Hecate articles from May 2006

Hecate archives from May 2006

Editorial.(Editorial)
May 1, 2006... From the late 1960s, there was a large shift in the anglophone West, in the Universities and the culture more generally, presenting a concerted challenge to what through the 1950s had become an increasingly uniform mainstream culture that...

'Signed up in a rebel band': Lesbia Harford re-viewed.(Biography)
May 1, 2006... How funny it would be if dreamy I Should leave one book behind me when I die And that a book of Law--this silly thing Just written for the money it will bring. I do hope, when it's finished, I'll have time For other...

'Worth our salt': Australian working class women's poetry.
May 1, 2006... How much it takes to become a writer... how much conviction as to the importance of what one has to say, one's right to say it... difficult for any male not born into a class that breeds such confidence. Almost impossible for a girl, a woman....

'Questions to second person heterosexual writing collaborations'.(Poem)
May 1, 2006... 1. To Colette (2873-2954) and Henri Gauthier-Villars (Willy) Was it selling out? Was it about being a success, having artistic clout? Why collude with the enemy twice or were you exploited? Why the mute...

'Fractured'.(Fictional work)
May 1, 2006... He wears a towelling hat. Only sometimes visible. I am walking. I have my shoes tied and looped over my shoulder. I walk tall when I am alone. I feel good about the smell of sea of wind of early morning. From nowhere he is there....

'Dive'.(Fictional work)
May 1, 2006... I am standing on the edge of a ledge. I giggle, and my mirth flecks with little silver fish darting from reef safety to sea below. The waves lick my calves and I dig my toes into the weeds and barnacles. My ankles are cool and the sun is...

Bayram.(Poem)
May 1, 2006... bayram rotten pomegranate, car part, shack fall, fire fuel the policy of yes is a benign entrapment like your poled bird, winter convalesces with its blue hull exposed, waiting for me an opal eye stolen by an opal...

Caracoles.(Poem)
May 1, 2006... caracoles a man hands you half a lemon in a bowl two perfect parabolas inverted the living part stuck with pins in its pockmarked skin a man hands you a bowl of boiled spirals the other women...

The Outing.(Poem)
May 1, 2006... The Outing You see her in those shadowy cheap cafes lining any street at any time: a woman no longer young her once-bright eyes blank with solitude with grief pain dreams lost in the rushing tide of life poised...

Eggs.(Poem)
May 1, 2006... Eggs my ovary eyes see babies everywhere mio ouve stanno morire they see me too play peek a boo with me on buses mueren mis huevos or crane their necks as their prams pass to say hello ...

Margaret thorp and the anti-conscription campaign in Brisbane 1915-1917.(Biography)
May 1, 2006... History is presented from the... standpoint of conquest and power, of kings and bloody wars, whereas the emphasis should be laid upon the great struggling movements of the people towards social justice and economic freedom. (1)--Margaret Thorp...

Voices in the wind.(Short story)
May 1, 2006... At nine o'clock on Friday night the island's generator failed. The men had gone to the mainland for their night off. The sea was turbulent. The manager was away, which left only Mara at the helm, ostensibly to cook for a bunch of laid-back...

Seduction and resistance, baptism and 'glassy metaphorics': Beatrice Grimshaw's journeys on Papua's great rivers.(Biography)
May 1, 2006... Beatrice Grimshaw was born at Cloona House, Dunmurry, on the outskirts of Belfast in 1870. Influential in the development of spinning and weaving industries in the north of Ireland the Grimshaws were a prominent family in Belfast throughout...

Mishka *.(Short story)
May 1, 2006... From the moment he left the apartment, Mishka had a sense of massive risk. His life was in danger. He knew it as surely as he knew how to play Beethoven: that is to say, without giving the matter any thought. His hands knew what to do. The...

Dal dy Dir/ stand your ground: international lessons on women's equality from a small nation.
May 1, 2006... In a nondescript office block overlooking Cardiff Bay, an extraordinary moment of political history was played out this week. It passed without any great fuss or fanfare in the wider world, but, in the long history of women's struggle for...

Women and franchise in agricultural organisations: a case study of the Australian sugar industry.
May 1, 2006... This paper is concerned with women's franchise in agri-political groups, and specifically, the gendered voting system of the Australian agricultural organization, CANEGROWERS. The Australian sugar industry covers three states, but is largely...

'Father'.(Fictional work)
May 1, 2006... My father had tried to kidnap me the year before. He wasn't interested in my elder sister, just me. Arriving after class, in his '70s bucket-seat station wagon, he said he'd come to teach me the electric violin. 'But I play the piano,' I...

Summer's End.(Poem)
May 1, 2006... Summer's End That was the day summer cracked the wood planked steps so the grass could get in and I squinted from the blue saw dead skin on the heels of my feet for the first time. Firebanned, the sun came down...

Archaeology of a House.(Poem)
May 1, 2006... Archaeology of a House I The house aches, all its blue rooms echoing a phantom pain. The window glass melts, becomes a framed suspension of tears. The lath and plaster cracks, a web of...

Energene.(Poem)
May 1, 2006... Energene Energene, I shiver now it is June Has been so long, will you come back soon? More tired by day and my nights are lean I bed early wishing you, re-convene. To move with me under the arced moon I watch...

Scarlet Fever.(Poem)
May 1, 2006... Scarlet Fever 'Blood and bone made the poppies grow,' Fleur wrote in her memoir, already corrupted by previous editors before it got to my friend. Fleur was a nurse in the second world war. In peace time blood, the red rum...

Cleaning house on a day off instead of writing.(Poem)
May 1, 2006... Cleaning house on a day off instead of writing Days roll balls of dust, a parade of domestic pollutions; ashtrays, coffee cups & the after breakfast mess with the burnt toast smell invading each room And today's...

Circus Apprentice.(Poem)
May 1, 2006... Circus Apprentice I'm learning it all--acrobatics, clowning, riding bareback and trapeze, fire from a sleeve: my hand's a wand. I weave my life round dancing elephants who spray the air while turning their...

Sex after school.
May 1, 2006... 'I think you'd better read this.' Matthew looked up at his aunt, standing beside him at the kitchen bench. That was an uncompromising command. Scarey! He bent to the folder of printed pages that she had slapped in front of him. He slid his...

A new age?: Australian feminism and the 1940s.
May 1, 2006... 'Women have grown up', asserted Mrs M. Warhurst during the regular United Associations of Women radio broadcast on 2GB in Sydney in January 1944. 'Troublous times and serious tasks have served to show what little effort was required for the...

'Mad woman in the Burqa': Muslim women as exemplar feminists.
May 1, 2006... No letters please from British women who have taken the veil and claim it's liberating. It is their right in a tolerant society to wear anything, including rubber fetishes.... (1) Dilemma By way of introduction I would like to pose a...

'La tristesse'.(Short story)
May 1, 2006... Vincent Van Gogh's 'Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers' hung on the wall of the solicitor's waiting room. She remembered that the same print had hung above the king-sized bed in the honeymoon suite where her marriage had begun fifteen...

'Ena's heart made a sound that no one heard'.(Short story)
May 1, 2006... ena's heart made a sound that no one heard except for esma, late at night, with her ear pressed to the wall. you might have thought that the leaves and shadows from the gardens opposite would have blocked out the noise of that single pulse,...