Ditch the Witch: Julia Gillard and gender in Australian public discourse

This thesis explores the interplay of gender, media, politics and women’s political representation in Australia. I examine how the Australian media has tended to reinforce rather than challenge dominant cultural aspects of Australian politics. Specifically, I analyse the ways in which Australian media has reflected women’s marginalisation in parliament. As Australia’s first female head of state, Julia Gillard’s term as Prime Minister provides a unique opportunity to analyse explicit and implicit ways in which gender has been used by media commentators in their assessment of her achievements. Analysis of the media’s treatment of Julia Gillard is used throughout the thesis, as her time in office exposed underlying conflicts surrounding gender and sexism in Australian media and public discourse. Media response to Gillard’s so-called Misogyny Speech is used as a particular case study. The thesis draws on a range of scholarship and commentary, including the works of Erving Goffman, Walter Lippmann, Pierre Bourdieu, Robin Lakoff, Anne Summers, Julia Baird, Pippa Norris and Marian Sawer, to construct a framework through which to examine the period of Gillard’s prime ministership. The last two writers (Norris and Sawer), inter alia, discuss the significance of women’s representation in parliament. In particular, the analysis highlights the significance of Anne Summers’ contribution to Australian feminism and draws on her Newcastle Speech (August 2012). I argue that Summers’ ideas and writing have been influential in shaping public discourse on Julia Gillard. I place the widely varied media responses to Gillard’s Misogyny Speech into a historical and comparative context to demonstrate the conflict within Australian society around issues of gender, feminism and female participation in public life

Ditch the Witch: Julia Gillard and gender in Australian public discourse

This thesis explores the interplay of gender, media, politics and women’s political representation in Australia. I examine how the Australian media has tended to reinforce rather than challenge dominant cultural aspects of Australian politics. Specifically, I analyse the ways in which Australian media has reflected women’s marginalisation in parliament. As Australia’s first female head of state, Julia Gillard’s term as Prime Minister provides a unique opportunity to analyse explicit and implicit ways in which gender has been used by media commentators in their assessment of her achievements. Analysis of the media’s treatment of Julia Gillard is used throughout the thesis, as her time in office exposed underlying conflicts surrounding gender and sexism in Australian media and public discourse. Media response to Gillard’s so-called Misogyny Speech is used as a particular case study. The thesis draws on a range of scholarship and commentary, including the works of Erving Goffman, Walter Lippmann, Pierre Bourdieu, Robin Lakoff, Anne Summers, Julia Baird, Pippa Norris and Marian Sawer, to construct a framework through which to examine the period of Gillard’s prime ministership. The last two writers (Norris and Sawer), inter alia, discuss the significance of women’s representation in parliament. In particular, the analysis highlights the significance of Anne Summers’ contribution to Australian feminism and draws on her Newcastle Speech (August 2012). I argue that Summers’ ideas and writing have been influential in shaping public discourse on Julia Gillard. I place the widely varied media responses to Gillard’s Misogyny Speech into a historical and comparative context to demonstrate the conflict within Australian society around issues of gender, feminism and female participation in public life

A Remedy in Sight: International Clinical Research Regulation in the Wake of Guatemala and Nigeria

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Not your abuela’s telenovela : Mujeres Asesinas as a hybrid Latin American fiction format

This dissertation traces the trajectory of Mujeres Asesinas (“Killer Women”) as a fiction series developed in Argentina for a domestic audience (2005-2008), to the Mexican television format adaptation explicitly produced for a transnational Spanish-language audience (2008-2011). A critical transculturalism theoretical framework (Kraidy, 2005), centered on hybridity, provides a multi-layered approach to the inquiry by counterposing two distinct locales with the institutions, practices, processes and relationships that link them, as well as the hybrid text that serves as the site of negotiation. As a reality-based fiction series developed and adapted by independent producers with links to powerful media players in their own countries, Mujeres Asesinas provides a vehicle through which to understand some of the tensions and contradictions surrounding the regional television format business from a local-to-local perspective with attention to local, national and transnational forces and constraints. The format’s production and localization reveals a complex web of contextual and relational links that complicate current understandings of media globalization, particularly around the rise of independent media production and the transition to a multi-channel media environment. My findings underscore the role of nation states as primary sites of media, regulation and cultural policy-making. As a case study, this work contributes to the growing bodies of research on counter flows of global television formats and intraregional television flows in Latin America.Radio-Television-Fil

Amexica: de Mexico, por la frontera y al norte. Exploring the axis of 21st century Mexican and U.S. identities through printed and visual millenial rhetorical mediums

This dissertation delves into re-casted, re-negotiated, and emergent U.S. and Latino perspectives that are resulting from trans-border cultural and national fusion and undocumented Mexican immigration to the U.S. between the years 2000-2015. Five cultural products-- newspaper headlines, literature, music, political cartoons, and memes-- as produced by Mexican individuals on one side of the U.S.-Mexican Border and undocumented individuals on the other, who are part of the millennial generation, are considered against fossilized notions of gender, race, class, and national identity to determine if and how millennial Mexicans and millennial undocumented individuals are leveraging specific cultural tokens to be tools of defiance and to promulgate a re-writing of self

Reading men's lifestyle magazines in contemporary China

Men's lifestyle magazines came to China at the turn of the 21st century, as a result of commercialization and the globalization of the media. They have prospered in the last decade along with the marked emergence of a new "middle class" in China and their pursuit and imagination of a consumerist lifestyle. Reflecting dynamic negotiation and hybridization between global and local discourses, the men's lifestyle magazine, as a form of popular culture, points to new possibilities of gender and sexuality in post-socialist China. In particular, targeting the newly-emerged social elite, these magazines construct and promote a new mode of masculinity that is characterized by hedonism, consumerism, and cosmopolitanism. The thesis aims at developing a framework for understanding men's lifestyle magazines in China by focusing on this new mode of manhood, which, as an aspirational model, represents a new development of Chinese masculinities that are significantly different from both the Confucian and Maoist discourses. At the centre of the discourse of consumerist masculinity is the pursuit of a lifestyle defined by pinwei or "good taste", which is rendered modern and Westernized by readers and is closely associated with a middle-class identity and fantasy. As an interdisciplinary study of men's magazines in China, the thesis synthesizes research methods of both media studies and gender studies. From the perspective of media studies, it investigates the ownership patterns of the magazines, i.e., local copyright ownership versus shared copyright ownership with established overseas magazines. Comparison has been made between the two types of magazines in terms of representations of lifestyle, masculinity and consumerism. Based on interviews and surveys with magazine editors and readers, the study empirically examines the production, reception and interpretation of these magazines and the male images constructed and promoted by them. By content analysis and critical readings of the verbal and visual texts, the study also compares Chinese editions of international titles such as FHM and Esquire with their "mother editions" in the West and probes into the localization of Western hegemonic masculinity in China. In addition, the distinctive "Chinese characteristics" of the magazines, namely elitism and nationalism, have been embedded in the social and ideological context of post-socialist China. In light of gender studies theory, the study interprets different types of spectatorship of the body in the magazines and examines the cultural habitus of the new "middle class" as desiring subjects

Central Florida Future, Vol. 37 No. 20, October 21, 2004

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The Connected Caribbean

The modern-day Caribbean is a stunningly diverse but also intricately interconnected geo-cultural region, resulting partly from the islands’ shared colonial histories and an increasingly globalizing economy. Perhaps more importantly, before the encounter between the New and Old World took place, the indigenous societies and cultures of the pre-colonial Caribbean were already united in diversity. This work seeks to study the patterns of this pre-colonial homogeneity and diversity and uncover some of their underlying processes and dynamics. In contrast to earlier studies of its kind, this study adopts an archaeological network approach, in part derived from the network sciences. In archaeology, network approaches can be used to explore the complex relations between objects, sites or other archaeological features, and as such represents a powerful new tool for studying material culture systems. Archaeological research in general aims to uncover the social relations and human interactions underlying these material culture systems. Therefore, the interdependencies between social networks and material culture systems are another major focus of this study. This approach and theoretical framework is tested in four case studies dealing with lithic distribution networks, site assemblages as ego-networks, indigenous political networks, and the analysis of artefact styles in 2-mode networks. These were selected for their pertinence to key research themes in Caribbean archaeology, in particular the current debates about the nature of ties and interactions between culturally different communities in the region, and the structure and dynamics of pre-colonial socio-political organisation. The outcomes of these case studies show that archaeological network approaches can provide surprising new insights into longstanding questions about the patterns of pre-colonial connectivity in the region

Vinculación afectiva en niños con Síndrome de Down

El objetivo de esta tesis es indagar en el conocimiento del proceso de formación de los vínculos de apego tempranos de la población infantil con Síndrome de Down. Para ello se evalúan algunas de las variables que, a lo largo de estas últimas décadas de investigación, se han destacado como posibles determinantes de la seguridad del apego infantil. En concreto, los rasgos de personalidad de los padres y la calidad del apego en el niño; el estrés en el ejercicio de la paternidad/maternidad y las variables del contexto familiar, como predictivos de la seguridad del apego de los niños, en los 3 primeros años de vida. Se valora cada variable en ambos progenitores a fin de estudiar la diferencia entre éstos, en caso de que sea así, y cómo puede influir cada uno de ellos en el establecimiento de los apegos