhD 2011
Endang Soesilowati Indonesian women's career development: A qualitative case study of women employees in the manufacturing industry Assoc. Prof. Denise Cuthbert / Dr Wendy Smith PhD 2005
Ceridwen Spark Still around again: Rethinking emplacement, displacement and Aboriginality Dr Rachel Fensham PhD 2001
Karen Sutherland Just being a girl: Female child sexual abuse and the problem(s) of embodiment Assoc. Prof. Chris Goddard / Dr Helen Johnson PhD 2002
Anna Szorenyi Collected suffering: Refugees on display in contemporary media Assoc. Prof. Denise Cuthbert PhD 2004
Akiko Tanaka The psychoanalytic family romance of femininity Dr Esther Faye PhD 2000
Claire Tanner Visions of womanhood: Gender, modernity and women’s suffrage in Victoria, 1880-1910 Prof. Marian Quartly / Assoc. Prof. Maryanne Dever / Dr JaneMaree Maher PhD 2011
Kim Toffoletti Transformations: Feminism and the posthuman Dr JaneMaree Maher / Dr Anne Marsh PhD 2003
Shermal Wijewardene Courting the ‘L’ word in India: Lesbian activism and identity work Dr Steven Angelides / Dr JaneMaree Maher PhD 2011