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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... vol. 46 no. 1/2 January 2020 of Hecate est. 1975 Hecate
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On 31 December 2019 the World Health Organisation China Office was informed of a cluster of cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology in Wuhan, a city of 10m people, 700 km inland from Shanghai. The disease was named COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 on 11 February, after the first case in Australia was notified in Melbourne on 25 January. Within a few months, major shifts in everyday life would occur, for people around the world. Thousands, and then millions, and then hundreds of millions of people were pushed back into the home—entire populations where lockdowns were declared, and these meant that many jobs were lost or had an uncertain future continuation. Women were disproportionally represented in this group and, because of still-prevalent ideations of a male breadwinner for the household and of female roles in the home, far fewer women than men have returned to work outside it. In addition, in many paid occupations, "working from home" (when it could be done with phone and computer technology) became very widespread—and it has persisted for many people for all of their paid work time, or some of that time, even when returning to the office was possible, or encouraged. Many people in Australia declared that they preferred this, at least for some days of the week, because it removed the time spent travelling to the workplace or getting offspring to childcare —and many businesses were keen to reduce or even eliminate their office space. They perceived this as saving money, as did the workers in relation to the cost of travel or, quite often, of childcare (and this also led to job losses in that female-dominated sector). ' (Carole Ferrier , Editorial introduction)

 

Notes

  • Only literary material within AustLit's scope individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:

    Celebrating enigmas: Re-examining Gertrude Stein's relationship to the literary canon by Esme James

    Rape myths and rape spaces in Rosie Price's 'What Red Was' and Miriam Toews' 'Women Talking'  by Emma Turner; Kristine Moruzi 

    The hidden goddess: The erasure and pseudo-empowerment narrative of the goddess in 'Wonder Woman' 2017 by Gabiann Marin

    Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:

    The limits of (be-)longing: An ode to the edge of gender by Yael Klangwisan

Contents

* Contents derived from the 2020 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Fiona Foley as Provocateur : The Art / Life Nexus, Louise Martin-Chew , single work essay
'Fiona Foley identifies as a provocateur. This term, defined as "a person who deliberately behaves controversially in order to provoke argument or other strong reactions", is evident in the art she makes, her recent academic career, her public statements, writing and persona. In my recent biography, 'Fiona Foley Provocateur: An Art Life', I endeavour to describe the courage that this political positioning has always, and continues, to require from her. At its relentless heart is her family lineage which includes notable leaders, especially her mother Shirley Foley, whose vision for land on K'gari involved restoration of Badtjala possession of this special "paradise." Fiona's fight for justice extends to all Indigenous people, and more broadly to reconciliation, to the embrace of what she describes as the difficult, "shared" histories of those descended from Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations and incoming colonist and settler populations.' (Publication abstract)
(p. 14-43)
Stripping, Veiling, and Inscribing : Devising the Body in the Works of Sylvia Plath, Imtiaz Dharker, Shirin Neshat, and Randa Abdel-Fattah, Devaleena Das , single work essay
'Approaching through the lens of transnational corporeal feminism, this article reflects upon the veiled, inscribed, and stripped bodies as the rhetoric of protest and site of justice negotiation in the works of Sylvia Plath, Imtiaz Dharker, Shirin Neshat and Randa Abdel-Fattah. Undeniably, the root of sexism, racism, homophobia, ableism, and ageism lies in the forceful denial, or attempt to erase the bodily existence, of the marginalised other. Corporeal feminism is about revealing this purposeful denial of “unwanted” bodies and the structural process of terrorising and monstracising those bodies. Above all, it is not enough to kill those bodies or let those bodies die: more importantly, the bodies must be a spectacle of shame, what Jasbir Puar calls "debilitation" in her book 'The Right to Maim'. The bodies of the oppressed are the site of fear for the oppressor and hence become the space to prove the oppressor’s superiority of maleness, whiteness, and ableism. This article examines the strategic feminist praxis of embodied epistemology and how the assaulted, shamed, veiled, and erased bodies could be weaponised in feminist consciousness raising.' 

(Publication abstract)

(p. 44-46)
The Dark Wood, Carol Chandler , single work short story (p. 85-90)
Trousers, Katrina Finlayson , single work prose (p. 91-110)
Cleaving, or, Rereading Rewriting Sexual Difference and Other Distractions during This Time of Plaguei"now for the masquerade—what’s new", Marion Campbell , single work poetry (p. 111-117)
Monique Wittig’s Rattlesnakei"Each skin-shed adds", Marion Campbell , single work poetry (p. 118-119)
The Waysidei"Whither whirled my friend?", Matina Doumos , single work poetry (p. 119)
The Witch Upstairsi"In the palm of my bed I lie cradled", Matina Doumos , single work poetry (p. 120)
I Could Be a Heroi"Ride forth on the appointed day", Janet Fraser , single work poetry (p. 122)
The Stingrayi"You've forgotten about poetry", Kathryn Lomer , single work poetry (p. 123)
A Paean to Bonesi"Cleaning out my son's bedroom", Kathryn Lomer , single work poetry (p. 124-125)
Towni"Everything is smaller: the cenotaph with its gilt", Kathryn Lomer , single work poetry (p. 126-127)
Second Day of Springi"If you sit here long enough you begin to know", Kathryn Lomer , single work poetry (p. 128-129)
Oma's Poole Tea Set Circa 1953i"My burden is twintone: peach bloom and seagull", Emily Barker , single work poetry (p. 129)
Heritage, Dorothy Simmons , single work prose
'She did not live there, but from the first day of September 1934 when her burnt and battered body was discovered, her shocking death made headlines in the local paper.' (Introduction)
(p. 130-136)
Red Sky in the Morningi"Old stone cold stone calvinist city", Dorothy Simmons , single work poetry (p. 137)
Family Men and the Women They Murdered : A Critique of Popular Press Reporting of Three Crimes in Australia, Janine Little , single work essay
'This essay targets a version of the "family man," in media cultural representation, that serves patriarchal and capitalist interests as a gendered figure of social/structural support for violence against women. It reads three violent crimes where white, middle-class men in conventional, ideated family roles murder the women who are either married to, or estranged from them. I locate aspects of media coverage of the crimes that run contrary to a public narrative of outrage about "domestic" violence and "family" violence that feeds into a more general, neoliberal tendency of sounding progressive without being politically so, identified, among others, by Faith Agostinone-Wilson in 2020.

Analysis of media texts shows that concerted efforts to identify multi-faceted expressions of men's privilege are a way to resist even subtly naturalised forms of men’s violence against women. Extreme and lethal instances of this violence (as victims' "family" experience) are reported ever more frequently. The project of insisting upon the implicit connections between notions of white middle-class normalcy and the stereotypical family to structurally supported, gendered violence is reaffirmed as necessarily disruptive.' (Publication abstract)
(p. 138-163)
The Infinite Impossibility of Her Life, Shelley James , single work short story (p. 183-185)
Hagi"Once upon a time mourning", Janet Fraser , single work poetry (p. 186)
Deep Wateri"Fish, as far as i can travel into the beyond of the splendour of memory ago", Pym Schaare , single work poetry (p. 224-225)

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