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Cooks And Chefs: Gender In British Food Writing, Charlotte Julie Allen

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

This thesis explores the work of five of Britain’s most prominent food writers - Delia Smith, Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Nigel Slater - to illustrate how food writing in Britain emanates from a range of gendered positions.

The literature chapter illustrates the various meanings of the gendered literary performances to be studied in this thesis, and broadly defines what is meant by a masculine, a feminine and a queer perspective for the purposes of this study. Beginning with Judith Butler it then uses supporting evidence from other gender scholars to examine the impact and effect of gender …

Mingled With All Kinds Of Colours, Teresa Bell

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

The Book of Ambiguity is a term I use to define texts that exist outside formal genres and categories created by market forces. The Book of Ambiguity takes reader and writer outside familiar narrative structures, outside traditional positioning of gender, sanity, and sexuality, to an ambiguous meeting place of ecstasy. In this liminal space there is a merging of writer, reader and character, until the sense of a third person, or uninvolved narrator, is challenged. There is a mingling of writer as reader, reader as writer, writer as character, reader as character, reader as book, writer as book, and the …

Precursor, Indicator Or Mirage: What Relationship Exists Between Spirituality And Type Of Giftedness?, Russell Walton

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

Gifted students are often credited with higher levels of spirituality than non-gifted students, whether that be overall spirituality or aspects of spirituality. What has not previously been explored, however, is whether this aspect can be distinguished by type of giftedness. The current study aimed to contribute to filling that gap. The process utilised a theoretical framework that combined Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences theory with Françoys Gagné’s Differentiated Model of Giftedness and Talent. The resulting model, the Differentiated Model of Multiple Intelligence (DMMI; Walton, 2014), grounds spirituality in conceptions of both intelligence and giftedness.

The research sought to answer two research …

Gendered Rhetoric In North Korea’S International Relations (1946–2011), Amanda Kelly Anderson

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

In this thesis, I focus on North Korea’s communications with the outside world through the medium of the English-language, with a particular focus on the workings of gender in North Korea’s international relations. First, I focus on the North Korean government’s communications in the official English-language magazine, Women of Korea between 1964 and 1992. The magazine was modelled after the Korean-language equivalent Chosǒn Yǒsǒng (Korean Women). The visual images and text in the English version of the magazine portray a positive image of gender equality in North Korea to the world. However, close reading of Women of Korea reveals that …

Gendered Coverage And Newsroom Practices In Online Media: A Study Of Reporting Of The 2008 Olympic Games By The Abc, Bbc And Cbc, Dianne M. Jones

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

Legacy media have been shown to routinely marginalise women in the sports news and to devalue their athletic achievements in language and images that stereotype, sexualise and trivialise them. This study provided the first known investigation of digital media sports coverage and reporting practices at three national public service broadcasters – the ABC, BBC and CBC. It examined how and why their online representation of sportswomen offered little change to how sports news has traditionally been defined, reported and framed by the media. A content analysis was conducted during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Using online reports of women’s …

Women On Boards Of Directors In Australian National Sporting Organisations (Nsos): Is Gender A Factor?, Anne Emms

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

Sport plays a significant role in Australian culture, but gender inequity continues both in player participation and in the management and governance of sporting organisations. This is reflective of the continued male domination evidenced elsewhere in Australian organisations. Women remain under-represented on sports boards in Australia. The under-representation of women in governance positions, in Australia and overseas, persists despite almost thirty years of legislation directed towards anti-discrimination and equal opportunity. While there is a significant body of research around women on boards of corporate and for-profit entities, less research exists around examinations of women in sporting governance in Australia.

This …

Human Trials To Evaluate Thermal Performance Specifications For Private Bushfire Shelters, Benjamin J. Haberley

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

Australia is one of the most bushfire prone regions in the world. Regular bushfires pose a threat to the Australian population and in particular those located on the Eastern seaboard, and in the 2007 Victorian bushfires 173 lives were documented to be lost (Royal Victorian Bushfire Commission, 2009). As a result of these loses, it was deemed that a building standard for bushfire shelters was necessary. This project sought to test the thermal standard for bushfire shelters, which was determined by the Australian Building Codes Board (2010) to be 39° Modified Discomfort Index. A series of three experiments were undertaken …

Now And Then: Traces Of The Present In Medievalist Fantasy Fiction, Narelle Campbell

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

This thesis examines two medievalist fantasy series by authors from former British settler cultures – The Old Kingdom Chronicles (1995- 2003) by Australian writer Garth Nix, and The Fionavar Tapestry (1985-1986) by Canadian author Guy Gavriel Kay. I argue that although these texts are firmly situated in the realm of the imaginary, they are far from being culturally irrelevant. They are inescapably contemporary cultural products, strongly informed by the moments and places of their production, and revelatory of present aspirations and anxieties. I discuss the British and, more broadly, Western inflections at the centre of medievalist genre fantasy and examine …