Future Imaginings

FUTURE IMAGININGS

Sexualities and Genders in the New Millennium

Edited by Delys Bird, Wendy Were and Terri-ann White

At the beginning of the new millennium, gender-related issues seem less public and more personal than in the past. Yet there are still a myriad of debates to be had and issues to be resolved. Future Imaginings brings together essays by leading Australian scholars from a range of disciplines, who investigate, interrogate and develop new ways of thinking about gender. The result is a collection that not only challenges established perceptions of gender relations and identities, but explores diverse cultural interpretations and symbolisations of gender - how these have changed, and continue to change into the future.

ISBN 1-920694-07-2
$32.95



Contents:

Introduction: Into the Future

'Globalisation and the Future of Gender' by R.W. Connell

'Western Feminisms: Through the Eyes of the "Other"' by Chilla Bulbeck

'"Past and Future Tense": The Crisis in Masculinity' by David Buchbinder

'Western Concepts of Gender and Prostitution as an Obstacle to Ending the International Traffic in Women' by Shelia Jeffreys

'Fetishism and the Future of Gender' by Amanda Fernbach

'Hard Cases Make Bad History: Doctors and Chidbirth Between the Wars' by Janet McCalman

'Socio-Political Perspective of Sexual Violence and its Impact on Aboriginal Women's Health' by Dawn Bessarah

'The Godly Family of the Seventeenth Century and John Howard's Australia' by Dolly MacKinnon

'From Shared Expectations to Profound Ambivalence: Australia's Gender Culture in the 1950s and the 1990s' by Belinda Probert

'Women, 'Choice', Work and Family: Some Australian Evidence' by Barbara Pocock