Hecate articles from October 2002

Hecate archives from October 2002

Editorial.(feminism East and West)(Editorial)
October 1, 2002... International solidarity among women is today perhaps more pressing than it has ever been, urged daily as we are in the West to patriotic support for wars for oil and wars against terror. Diane Bell suggests in Susan Hawthorne and Bronwyn...

Across the threshold: White women and chinese hawkers in the white colonial imaginary.
October 1, 2002... One of the best-known images of the Chinese in colonial Australia was created by Livingstone Hopkins (Hop), the Bulletin's chief cartoonist from 1883 to 1913, and it captured White Australia's image of the life of the Chinese man in the...

Poetry and Indonesian women.(speech by poet Harry Aveling)(Poem)(Transcript)
October 1, 2002... As an Indonesian writer, I am continuously challenged by the condition of my own country. Of course, I am not alone in this. Almost every Indonesian writer is forced to face the political, social, religious, and humanitarian problems we see all...

Angel on the water.(Short Story)
October 1, 2002... Her angel has gigantic wings; layers of shining feathers, each bursting with tensile light, packed all golden moist, honeyed like glistening toffee. She sits just above the water, on the second bottom step of the old Customs House. ...

Janette Turner Hospital's The Last Magician: 'A feminist's nightmare'?(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2002... Janette Turner Hospital's novels do not engage with any singular feminist agenda. Indeed, Laurel Bergmann suggests that Turner Hospital's commitment to feminism is 'constant' but 'shifting', (1) and she links characters in Charades to specific...

The immense tea cosy.(Short Story)
October 1, 2002... 1. The Husband Rick plasters down his black hair with expensive gel. His hair is always threatening to get out of control. It is the only thing about himself which he hates. In the mirror, he sees that he is beginning to look-not young. It...

Nuclear terrorists: Patty Hearst and the terrorist family.
October 1, 2002... Introduction: Terrorist fiction before terrorist fact Someone had kidnapped her and kidnapping always had a reason, however twisted it might be. Ransom, maybe, she reflected... the senator was a wealthy man and could be counted on to raise...

The qualities of that love.(Excerpt)
October 1, 2002... cool reality ordinary, not extraordinary-looking, 2 plain girls in plain clothes, in tracksuit pants, no lipstick, one hood and a denim jacket walking down the street in sync, cool sync, just to buy cow's milk for ya coffee and you know...

Kristeva and an archaeology of sources and translation.(Julia Kristeva's essay 'Stabat Mater')
October 1, 2002... In studying the work of international scholars, such as Julia Kristeva, we are often dependent upon translations to give us access to their ideas and analyses. Fortunately there are now good translators who quickly provide the English-speaking...

What the survivors said.(Poem)
October 1, 2002... What the Survivors Said. My mother took baby knitting to Nambucca in '48, when she and Dad went off on their honeymoon. In Dad's family, knitting needles were something for fixing up not-the-full-quid cousins who got themselves into...

To my son.(Poem)
October 1, 2002... To My Son. When I was a child the world went mad. Standing on its head shook dark and evil forces from secret pockets. Meadow were bright with wild flowers but on that fragrant carpet some gave their life. Yellow...

Sleazy Jobs alternative work-1990s, South Australia.(Poem)
October 1, 2002... Sleazy Jobs alternative work-1990s, South Australia Foxy Boxer She met some guy at a wet T-shirt show didn't win not the tits the crowd wanted didn't care got pissed he gave her a job four weeks...

Fish in an Urban Landscape.(Poem)
October 1, 2002... Fish in an Urban Landscape An inner city landscape in greys and mauves washes over, blocks in twilight, folds outside in carries numbness with feelings unwrapped - like her memory of the fish. When the woman was a child, confined...

Beat the rugs on Saturday migrant life-1970s, Melbourne.(Poem)
October 1, 2002... Beat the rugs on Saturday migrant life-1970s, Melbourne. on the floor they work all day English classes after lunch room full then a shopping bag rush through tram doorways to home to cook the family's tea do the wash and clean...

The pineapple princess.(Poem)
October 1, 2002... The Pineapple Princess. After Gia Mitchell's Installation with Photographs: Mutton Dressed as Lamb, 1998 She is a doll, alive and better than Barbie although their vital statistics equate. Framed photographs above and on the long...

Caroline Herschel & the stamp of near fame.(Poem)
October 1, 2002... Caroline Herschel & the stamp of near fame. the ebb of calculations & deductions. all night star seducing. exhausting tea making & sidereal astronomy. collapsing horse manure into glue to hold the heavens straight. a soprano waiting...

The questions.(Poem)
October 1, 2002... he asks her why she writes: she can sip Cuba in. shuffle a side-show into a sentence. she uses it to smell for home. playing marbles with apostrophes. laughing in capital letters. weeping by proxy. to her, question marks look curvy, kinda...

Cheer-squad news.(Poem)
October 1, 2002... Cheer-squad news Cheer-squad tv news/is telling us that real men/have accomplished what/they have accomplished My mother tries/to cook/the cat chews on the carpet My mother gets angry/at the cat/gets under her feet when she...

Women in/and media today.(Panel Discussion)(Transcript)
October 1, 2002... Simone Murray An impetus behind this seminar was the recent fate of cultural studies at Birmingham. The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) opened in 1964 as a postgraduate research unit analysing popular culture and exploring...

Two.(Short Story)
October 1, 2002... She will move into our house on the weekend. It will be her house too and I must get used to this. There are no walls in our home. I haven't shut a door in months. If I need to, I slam a drawer. I can hear everything: the toilet flushing,...

Assessment.(Fictional Work)
October 1, 2002... respite care? looking down this list you do not appear to fit any of our categories however your doctor rang and rang so in the end I was the one asked to come and see you here in the home I see you are not in bed? now what is the problem?...

Haloed woman.(Poem)
October 1, 2002... Haloed Woman The woman stands under the street lamp head and shoulders light-haloed feet and legs lost in shadow she is sinking through the pavement into a pool of blackness. She is gazing intently into the brightly lit window...

Armed.(Poem)
October 1, 2002... Armed Into your arms I walked you did not know I carried a gun I did not know you kept a bomb under your hat we were so polite. I slid my gun under your bed I wanted to sleep you didn't want me to sleep I reached for my gun...

The old Porsche.(Poem)
October 1, 2002... The old Porsche. the man in the wheelchair is right: a perfect day kids' fluffy clouds in a cobalt sky grass newly green smoky-blue hills frame painted trees the river idles over stones to reach ...

Art and life.(Poem)
October 1, 2002... Art and life. if Western art's finest picture of the Virgin and Child is in the Book of Kells the most erotic must surely be in the Belfast Museum the Carrickfergus Madonna half smiles knowing how complex the mother-son bond...

The woman you once knew.(Poem)
October 1, 2002... The woman you once knew Her body has changed 273 billion times Since you last touched it. Each change was imperceptible, but absolute. Perhaps you recall the small things: the beginnings of a mole you once inspected...

Girl.(Poem)
October 1, 2002... girl sometimes I am the thick black peace suspended between pulses numb and exquisite, bound in a plastic freedom oh mannequin-impossible-- twisting frozen object for the eye. to be forgotten and rotten is different from...

An artist in the WAAAF: Elsa Russell's war.(Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force)
October 1, 2002... Introduction World War Two was a watershed experience for many young women, especially those who entered previously masculine domains of work for the duration. Relatively well paid and often living independently of their families for the...

Angie.(Fictional Work)
October 1, 2002... Christmas, 1997 It's funny, they say you can't remember smell, or taste, or pain, but I do. That's what I think of when I remember what he did to me that night. I remember his stench and the rusty taste of blood in my mouth. I suppose I...

Efflorescence: the letters of Georgiana Molloy.
October 1, 2002... 'I never met with any one who so perfectly called forth and could sympathise with me in my prevailing passion for Flowers' (1) wrote Georgiana Molloy, one of the earliest settlers at Augusta in Western Australia, in the midst of her obsession...

Dorothy Hewett (21 May 1923-25 August 2002).
October 1, 2002... She is buried in the small bush cemetery at Springwood in the Blue Mountains where she lived with Merv for the past decade. The tall gums whispered, the air was cool and clean, and people of all ages mingled and remembered, and then threw...

'Birthing against genocide' 1999 Part 1. Oils on hardwood. (Commentary).
October 1, 2002... The artwork communicates an art language that draws on narratives of the Aboriginal dreaming, the place of birthing, my people, my country, lore, ritual, spirituality and beliefs. It expresses in iconography, bold, sharp forms in contrast to...