Ruth Barcan Ruth Barcan i(A35947 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Next Ruth Barcan , 2019 single work prose
— Appears in: Cultural Studies Review , December vol. 25 no. 2 2019; (p. 275-277)
1 Privates in Public : The Space of the Urinal Ruth Barcan , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Imagining Australian Space : Cultural Studies and Spatial Inquiry 1999; (p. 75-92) 'This essay is a preliminary analysis of...men's toilets...that architectural design influences bodily habits, and vice versa;...This is an essay, then, about bodies in space...about the design and effects (both individual and social) of one particular architectural form - the urinal - and about the laws, both formal and semiotic, that govern that space.'
1 Introduction : Imagining Space Ruth Barcan , Ian Buchanan , 1999 single work essay
— Appears in: Imagining Australian Space : Cultural Studies and Spatial Inquiry 1999; (p. 7-11) Barcan and Buchanan define what they mean by 'space'. They quote a number of philosophers and artists and state that the best way to imagine the concept of space might be 'when we cease to ask what space represents and instead inquire into what it does'. The critical essays in the collection are recognised as being 'within the transdisciplinary space of Australian Cultural Studies' and that 'the biological, geological, material world around us is discursively imagined, understood and produced, and that even our bodily perception and experience of it does not occur outside of culture and history'.
1 1 y separately published work icon Imagining Australian Space : Cultural Studies and Spatial Inquiry Ruth Barcan (editor), Ian Buchanan (editor), Nedlands : University of Western Australia. Centre for Studies in Australian Literature , 1999 Z936655 1999 anthology criticism essay

This collection of cultural studies essays looks at 'the way we construct and use space in our everyday material, psychic and social behaviours.' (Source: publisher's website.)
1 'Mobility Is the Key' : Bodies, Boundaries and Movement in Kate Grenville's "Lilian's Story" Ruth Barcan , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: Ariel , April vol. 29 no. 2 1998; (p. 31-55) Lighting Dark Places : Essays on Kate Grenville 2010; (p. 93-118)
1 Bad Mothers on TV; TV as Bad Mother : The Case of 'Noeline' Ruth Barcan , 1996 single work short story
— Appears in: Motherlode 1996; (p. 45-59)
1 Multiculturalism and the Arts Ruth Barcan , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , April vol. 14 no. 2 1995; (p. 63-64)
— Review of Framing Marginality : Multicultural Literary Studies Sneja Gunew , 1994 multi chapter work criticism ; Culture, Difference and the Arts 1994 anthology prose
1 Performing the Piano: Feminism in Five Movements Ruth Barcan , Madeleine Fogarty , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antithesis , vol. 7 no. 1 1995; (p. 13-29) Piano Lessons : Approaches to The Piano 2000; (p. 3-18)
1 Romance and Magic Realism Ruth Barcan , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 53 no. 1 1994; (p. 171-175)
— Review of The Mule's Foal Fotini Epanomitis , 1993 single work novel ; Maidenhome Ding Xiaoqi , 1993 selected work short story
1 `The "F" Word' in Fiction Ruth Barcan , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , October vol. 13 no. 3-4 1994; (p. 53-55)
— Review of A Change in the Lighting Amy Witting , 1994 single work novel ; The Wild Sweet Flowers : Alvie Skerritt Stories Marian Favel Clair Eldridge , 1994 selected work short story
1 Feminism and Literature: An Overview Ruth Barcan , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , October vol. 12 no. 3 1993; (p. 14-18)
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