Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 'Mother? Nature?' : Germaine Greer, Contemporary Feminisms and New Materialisms
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'Greer has long-recognised a historical connection between women and the natural world as exploited, abused or undervalued in patriarchal societies. Greer has long recognised a historical connection between women and the natural world as exploited, abused or undervalued in patriarchal societies. In this column she discussed issues related to her Essex property: the native flora and fauna, her domestic animals, the challenges of growing certain plants, the treatment of livestock, her neighbours and village life, as well as commenting upon national environmental issues such as advocating for the wider use of wind power. Despite The Female Eunuch's widespread popularity, numerous translations, re-prints, as well as its influence on the formation of many second-wave Anglophone feminist critical theorists, the book remains largely unconsidered within feminist scholarship (Taylor et al. 1). Yet, there is much in the content of the book that demonstrates that not only was Greer on the pulse of contemporary unspoken concerns and desires, but she was radically forward-thinking in her perspectives on the human body, its relationship to the natural world and the limitations of the dominant, gendered, cultural attitudes of the mid-twentieth century.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Hecate vol. 44 no. 1/2 2018 18645999 2018 periodical issue

    'In 2011 the Gillard government passed legislation regarding passports that allowed the choice of an X gender on them with the selection of gender not depending upon medical intervention, and in 2013 amended the Sexual Discrimination Act to make discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and intersex people illegal. In 2004, the Howard government had amended the Marriage Act to exclude same-sex marriage; in 2009 the Rudd government brought in legislation to remove discrimination for same-sex couples in 1985 Federal laws. Australia certainly has a plentiful supply of the former, though the still expanding oil industry is a major contributor to Australia having one of the worst records in the world on carbon reduction in relation to industry and export especially in relation to fossil fuels (and metals) extraction and trading. [...]if the big fossil fuel companies operating in Australia paid more tax- and one third pay none at all-there would be capital available for more investment and community involvement in sustainable energy generation. Morrison also signed off on what was agreed to be-at the Pacific Islands Forum urging global efforts to limit warming to 1.5 degrees-"critical to the security of our blue Pacific," but the LNP has no plans to develop a policy to substantially transition from fossil fuels to sustainable energy sources, even though recent developments continue to make this energy cheaper.' (Carole Ferrier, Editorial introduction)

    2018
    pg. 156-170
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