Hecate articles from May 2005

Hecate archives from May 2005

Editorial.(Editorial)
May 1, 2005... Having arrived at a rather uncharacteristic emphasis upon white middle class women's feminism in this issue, I decided to look at some Iraqi and Arab women's website material to address the incommensurability of the experience of women in Iraq...

The academy as kitchen - subversive perspective on the (prehistoric) paradigm of 'women-in-the-kitchen.'
May 1, 2005... 1. The kitchen as reference point I started in the academy in 1982 and since 1996 have been largely in 'management' positions in universities. I have developed an academic career along the way to the position I hold now, as one of the few...

Jiff at Midnight.(Fictional Work)
May 1, 2005... My four-year-old son starts kinder tomorrow. He is ready. I am not ready. So, like the women of my family I am in the kitchen at midnight scrubbing pots with Jiff. All the women in my family scrub our troubles away. I search through...

The Evening Hag.(Poem)
May 1, 2005... The Evening Hag Trees waver in the breeze, some bare as crones bent over a book or a cauldron. Do you remember the hag Pressed against our windows On windy nights? Maybe she cackled, Maybe she didn't, but she...

The Drover's Wife.(Poem)
May 1, 2005... The Drover's Wife Baked beans were originally sold with treacle. An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles. A row of kisses (xxxx) (the mark of St. Andrew). Dividing by zero is forbidden! On the horizon:...

The First Seed: Emily Kame Kngwarreye 1910-1996.(Poem)
May 1, 2005... The First Seed Emily Kame Kngwarreye 1910-1996 I am, we are... my mother and my mother's mother and my people's mothers back to the Dreamtime. I paint, 'whole lot, that's all, whole lot awelkye (my dreaming), ...

Dream Journal.(Poem)
May 1, 2005... Dream Journal 1. Black snake sheds skin... In early-morning light I watched a snake ensnared in old, slack skin struggling to free itself, trapped inside a sac resembling magnified and thickened...

Mount Belles.(Poem)
May 1, 2005... Mount Belles 1. Trafficking--a bird's-eye view Your restless, telescopic eye scans northern mountains' knuckled spines, where women move across the scree like puppets on slack wires. Searching for stray...

Interview with Anna Couani by Anne Brewster.(Interview)
May 1, 2005... AB: Let's start by asking you some questions about Italy. One of the things that interested me in that book was that you seem to be engaging directly with the tradition of novel writing. Would you like to say something about your thoughts about...

A turned over a new leaf.(Cartoon)
May 1, 2005... A Turned Over A New Leaf.. THEN I TURNED OVER ANOTHER ONE AND ANOTHER AND ANOTHER AND ANOTHER AND ANOTHER AND ANOTHER AND ANOTHER AND ANOTHER AND ANOTHER AND ANOTHER TILL I NEEDED A LEAF BLOWER TO SORT OUT MY LIFE. OFF TO BED! ...

Lone mothers in liberal welfare states: thirty years of change and continuity.
May 1, 2005... Thirty years ago, statutory welfare benefits for lone mothers were introduced in a number of liberal welfare states (1) (including in both Australia and New Zealand in 1973). Over the same period, complex demographic and social changes have...

No 'ordinary day': The Hours, Virginia Woolf and everyday life.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2005... Women artists have always played a leading role in integrating art and life... To recognise this as a superior rather than an inferior aesthetic changes everything. (1) There have been a number of recent biopics about twentieth-century...

The smile.(Fictional Work)
May 1, 2005... 1948 As the land gets closer and closer, as the ship bears down on its final destination, as docking at Station Pier gets underway, as all on board begin to flutter and focus, in panic, joy or resignation regarding what comes next, the...

Schemes and dreams: young Australians imagine their future.
May 1, 2005... Introduction The individualization thesis has become popular among sociologists, arguing that globalization and the risk society have produced a 'new modernity' or a 'second modernity' in which people, particularly the young and the...

A fugitive moment of grace: life story, migration and Vietnamese-Caledonian women.
May 1, 2005... Introduction When I first arrived in New Caledonia I learnt that a small and lively Vietnamese community existed and that rice was a staple food in most households. I have since discovered that few people beyond New Caledonia's shores know...

The Foreigner I Know.(Poem)
May 1, 2005... The Foreigner (1) I know is an exploration into foreignness through an autobiographical poetic and visual narrative. It aims to signify the potency of personal encounters and the efficacy of laying bare that which is not easily perceived, that...

Acrobat for Jean Kent.(Poem)
May 1, 2005... Acrobat for Jean Kent Turn the corner, see the silvery wattle and you're there. A poet's place, half-hidden by the garden. She'll meet you at the gate. The day will be winter, crisp and clear: mineral water and...

House sale.(Poem)
May 1, 2005... House Sale This morning the Salvos came to the ravished house to ok away the bridal suite, his and her Maplewood 'robes that had followed them from town to dusty western town the perfectly round forties...

The Daily Coracle.(Poem)
May 1, 2005... The Daily Coracle she's almost over the depression it's just every morning she wakes in a noxious puddle of bilge water at the bottom of her tiny coracle she has to rinse herself ...

Window-free.(Poem)
May 1, 2005... Window-free hello bat-mouse curling in my fluid balloon do you enjoy my plush red manchester my extravagant fuschia plumbing? do you enjoy my liquid resonance as you pulse and swim window-free? just...

Returning.(Poem)
May 1, 2005... Returning The ceiling fan cuts and pastes memories the photo album is playing excited host Anna's plate is draped with sweets, fruit, meat glass never emptied of the Island's best carrying a full smile all day, her...

Glass Woman, Owl House.(Poem)(Biography)
May 1, 2005... Glass Woman, Owl House (on Helen Martins, Outsider artist, South Africa) Nieu Bethesda. In this desert village springwater channels square through rock and white patterned lives, relegating black to oblique dry seams and...

Becoming woman.(Poem)
May 1, 2005... Becoming woman i I write myself on the page not as the universal T, but 'woman' padding the tide's morning surf. a camera lucida of memory catches Broken Bay in the earnest scurry of soldier crabs, the whoop of...

Looking after Cecily.(Fictional Work)
May 1, 2005... We've been on the road for days and now I'm back where I started. Under these massive Moreton Bay figs, the white sky rushing behind sheltering leaves. I'm digging at my heels with a stick, picking out smashed fruit and leaf-litter, just like...

Larger than life.(disappearing women leave imprints)
May 1, 2005... Inhabitants of a beach-side Sydney suburb were disturbed today when they discovered that a number of women had disappeared from their area over summer. The case is unusual in that each woman had left behind the shape of her body. One left a...

Shoes that light up: women's memoirs of illness and disability.
May 1, 2005... Following a protracted illness and the diagnosis of an autoimmune condition, I became interested in the question of what kind of meanings are made of illness in Western countries where, supposedly, world standard medical care is available and...

Putting the Queensland woman suffrage movement into its wider context.(Aubrey Oldfield)(Transcript)
May 1, 2005... Thank you for asking me to share in this tribute to the work of Queensland women who fought so long and hard for their vote. Other speakers about these individual Queensland suffragists and their work * will be using material which has been...

Nellie Alma Martel and the Women's Social and Political Union, 1905-09.
May 1, 2005... Nellie Martel's suffrage work in Australia The Commonwealth Franchise Act (June 1902) ensured the right of all Australians (with the regrettable exception of Aboriginal people and other non-white groups) to vote in, and stand for, all...

Six Queensland women parliamentary pioneers.
May 1, 2005... Introduction With the passing of the Elections Acts Amendment Act on 25 January 1905 Queensland became the second last state in Australia to enfranchise its women. Victoria was the last state three years later. Despite its tardiness in...

Citizens of the world: Jessie Street and international feminism.(Biography)
May 1, 2005... Jessie Street took part in her first international conference of women in 1914, and worked for political reform in Australia and within the international feminist network in the interwar years. In 1945 she was the only woman appointed to...