Hecate articles from May 2000

Hecate archives from May 2000

Reconciliation--or Justice?
May 1, 2000... What does reconciliation mean? The concept originally emerged out of the Final Report of the Royal Commission Into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1991. The Commission investigated 99 deaths-but not one charge resulted for warders or police. It...

Body Of Evidence: Aileen Palmer's Textual Lives.
May 1, 2000... As to how historical or fictional the work will be, I quote Henry Handel Richardson, 'All is not true, but all might be true.' (Aileen Palmer) [1] The question of the archive remains the same: What comes first? Even better: Who comes...

1982.(Short Story)
May 1, 2000... Three days after New Year's Eve, Watsy and Lenny painted the Wally machine. It was an old red postal van they had to hot wire to get moving. Lenny was my boyfriend. Watsy and Lenny had driven the van to the city on New Year's Eve. That night,...

Skin Deep.(Short Story)
May 1, 2000... During the last quarter century I have developed this kind of surgery; using the advances in technology and medical knowledge to assist and satisfy many different people. It is increasingly popular in Australia. Until 30 years ago, 'making the...

The Surrogates.(Poem)
May 1, 2000... There is a picture of Karl Marx like a surrogate grandfather he stares down onto her from the thumb-stained wall. There is a picture of Virginia Woolf like a surrogate grandmother she gazes down onto her from the...

Sea Change.(Poem)
May 1, 2000... My mouth tastes salt. In blood warm water, I dissolve. Hair and limbs, old selves fan out and drift away. I cannot feel where the ocean ends and I begin. I am a wave amid waves, shadow on sharkskin. Limpid as a...

In her wake.(Poem)
May 1, 2000... She steams ahead of us, this late summer morning. We are left tumbling in her wake, struggling on the stark hook of loss. The drawn-out bedside watch gives way to after. Odd, sharp recollections ...

fields o' europe.(Poem)
May 1, 2000... now the bloody fields o' europe aren't pretty aren't nice -why'd ya say that? -shuddup now the bloody fields o' europe -fuck ya wouldn't wanna know em better: not know em again freshly hatched from the roo-sign...

To Whom It May Concern.(Poem)
May 1, 2000... She is good with people she likes and is capable of listening to the phone ring. Her body language is fluent and speaks volumes. She has an excellent grasp on the edge of her desk and has mastered the...

Company.(Poem)
May 1, 2000... 1. standing with my ticket in the queue chicken rollhoney baked ham scotch eggspork pies the baby squeaks the beginning of a cry and I should've left earlier but there was Dave's breakfast the washing to hang ...

Escaping the Celtic Tiger, World Music and the Millennium.(Short Story)
May 1, 2000... Anne Marie McGurran was driven demented by the mention of three things, the Celtic Tiger, World Music and the Millennium. She had been seen punching her fist at the sky, in a way that could not be mistaken for the action of someone at a Rock...

Interview with Evelyn Conlon.(Irish fiction writer)(Interview)
May 1, 2000... Rebecca Pelan conducted this interview with the Irish fiction writer Evelyn Conlon in Brisbane in August 1999. Evelyn, your most recent visit to Australia was as a guest of the Melbourne Writers' Festival. What role do these kinds of events...

She Assembles Herself, In the Blind Light of Morning.(Poem)
May 1, 2000... She assembles herself, in the blind light of morning. A smooth oval skull of polished bone over a sharp jawbone and with hinges connects itself to a clicking vertebrae. Snaps into shape between flat sharp shoulder blades. Two long limbs...

Mirror Mirror.(Poem)
May 1, 2000... He's gone again, one per decade and you're so high being a goddess is simple. Everywhere you go women mourn and burn, still, bellies ripped by midnight, babies eyes and toes tied. Three decades and you're free,...

Mother/Daughter.(Poem)
May 1, 2000... Now the house is where I wake again, the girls asleep like cats drawn long across the night. It is the final stroke of pen on paper, the body's line. This is my time, or purpose like emotion set on course, the burning...

Three Sisters.(Poem)
May 1, 2000... In the Burning Times I dragged you on your knees, a mother since the age of six. A father's rage had sliced my wrist for a fountain of blood. (He ate our mother whole.) And you, baby, stuck in a tree like a sick bird....

The Gift--On Learning How To Be a Girl.(Poem)
May 1, 2000... For Penny For her sixth birthday, she'd asked for a tommy-gun, A train set, a length of rope and a pocket knife. Waiting on her bed, wrapped in silver paper, Lay her father's gift. Small hands unravel the sharp, gilt-edged...

Shoalhaven Heads.(Poem)
May 1, 2000... september rain eats away at winter it enters pores the house pushes back against the sliding suburb facing down the middens across the mudflats run on by dogs flown across by clutches of hen birds ...

This Is Not a Throw Away Line.(Poem)
May 1, 2000... This is a poem for all women who hate ironing once a day seven days a week after every wash day over and over again This is a poem for all women who hate ironing once a day seven days a week after every wash day ...

My girl Natalie.(Poem)
May 1, 2000... She crosses her legs against the black metal shine of the square table buckles exposed and her soft calves are black faces of water rats grey woollen skeins in the man hole rubber boots over...

there won't be a revolution.(Poem)
May 1, 2000... these oldish ladies are assuring me in australia they smile their smile holding a cup of tea or a cup of coffee not in a long time to come looking neat and refined and demure no I wouldn't say prudish...

Kerry Chikarovski and the Press.
May 1, 2000... Socialist feminists have long argued that the media re-produce patriarchal ideology, notably, that aspect of it which sees men as belonging to the public sphere and women belonging to the private Sphere [1] and in which woman is viewed as the...

Red Belly Black.(Poem)
May 1, 2000... A red belly black slithers a welt in green felt- She'd be twenty-one today. Little and alive, less than four pounds born but born all right, in the afternoon, the sun drizzling lazily like a lizard across the mountainous belly. Red...

Secrets of a Fat Lady.(Short Story)
May 1, 2000... The Fat Ladies of circuses are secretive people. They keep the details of their lives to themselves. You can rarely tell what a circus Fat Lady is thinking. The Fat Ladies of circuses know how to hide their feelings. When they watch you,...

Ambitious Women and Strange Monsters: Simone de Beauvoir and Germaine Greer.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2000... In The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir considers the position of women who have in one way or another stood as positive examples to other women: Most female heroines are oddities: adventuresses and originals notable less for the importance...

Agony and Ecstasy: Feminists among Feminists.
May 1, 2000... Sartre to Beauvoir: 'Writing The Second Sex made you a feminist.' Beauvoir to Sartre: 'No, it was when other women read it.' This exchange should be read as 'words to that effect' rather than a direct quotation, and not only because...

The Girl Who Met Simone de Beauvoir in Brisbane, or, Must We Burn Beauvoir?
May 1, 2000... I'm currently researching the representation of histories of the second wave Australian women's movement, for example, in novels, magazines, and in academic feminist histories. And so far, the stories being told are surprisingly gloomy. What...

Daddy's Books.(Simone de Beauvoir)
May 1, 2000... Simone de Beauvoir 'took stock of the world,' as she puts it, through books. They provided her first refuge, the environment--aside from the bedroom she shared with her baby sister and her nurse--in which she defined a space and an atmosphere...

My Mother's Mouth.
May 1, 2000... The anniversary of The Second Sex is a celebration that has brought me back to Beauvoir, for her writing had not been on my desk and in my mind for some time. What I have found is both familiar and strange: 'familiar' in that one finds in...

La Fl[hat{a}]neuse: Simone de Beauvoir and Class.
May 1, 2000... In Class Struggle and Women's Liberation (1984), Tony Cliff chooses a passage from Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex as representing a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of women in the French Revolution. In Beauvoir's words: It...

Simone de Beauvoir's The Third Sex.
May 1, 2000... My first copy of The Second Sex was the 1960 Four Square paperback edition in its thirteenth reprint of 1964. I probably bought the book in 1965, because its cover bears the sign of impending decimal currency conversion: '8/ - 8oc.' I bought...

One Is Not Born, but Becomes, a Bestseller: The Publishing Politics of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex.
May 1, 2000... My essays reflect my practical choices and my intellectual certitudes; my novels, the astonishment into which I am thrown both by the whole and by the details of our human condition. They correspond to two different orders of experience which...

Of Hegelian Bondage.
May 1, 2000... In the introduction of The Second Sex, [1] Beauvoir raises the notion of woman's Otherness. In an effort to trace the development of woman's subordinate position as Other to man, she engages with the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel....

Beauvoir, Feminisms and Ambiguities.(Simone de Beauvoir)
May 1, 2000... My life is an unforged route that my steps alone will create. (Beauvoir qtd. in Simons 1999 12) As far back as I can remember, I was always proud of being the elder: of being first. Disguised as Little Red Riding Hood and carrying a basket...

Adventures of the Mind and Living Warmth: A New Encounter with Simone de Beauvoir.
May 1, 2000... Last year I read Simone de Beauvoir's letters to her American lover, Nelson Algren. I loved them. Many of them were written while researching and writing The Second Sex. I'd read the book in the mid 705 in Ireland, where it was still banned,...

What Did Beauvoir Mean?(Simone de Beauvoir)
May 1, 2000... An answer to this question might begin with a further five questions. What kind of a feminist was Beauvoir? Many of the papers in this collection report on what Beauvoir meant for women in Australia searching in their lives for various...