Hecate articles from October 2000

Hecate archives from October 2000

Sexual Politics and Trade Unions.
October 1, 2000... In this special focus, we aim to bring attention to existing pathways and to create or uncover new connections between feminism and trade unionism. Our standpoint is not so much one of feminists offering critiques of the trade union movement...

Tough Choices: News Media Accounts of Women Union Leaders.
October 1, 2000... The 1990s saw a revival of feminist interest in analysing news media representations of women in political positions. [1] In part this was probably due to the rise in numbers of elected women politicians and the concurrent achievement of...

Sisters and Sisters? Labour Movements and Women's Movements in (English) Canada and Australia.
October 1, 2000... The promise of trade unionism demands that you take risks but that then makes you vulnerable (Canadian unionist, 1998) Union women inhabit the territory where the cultures of the labor movement and the women's movement collide [1] ...

What Do Women Want from Union Representation?
October 1, 2000... Why women join unions is not a question that has elicited much interest from the industrial relations community. Despite the many studies of union organizing efforts among men, there are but few that investigate this issue in relation to women....

The Low Pink Ceiling.
October 1, 2000... Suzanne Franzway Introduction Campaigns on issues such as protection from homophobia, in the workplace, and in the trade union movement challenge sexual politics which is what lesbian and gay unionists have been doing since the early...

Bread and Roses (a)cross the Pacific.
October 1, 2000... Bread and Roses Words by James Oppenheim, 1929 As we go marching, marching, in the beauty of the day, A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts grey Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses, ...

'Change Is Slow': Indigenous Women and Unions.
October 1, 2000... Ann Flood, the recently elected Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representative on the ACTU Executive, responded to our questions about her experiences of unions. Can you tell us a little about your background? What is your country,...

The Emma Miller Award for Women Unionists.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Emma Miller is a legend. However it has taken some considerable efforts over the years in Queensland to elevate and maintain her status despite the powerful labour legends of rural male workers. Miller is particularly famous for her...

Songs Of Sexual Politics From Across The Sea.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... 1. PRAISE OUR LEADERS This song was written by the Brazen Hussies, a women's choir and performance group from Palmerston North, Aotearoa/New Zealand. It was inspired by the campaign launched by our then Tory government to develop a 'Code...

Bette Davis and her Camellias.
October 1, 2000... Prologue Every now and again-generally during the question time of a conference or seminar--I feel like an extra in a 1940s melodrama. Dashing men combat dastardly (and generally dead) theorists. Vixens give good leg while Doris Days and...

Now and Again they Snatch at Visions ...(Short Story)
October 1, 2000... 1. Within this giant box tower of grey and beige, there are rows of smaller boxes all containing formulas and patterns, accomplished sequences the silent automatons of our age. There's flesh within this den of microchip and digital...

From The Ernaeid: A Minor Local Epic in Verse.(Poem)
October 1, 2000... I stepped off the wood and Waited The ocean heaved inside, splashering; it never cared much for me, although a pretty blue. Suckle yourself into the earth I told the feet but the left heel had broken, stupid cyclone, ...

Grooves on the Flannelette Floor.(Poem)
October 1, 2000... cries of greeting fall one upon another clattering a- gainst orders for cappuccinos and flat whites those endowed juggle babies, breasts and cups white froth poises on lips odour--triple strength the...

The Moon Regrets.(Poem)
October 1, 2000... She's done it again: each month she blossoms, puts on her silver Lurex, comes out to see her face in the rushing river, the dancing reflection in her house of mirrors- spangled go-go girl, kid with sparklers in the...

Cravings.(Short Story)
October 1, 2000... 'Melbourne: fine, mostly sunny with north-easterly winds, gradually freshening, maximum temperature 29 degrees.' That Summer my mother craves basil. The fresh dull greenness of the crushed leaves chopped in crinkled folds on the pine wood...

twenty words a day.(Short Story)
October 1, 2000... Was it possible to get through a day speaking twenty words or less? That was the question she wanted to answer, today, of all days in the open air of a Sunday afternoon. Ok so the eight-year-old boy next door had visited to borrow some...

No Engels at My Table.(Poem)
October 1, 2000... To Jenny von Westphalen It's not the kolkoz-scale feeding or the dirty great laundering that I resent--but the gob of blu-tack on the dial of the washing machine- only one of the trivial bites of this minitiarised life. ...

Indian Summer.(Poem)
October 1, 2000... It's the kind of day the family calls a Geronimo Day, since the fourth child was born in an Indian Summer just like this. We sprawled on bone-white decking in the unexpected warmth that morning, under a vacant-blue sky, and the sun...

Missing the Bus.(Poem)
October 1, 2000... Tap of her shoes on the footpath the street abruptly dark Feeling air shift & from the trees the sense of damp of cold Seeing how many too many on the swings up the slide Somebody's sons voices loud & flat flick this & that Hows...

7:42pm.(Short Story)
October 1, 2000... 9:00am Sara uses a thick foundation to fill in all the gaps between the lines that are developing across her face. The eyeliner comes next. It is a dark navy liquid that she applies in thick strokes across the top of her lids. Another eyeliner...

The Black Communist: The Contested Memory of Margaret Tucker.
October 1, 2000... [Margaret Tucker] began an active life campaigning for citizen rights for her people. In 1939 she organised concert parties to raise funds for the Cumeroogunga strikers. Because of her activism she was named 'the black Communist.' [1] ...

'To Sit Down and Write That Book'.(Interview)
October 1, 2000... Chris Watson conducted this interview with Jackie Huggins at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, The University of Queensland, on 29 July 1998. Who came up with the idea for writing Auntie Rita? Well, initially my...

Silence(d) Is Death.(Short Story)
October 1, 2000... Can you care about Liza? Care about her, because without your kind of interest, your type of concern she may be lost. Just as an absent person or place may be best continually cared about, not by looking at their yellowing photograph but by...

Waves from the Shore: Women Writing the Sea in Oceania.
October 1, 2000... Nothing is ever changeless by the sea, especially land, especially places, especially people. Ken Hulme [1] On North Stradbroke Island I walk along a stretch of beach, scanning the tide line, and before long I see a shell half buried....

Ben.(Short Story)
October 1, 2000... 1 Adam pulls up his rattling car with split seats and windows that don't quite meet the frames and the glovebox stuffed with recorded cassettes of the Pixies and Violent Femmes and Nirvana and a sticker of his own band's name on the back...

Inventing Beatrice': Writing an Auto/biography.
October 1, 2000... 'Mob' was the name adopted by a group of young women who were Arts students at Melbourne University between 1928 and 1935. They saw themselves as 'a slightly chosen race of free and original spirits', resisting the conventions of their time and...

Granny's Grave.(Poem)
October 1, 2000... Signs on Street corners point not to the first white woman to live but the first to die. 1848 -- Mrs James Raddleston-- What was her first name? What did her husband call her? No details of how she died, how old, ...

The Witch-Burning.(Poem)
October 1, 2000... Give me amnesia, let me not see again in my mind her final screams. They took so long, they lasted forever, they are still going. I will see her forever in my sleep and waking her voice will not desert me. To burn is...

slippery sanky.(Poem)
October 1, 2000... slips between the bricks into your house under the door a legless cockroach: shell so smooth to slip right through. Sits waiting upon your stool, for you waiting, waiting, waiting for you to...

Annoyance in Broome.(Poem)
October 1, 2000... thud thud thud an ass with two legs and jackhammers where his feet should be. Wires cut and crossed, still no connection. He thuds out over the ocean, blood from his stumps trailing streaks in the...

After Visiting the Folk Museum at Broome.(Poem)
October 1, 2000... Pink fizzy and cold are the drinks, green plastic chairs at Cafe Capri bright as the trumpeting flowers and opal seas. Idling I watch through soft noon light, small boats trawling for fish or pearls. But what of the jewels...

Stepmothers and Stepdaughters.(Poem)
October 1, 2000... (After David Campbell's Mothers and Daughters') Daughters sit at their fathers' tables, stare at them with the mothers' cool blue eyes. They brush back thick cloned hair, flutter passed-down lashes, swell from skimpy...