Hecate articles from May 2001

Hecate archives from May 2001

Editorial.
May 1, 2001... This issue is devoted to two special Focus sections: one on the radicalism and relevance still of Eleanor Dark's novels written in the early to mid- twentieth century, one on the perspectives and practices of 19905 and current third wave...

Introduction. (Focus on Eleanor Dark).
May 1, 2001... Eleanor Dark (1901-85) was born a hundred years ago on 24 August, and this special focus commemorates that anniversary. It comprises two pieces of Dark's unpublished writing including a section from one of her last novels; a commentary upon...

Waterway: The Multilayered city; History, economics and dream. (Focus on Eleanor Dark).
May 1, 2001... Eleanor Dark wrote the beginning of Waterway in 1936 with her head full of the city on the water. She had just taken her son Michael to Manly for a few days. (Pam Brown asks, 'and is there a Sydney beach called Womanly?') They went to the...

The rational natural: Conflicts of the modern in Eleanor Dark. (Focus on Eleanor Dark).(modern woman as literary theme)
May 1, 2001... Indeed, it has been said that as the nineteenth century is associated with the rationalization of production, so the twentieth will be known as the period of the rationalization of reproduction (Havelock Ellis, 1937).(1) The social...

Surveillance and slander: Eleanor Dark in the 1940s and 1950s. (Focus on Eleanor Dark).
May 1, 2001... In 1974 Drusilla Modjeska, then a newcomer to Australia, went to Katoomba to meet the award-winning author Eleanor Dark. Despite Dark's reputation as a recluse, Modjeska found her interested in talking about the politics of the past as well as...

'Every woman a mother': Radical intellectuals, sex reform and the 'woman question' in Australia, 1890-1918. (Focus on Eleanor Dark).
May 1, 2001... ... every man is a boy and every woman is a mother. Dowell O'Reilly, 25 April 1915(1) Something that smacks of revolt, of promised freedom, of the coming age of a different law, slips easily into this discourse on sexual oppression....

Balancing the scales. (Focus on Eleanor Dark).(unpublished manuscript on role of women in society)(Brief Article)(Excerpt)
May 1, 2001... No one yet--not even the C[ommunist] P[arty] which claims the most advanced attitude towards the problem of the relationship between the sexes--has yet put the man-woman relationship upon what I should regard as a stable and satisfactory...

'A writer with a last story to write ...': From an unfinished novel by Eleanor Dark. (Focus on Eleanor Dark).(Dear Home Town)(Excerpt)(Fiction)
May 1, 2001... Introduction Among Eleanor Dark's manuscripts there are unfinished novels, fragments of stories and essays, plays never performed. This novel, untitled, bundled into a homemade cardboard folder, has as its narrator Kate Vernon, a writer....

Almost Black.(Short Story)
May 1, 2001... 'What in the hell do you think this is Joyce?' my father yelled, pushing the dried up food around on his plate with a fork. 'Is this what you call dinner? How do you expect a man to go out to work on food like this?' Mother, her lips...

The Chief.(Poem)
May 1, 2001... Minestrone the stuff that swirls oil heavy about my arms sodden elbow length gloves my stomach moulds to the stainless steel sink that purrs wetly against my navel I lean against the trough tepid through...

Rapunzel Rondo.(Poem)
May 1, 2001... I At home, in the spare room once a nursery, I sit writing dreams into stories. Cramped by four walls and a mortgage, I await my prince-- an idea, to rescue me from this ivory suburban tower. On...

Fisherwoman.(Poem)
May 1, 2001... Out of the ocean's welling she fishes ropes of sea-wrack plaits leathery straps into a canister to catch the slow drip of star milk seeping from the sky's swollen udder She winnows words from shadows sings signs...

What was the question?(Poem)
May 1, 2001... What are the questions the dunes ask the sea answers-what are the questions in'bracken and quartz -how many strands are woven into a blanket of sunset cloud-what matters to you-what is the matter with you -what is...

Oysters and Pearls at Broome.(Poem)
May 1, 2001... Green plastic are the chairs at Cafe Capri bright as the trumpeting flowers and opal seas. Pale pink and ice cold the drinks, sumptuous the treasures On our plates, oysters swallowed one by one. Out on the sluggish midday...

Waterlily Cafe.(Poem)
May 1, 2001... hanging round the waterlily where three roads meet the drifters long to enter dim caverns of their dreams knowing but not for certain that within lie pools of wide-petalled flowers white gold most translucent rose ...

Aunt Maddie.(Poem)
May 1, 2001... It's not her face but her hands that I remember. Pushed deep into trouser pockets as if searching for something lost. On hot days she walked the house naked. Quickly, to create a breeze she'd say, hugging herself,...

Left to Right.(Short Story)
May 1, 2001... in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (we enter the circle after dark and are consumed by fire) Standard Fare My grandmother is dying. Or so she says. According to her doctor, there's nothing clinically wrong with her. According to my...

Clockwork Birds.(Poem)
May 1, 2001... Clouds bamboo-flute over hills, this hollow a cooled crater in a billow of bruise-yellow fire. Deep strings make my heart pulse like blind electric fish attaching inside my ribs. If I could choose, I would sleep on the mountain...

Maybe Medusa.(Poem)
May 1, 2001... Maybe Medusa is a woman who lives with a drunk dope-smoking jazz musician who staggers home in the a.m. stinking maybe he smokes the groceries and expects her to carry his drums upstairs maybe Medusa...

Unconscious-v-consciousness.(Poem)
May 1, 2001... speech is shrinking individuals are quiet they know their place inside a bottle zonked against a wall of 21 year-olds entering heaven at 90 degrees powered by technology high speed, ecstasy, super highway, nerd...

Evidence.(Poem)
May 1, 2001... Based on the painting 'Evidence' by Linda Judge The evidence you see is a piece of cambric ripped and frayed, pinned to a black display board. What you see is not what you get Up close a painting of a piece...

Final lines of a poem.(Poem)
May 1, 2001... We had been in love a long time Really in love We knew When he said over dinner Something awful has happened I've fallen in love with a girl It's different I laughed and laughed And...

Aunt Jack.(Poem)
May 1, 2001... there is a house where my aunt went mad and burnt the dark red sugar of her dress and let the silver learn the bones of velvet stays and lied when the pope's portrait kissed her once by the cats upstairs she buried herself blue...

In the Lion Cage.(Brief Article)(Excerpt)
May 1, 2001... An extract from "Devotion," a novel-in-progress. Andrew Moore closes his eyes, grips the balustrade and lifts his face to the sky. He draws several slow, deep breaths. Minutes pass. Daytime ebbs. He waits. His body tenses. He loosens his...

Introduction: New directions in Feminist Youth Research. (Focus on Younger Women).(Hecate; overview)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
May 1, 2001... Feminist youth research marks itself out as an area within both youth studies and feminism, creating a space for critical inquiry into the lives of young people that also reflects critically on the mode of this inquiry for researchers....

Living life in the double closet: Bisexual youth speak out. (Focus on Younger Women).(social research, United States)
May 1, 2001... We develop our bisexual identities within a context in which the homosexual/ heterosexual dichotomy is institutionalised and enforced socially, politically and linguistically. (1) Traditionally, Western society has divided sexuality into...

'I'm wasting away on unrequited love': Gendering same sex attracted young women's love sex and desire. (Focus on Younger Women).(social research, Australia)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... It has long been recognised that young people are sexually active at an increasingly younger age and that a major organising principle of sex and related behaviours in young people is gender. (1) In 1996 we gathered the meanings of sex and safe...

Revisiting bedroom culture: New spaces for young women's politics. (Focus on Younger Women).(social research, United States)
May 1, 2001... Introduction In this article I argue for an investigation of recent representations of young women's civic engagement and political activism as being on the wane. I interrogate contemporary theoretical developments that seek to explain...

'I'm sorry--I'm not really sorry': Courtney love and notions of authenticity. (Focus on Younger Women).(punk music politics/punk music pain)
May 1, 2001... She has always known what she wanted and what she wanted was to be a star. Lynn Hirschberg (1) This article tells a story. In a way, it is one of the classic American dreams. It is the tale of someone--lacking in cultural capital--who...

White Picket Fences. (Focus on Younger Women).(social inequality, United States)(Column)
May 1, 2001... Class and race and gender issues have really been on my plate of late. Id like to think that its been a natural progression for me, like part of my growth as a human being, but it would probably be more honest to say that getting an education...

Linthorpe St. (Focus on Younger Women).(Poem)
May 1, 2001... and the green-leaf-light comes in your window on this hot day play at poetry you there unknown of course and (I suspect) brilliant please don't: die at thirty hide it all in a drawer ...

Letter to a Live Poet. (Focus on Younger Women).(Poem)
May 1, 2001... In Gleebooks I find you tucked away in dust and crouching here I open up landscapes of improbable beauty salt licked afternoons skies rubbished with still-visible stars sudden midnight storms ...

The Penny Dropped. (Focus on Younger Women).(Short Story)
May 1, 2001... The ad I put in the paper says: 'Broad-minded, clean, mature, responsible non-smoker to share two-bedroom flat with one other.' I'm thinking 'broad-minded' means 'gay.' I want to live with a gay guy. I ring my good friend James and tell...

The saddest man in the world. (Focus on Younger Women).(Short Story)
May 1, 2001... She'd met him buying Angel cakes up at the Newtown Bakery. She'd just paid for a dozen of her favourite strawberry, lemon and chocolate flavours for afternoon tea and then had dropped the whole packet of them tripping over a crack in the...

Too flash. (Focus on Younger Women).(Short Story)
May 1, 2001... 'Whaddya want, Gill, vegemite or jam?' asked Zoe from the kitchen bench. Turned out it wasn't Gill in hospital at all last night, but rather Sharon. She'd had a dizzy spell at work, fainted, and now they had her in for tests. The others...

The language of femininity.(Short Story)
May 1, 2001... The language of femininity, when pushed to excess, when shouted and asserted, when disruptive and demanding, makes available to the woman an illusory experience of power, previously forbidden to her by virtue of her gender. (Susan Bordo,...