Online Research Seminar: Men. Milk. Media
Event description
Join us for an online research seminar featuring cutting edge and in-process research from AWGSA members.
Wednesday 24 April
4:30pm AEST
At this seminar, Josephine Browne will explore the neglected responses of cisgendered and heterosexual men to feminist waves, focusing on the expected attributes of ‘New Men’. Amanda Fiedler will draw on bricoleur-theorising and a methodological in-the-making approach to women’s creative activities to respond to androcentrism in the media. Ali Hickling employs a Marxist Feminist lens to critically examine the social, economic, political, and symbolic dimensions surrounding human milk and its production.
Speakers:
Dr Josephine Browne (she/her) is a feminist researcher in cultural sociology, writing on unceded Bundjalung Country, at Southern Cross University, with a focus on masculinities and critical animal studies. Her work appears in publications such as Hecate, Victorians, Overland and TEXT, and in the anthologies ACE IV (Recent Work Press, 2023) and Earthwords and Artlings 2 (AELA, 2022), with forthcoming research on coercive control to be published in Women: A Cultural Review. She also writes fiction, and was most recently short-listed for the National Peter Carey Short Story Award 2023. Her co-edited collection, Human-Animal Relationships in Times of Pandemic and Climate Crisis, is forthcoming with Routledge. She is a member of the AWGSA Executive, the inaugural Disability Representative.
Amanda Fiedler is a PhD candidate, sessional academic and research assistant in the School of Business and Creative Industries. Her research explores the sociohistorical intersections of fact and fiction in screen media ecologies, with a focus on gender, political economy and creative activism. Amanda is also the Treasurer of The Australian Women's & Gender Studies Association (AWGSA).
Ali Hickling is an Associate Lecturer in Humanities at CQUniversity and a PhD Candidate at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Ali's research interests include narrative-based research methods, feminist theory, and the intersection of creative writing, literature, and communication. Her PhD research explores how storied experiences illuminate the complexities of social expectations and ideologies around infant feeding practices and the value of human milk.
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