Hecate articles from October 2001

Hecate archives from October 2001

Editorial.(globalization, foreign relations, military conflict)(Editorial)
October 1, 2001... So Australia is also at war, again. The military-industrial-prison complex of the West is involved in a new military adventure to maintain the wealth, prosperity, profits and global influence of some of us, and Australia is repeating the 'All...

The brothers up North and the sisters down South: The Mackay family and the Frontier.
October 1, 2001... As the beneficiaries of the dispossession of Aboriginal peoples, European women, along with men were complicit in an imperialist civilising project that saw the near destruction of Australia's indigenous peoples and their language and Culture....

Am I doing the right thing?(Short Story)
October 1, 2001... In the mornings I drink tea leaning out my kitchen window, and watch dogs rifle through the rubbish at the top of the street. Across the road, at the hotel on the corner, the Canadian boy crouches in the shadow of his boss's car, smoking....

Gender and Radiance.
October 1, 2001... Described by director, Rachel Perkins, as 'the first Aboriginal film to have jokes in it (1) Radiance (2) was released in both mainstream and art-house cinemas across Australia. Audiences at the 1998 Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra film...

Edelweiss.(Short Story)
October 1, 2001... It dawns on Cynthia as she serves out the Tom Yam Goong, that she is becoming invisible. Lately, guests have interrupted anecdotes she has been relating, yet no one sees her pause, or says: 'Go on Cynthia. You were saying?' No one, breathless...

Lots of Love.(Short Story)
October 1, 2001... She was a painter--a Sydney painter. Look at her canvasses and feel red soil crumble beneath your feet--shameless frangipani--deep pink stamens thrusting from fluted hibiscus like the moist tips of eager tongues--lilies with their creamy...

The Father, the Daughter and the Holy Cross.(Short Story)
October 1, 2001... When I was twenty years old I committed one of the biggest sins in the eyes of the Greek Orthodox Church. I wasn't aware it was a sin at the time. I was doing it more to please Baba than myself. Baba had this golden memory he would retrieve on...

Finding common ground: Indigenous and Asian Diasporic cultural production in Australia.
October 1, 2001... Ours is a nation of immigrants and Indigenous peoples. A new world with an ancient past. A grand symphony with many melodies. Arnold Zable 1998 (1) These words preface the booklet that accompanied the Lost & Found art exhibition that...

Whiteness and the Australian Fiance: Framing the Ornamental Text in Australia.
October 1, 2001... Ornament is only forced to speak of the presence of order because there is some kind of absence in the visual field. It is this visual absence of order that makes the inessential excess of ornament "necessary." (1) The ornament is a form...

Reading Photographically: Translating Whiteness through the Eye of the Empire.
October 1, 2001... Ultimately photography is subversive not when it frightens, repels or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks. (1) All cultures previous to our own treated appearances as signs addressed to the living. All was legend: all...

Sexuality in East-West encounters: Shanghai Baby and Mistaken Love.(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2001... This paper examines two pieces of Chinese female writing, Shanghai Baby and Mistaken Love. (1) Shanghai Baby is a self-declared semi-autobiography by Zhou Weihui, a controversial Shanghai-based woman writer who when publishing dispenses with...

Song Cycle for Rottnest.(Poem)
October 1, 2001... (Rottnest is a very popular holiday island just off the Western Australian coast. It has an uneasy history, Aboriginal Prison, Infectious Disease Hospital, Gun Battery and, now, escapist holidays.) The people are leaving the place of the...

The Screaming Trees.(Poem)
October 1, 2001... Trees scream to live As we do, branches clutching clouds To be allowed To stand up straight. As we do. Their red wires fractured vein, cut at the foot. Blood explodes the forest wall. Our hearts gather...

The Burqua and other stories.(Poem)
October 1, 2001... My girl's words are foreign music plucked from the Hyacinth garden. Their deep roots so fine they can carve a Goddess from sand. From the lucky country. Other's children sink at first, then rise to the top like...

Matters of choice.
October 1, 2001... Right let's see you say you have chronic illness explain that i see is that really serious i don't see how that impedes you your doctor i see you have a letter or something okay well here we are running this program have a look at the booklet...

Correction and Apology.
October 1, 2001... In our last issue, the poem 'Rapunzel Rondo' was mistakenly attributed to Margaret Metz. The poem is by Helen Cerne.

Coolgardie Safe.(Poem)
October 1, 2001... Draped in wettened hessian it stood in the breezeway heart of our house through summer refresher of butter, milk left-over roasts and home-made beer. Mornings, Dad brought alive the black stove Mum hosed down safe's...

Pinata.(Poem)
October 1, 2001... She wants to begin 'Words tumble to the page like sweets from a pinata.' Her second choice, (an image stolen from Seamus) 'A dove rises in my breast' instead these words appear like bones from a grave ...

Review of 'War' by Sarah Kendall.(Poem)
October 1, 2001... Digging through your grandfather's debris you unearthed a handwritten letter linking you to World War Two. Drafting his death into your stand-up comedy routine, you bait The blinking heads with bloody, funny battle tales. But the...

Basement Lily.(Poem)
October 1, 2001... i was a redbrick girl full of money and work, mascara stuck to me like a second coat, pubs theatres foyers i cruised them all, you cruised me with the fleas jumping, and the legs of strangers ...

'Woman-Made Women': Mobilisations of nature in feminist accounts of cosmetic surgery.
October 1, 2001... Cosmetic surgery is often discussed in terms of its 'naturalness,' with references to nature found not only in the popular press, but also in considered feminist critiques of the phenomenon. These references carry with them political problems...

Nude standing (Self-portrait).(Short Story)
October 1, 2001... First Sitting She looks at me but she can't see herself yet. She can't see the saddle of my hips or the roundness of my calves. She can't see the sweep of my fringe clipped back from my forehead. She can't define the sway of my shoulders...

The productivities of pregnancy: Reviewing medical technologies and feminist critiques.
October 1, 2001... This article focuses on new understandings of gestation, generated at the intersection of the pregnant body and reproductive technologies. I argue that the operation and activity of the pregnant body have not been central to feminist critiques...

Desperate Lovers and Wanton women: Press Representations of domestic violence.
October 1, 2001... It is as if the stark 'reality' of men's violence against women is simply too awful to contemplate. It must be hedged in with discursive strategies that have the effect of deflecting attention away from the harshness of the verdict that men are...

Writing and skin.
October 1, 2001... Where does the body begin and end, where does text begin and end? This paper explores the inscription of the corporeal surface as skin, the morphology of skin as a cultural overlay, skin as a site of subjectivity, and the meeting of skin, text,...

Strip searching as sexual assault.
October 1, 2001... The issue of strip searching is not new. Women in prison have been subjected to this degrading procedure for many years. Advocates for women in prison, community workers and academics have published their concerns about the ongoing abuse of...