Future Imaginings

Future Imaginings: Sexualities and Genders in the New Millennium.

Edited by Delys Bird, Wendy Were and Terri-Ann White, UWA Press 2003.

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.

CONTENTS:

• Introduction: Into the Future
• R.W. Connell: Globalisation and the Future of Gender
• Chilla Bulbeck: Western Feminisms: Through the Eyes of the 'Other'
• David Buchbinder: 'Past and Future Tense': The Crisis in Masculinity
• Shelia Jeffreys: Western Concepts of Gender and Prostitution as an Obstacle to Ending the International Traffic in Women
• Amanda Fernbach: Fetishism and the Future of Gender
• Janet McCalman: Hard Cases Make Bad History: Doctors and Chidbirth Between the Wars
• Dawn Bessarah: A Socio-Political Perspective of Sexual Violence and its Impact on Aboriginal Women's Health
• Dolly MacKinnon: The Godly Family of the Seventeenth Century and John Howard's Australia
• Belinda Probert: From Shared Expectations to Profound Ambivalence: Australia's Gender Culture in the 1950s and the 1990s
• Barbara Pocock: Women, 'Choice', Work and Family: Some Australian Evidence