English and Cultural Studies

A/Prof Alison Bartlett

Director, Centre for Women's Studies

phone: 6488 2066
email: bartlett@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

Research Interests:

  • Australian literature

  • Contemporary gender and cultural studies

  • Feminist theory and the body

  • Fictocriticism

  • Women's writing

  • Women's studies

Publications:

Breastwork: Rethinking Breastfeeding (Sydney, UNSW Press 2005)
Postgraduate Research Supervision: transforming R/Elations (New York, Peter Lang 2001) Edited with Gina Mercer.
Australian Literature and the Public Sphere (Toowoomba, ASAL 1999) Edited with Robert Dixon and Chris Lee
Jamming the Machinery: contemporary Australian women's writing (Camberra, ASAL 1998)
Chapters have appeared in Fresh Milk: the secret life of breasts (Giles 2003), Mothering: Power/Oppression (Porter, Short, & O'Reilly 2005), The Space Between: Australian Women Write Fictocriticism (Nettelbeck and Kerr 1998).
Refereed articles have appeared in Australian Feminist Studies, Feminist Theory, Women's Studies International Forum, Birth Issues, Hecate, Continuum, Southerly, Antipodes, Feminist Teacher, Gender & Education, Teaching in Higher Education, Sex Education.