home cooked theory

Amusement

This was sent to me by dr nic, showing a distinct amount of empathy for the amount of research I’ve had to do for my blogging and gender chapter…

Gender, Feminism and Technology

Women’s Studies in Communication announces a special issue on “Exploring Gender, Feminism and Technology from a Communication Perspective” to appear in September 2006. Across disciplines, studies of technology have been a rich source for understanding women’s experience and for advancing feminist theory. The goal of this special issue is to emphasize the contribution of communication [...]

Mag Launch tomorrow night

Vulture launch All the cool kids are going…

What’s in a name?

I think the difficulties expressed in my previous, now deleted post can be understood on another level, one that I have discussed before with a fellow post-doc fellow. That is, the ambiguous status of the unpublished academic. If like me you are an early career researcher without a first book and maybe just a handful [...]

Help for a small town girl

I’m about to book my trip to the US in September and I’m wondering if anyone could give me some tips about where to stay in NYC. I’m on a tightish budget but I’m not quite at backpacker level – plus I’ll be staying for a fortnight writing the book so it will have to [...]

Different views

Sanctuary and Lagoon This is my Dad’s place on Bruny Island where I’ve been catching up with family and taking a big break from the world. Now I’m in Snug, just south of Hobart, staying with my brother. I think today we’re going to do the famous tree walk – just in case we needed [...]

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