Hecate articles from October 2004

Hecate archives from October 2004

Editorial.(Editorial)
October 1, 2004... This issue of Hecate includes a special Focus section on the struggle for women's suffrage in Australia and, in particular, women's gaining the vote in the Queensland State parliament in 1905. Australian women (mainly those considered to...

The struggle for women's suffrage in Queensland.
October 1, 2004... Introduction Several failed attempts were made to extend the franchise to women in Queensland between 1890 and 1904 (1) before success was finally achieved by the passing of the Elections Acts Amendment Act in early 1905. They must be seen...

One-woman-one-vote: Annie Lane, 'Lucinda Sharpe' and the female franchise in late-nineteenth century Queensland.
October 1, 2004... You see a canvasser called at our house the other day and affectionately inquired after Mr Sharpe. Mr Sharpe was out, but Mrs Sharpe was at home, whereupon my canvasser... proceeded to endeavour to find out from me which way...

Writing from the contact zone: fiction by early Queensland women.(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2004... In her memoir, My Australian Girlhood (1902), the Queensland--born colonial novelist Rosa Praed claims to speak for a voiceless--and vanishing--people: [W]ho cares now about the joys and sorrows, rights and wrongs of savages who...

Caste-ing the vote: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voting rights in Queensland.
October 1, 2004... In early 1947 Prime Minister Chifley requested all State Premiers to send, as soon as possible, a summary statement of the legal and civil status of Aborigines in their respective states because 'during the past few months overseas countries...

'There is no question more perplexing at the present time and more frequently discussed than women's place in society': Leontine Cooper and the Queensland suffrage movement, 1888-1903.
October 1, 2004... Leontine Cooper firmly believed that 'till women have a political vote... no real amelioration of their position can take place'. (1) Short-story writer, journalist, teacher and bi-lingual scholar, she was Queensland's most significant writer...

Only a woman.(Reprint)(Short Story)
October 1, 2004... 'The world was made for man, but only the one-twelfth part of the man was made for women,' says the old physician, Sir Thomas Browne. 'If the lion had made the monument, things might have shown the other way around,' growled the lion to his...

Suffragette.(Poem)
October 1, 2004... In solidarity with working class suffragettes, Lady Constance Lytton, daughter of the first Viceroy of India, went to prison disguised as a seamstress, Jane Warton. This, her third imprisonment, took place in Liverpool, England January 1910....

Time.(Brief Article)(Poem)
October 1, 2004... Time The cloisters are a space of endless pacing where time lingers like the sunlight in the smell of stone A jacaranda blooms here in January rich blue with a wash of mauve against the leaves...

Yellow Moon.(Brief Article)(Poem)
October 1, 2004... Yellow Moon The moon is lolling on her back Banana-shaped, on her banana lounge, Getting placid and fat. Such a good girl, pale gold and haloed. Sanctimonious as some florist's bloom, Pure and still as milk and...

Fauchery's Parrots.(Brief Article)(Poem)
October 1, 2004... Parrots gather in immense swarms, and usually in the least hidden parts of the woods... the trees are many-coloured and the ground is nothing but a living carpet, where rubies, turquoises, emeralds and opals twine together in wild arabesques....

Villanelle, a Writer's Hell.(Brief Article)(Poem)
October 1, 2004... Villanelle, A Writer's Hell I fill my cup with coffee the morning spills away the day is drinking me the page is waiting empty hungry to be full I fill my cup with coffee I sip the morning paper, see ...

Alice.(Brief Article)(Poem)
October 1, 2004... Alice 1 As a kid, I couldn't follow Alice, all silly words, stupid ideas and changing shapes; curiouser and curiouser Mad Hatters, magic potions, crazy queens, and white rabbits rushing late to...

A family fable.(Short Story)
October 1, 2004... It started innocuously enough. A new party that called itself the Future Family Party. They said they were not against anything. They were simply for the family. They were for marriage, for children,for suburbs,for the family car, for family...

The bonds of friendship: the demise of 'M. Barnard Eldershaw'.(Biography)
October 1, 2004... In March 1934 Nettie Palmer caught Marjorie Barnard off-balance when she wrote asking whether Barnard was 'powerful enough (1) to keep up with her collaborator, Flora Eldershaw. As Palmer was later to record in Fourteen Years, after...

When east meets west.(Short Story)
October 1, 2004... This was no journey in the traditional sense of the word. She didn't shoot through clear out pack her bags go bush or back of Bourke. She didn't escape make a getaway hightail it or skedaddle. This was not a pilgrimage or a quest. She went to...

A drop of absence.(Short Story)
October 1, 2004... Remembrance is a form of meeting. Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. Kahlil Gibran It was a quarter-to-seven in the morning. A light drizzle tapped insistently at the windows while the wind whispered and sighed, beckoning lighter...

Persephone is pissed! Grrrl zine reading, making, and distributing across the globe.
October 1, 2004... A growing number of young women and queer and transgender youth from around the world are finding an empowering outlet for artistic expression and social and political criticism in the medium of zines. In the United States, Great Britain and,...

On the way to Thursday.(Short Story)
October 1, 2004... Under the table there is carpet, and peanut husks and sprinklings of salt. There is Therese, and Annie as well. Therese with cuffed sleeves and a lace skirt that is bunched at her ankles, kissing Annie in a summer dress. This past hour they...

Hybridity in the representations of the female body in the new literatures of Kanaky/New Caledonia.(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2004... In what forms do female subjectivity and agency appear in the representations of women in Kanak oral literature? Can one speak of Beauvoirian transcendence (consciousness and choice) in the writing of Kanak women? Or does this depend on who is...

Sometimes I have a craving.
October 1, 2004... 'sometimes I have a craving to be engulfed. This morning... the weather is mild, overcast. I am suffering.' (1) i I woke early and drifted back into sleep. I dreamt that I woke again, beside you, not knowing how. Everything was...

In old Baghdad, Scheherazade ...(Brief Article)(Poem)
October 1, 2004... In old Baghdad, Scheherazade... In old Baghdad, Scheherazade melted one reluctant heart with story upon story, for a thousand shining nights and one. The sultan, in his grand unease, fidgeted with worry beads,...

Scheherazade in Cyberspace.(Brief Article)(Poem)
October 1, 2004... Scheherazade in Cyberspace Word-eaten, scored with palimpsest--symphonic suite meets fantasy; Rimsky-Korsakov woos fable's queen-- the screen will not relent. Voraciously it gobbles syllables, and asks ...

Footprints.(Poem)
October 1, 2004... For Molly Craig, who died January 16, 2004, aged 87. In 1931 she escaped with her younger sister and cousin from a mission station where they had been taken after forcible removal from their families, and trekked through 1,600 kilometres of...

Holiday Position, in Drapery Circa 1955.(Poem)
October 1, 2004... Holiday Position, in Drapery Circa 1955 In early morning flurry an old building releases aromas, banknote new. Soft thuds sound repeatedly from a bolt unwinding. No need for an alligator grip when a nip at the...

Single Cell.(Poem)
October 1, 2004... Single Cell My friend suggested I come to Thinkers Anonymous. 'You've got a thinking problem,' she said. 'I see you out, I see you in. You're always thinking about something,' she said. 'You think too much.' ...

Night: a Rough Hammock.(Brief Article)(Poem)
October 1, 2004... Night: A Rough Hammock In the smudge of morning her skin is never cool, but pink or orange red. White and black are completely out of range. Dolphins in the Sound, rise and bob, flick their tails silver...

The Caretaker.(Brief Article)(Poem)
October 1, 2004... You can trace horrors on his face thin red rivers hectic across his nose and cheeks his milky eyes are overhung by the arid incline of his brows his mouth is small mean puckered like a fish his shoulders are eroding into his chest he bares his...