• The sociology of the chick lit of Anita Heiss 

  Morgan, Fiannuala (2018)

  Wiradjuri woman, Anita Heiss, is arguably one of the first Australian authors of popular fiction. Since 2007, she has published across a diversity of genres including chick lit, contemporary women’s fiction, romance, memoir ...

• Australia and the Pacific: the ambivalent place of Pacific peoples within contemporary Australia 

  Mackay, Scott William (2018)

  My thesis examines the places (real and symbolic) accorded to Pacific peoples within the historical production of an Australian nation and in the imaginary of Australian nationalism. It demonstrates how these places reflect ...

• Soma-masculinities: centring the body within studies of masculinities 

  Tas, Shane (2018)

  Whilst feminist and queer scholarship have paid generous attention to bodies and embodiment in their attempts to better understand gender and sexuality, studies of masculinities have tended to lag behind. In this thesis, ...

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