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Assistant Director - Women's Safety Policy DSS Australian Government - 2013 - current
Senior Policy Officer - Commonwealth Office for the Status of Women 2012 - 2013
OIYP Research Coordinator Oxfam Australia 2011-2012
Lecturer and Tutor University of Sydney 2006 - 2011
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This paper aims to provide a concise yet robust review of one of Oxfam Australia's key initiative... more This paper aims to provide a concise yet robust review of one of Oxfam Australia's key initiatives over the last decade: the Oxfam International Youth Partnerships Program (OIYP). OIYP provides an opportunity for joint work between Oxfam in relation to the central proposition of the Oxfam International Strategic Plan 2007-2012. Representing a key strategy for achieving Oxfam International's agenda of building a global movement of active citizens at the local, national and international level. Drawing on the recent 10 Year Impact Assessment of OIYP, conducted by Social Compass and several of OIYP's major project reports 1 , this paper synthesizes their key findings. In particular, the paper articulates how OIYP's model of change and program experience correlates with existing literature on active citizenship and accountability. It concludes with a brief discussion of lessons learned from 10 years of program experience as well as future recommendations for the OIYP Program.
The TV series Sex and the City (1998City ( -2004, adapted from Candice Bushnell's 'chick lit' nov... more The TV series Sex and the City (1998City ( -2004, adapted from Candice Bushnell's 'chick lit' novel of the same title, is a conspicuous example of popular postfeminism, providing a site for the discussion of 'traditional' and 'contemporary' relationship forms and the model of female subjectivity they present. Utilising the conventions of romantic fairy tales Sex and the City focuses on the central protagonist Carrie Bradshaw and her quest to experience 'true love'. 1 Yet it departs from the traditional fairy tale forms in its incorporation of postfeminist twists on the fairytale's transformations of the self-the realisation of the ideal 'true self', what I term the 'postfeminist fairy tale'. The rise of 'postfeminist' discourses in western popular culture signaled a shift in mainstream debates surrounding women's subjectivities that were presumed to be particularly pressing for young women. It has been suggested that the development of postfeminist theory reflected the institutionalisation of feminism and provided a space for more reflexive feminist discourse (Brooks 1997; McRobbie 2004). Representations of contemporary women's subjectivities and their expression in regard to personal relationships in the mainstream media and popular culture, demonstrate a similar presumption of, and reflection on, feminism-providing a useful window into the ongoing negotiation of women's interests and female subjectivity. As Amanda Lotz (2001, pp. 106) explains: 'Postfeminism can be an extremely valuable descriptor for recognizing and analyzing recent shifts in female representations and ideas about feminism'. Popular
This paper aims to provide a concise yet robust review of one of Oxfam Australia's key initiative... more This paper aims to provide a concise yet robust review of one of Oxfam Australia's key initiatives over the last decade: the Oxfam International Youth Partnerships Program (OIYP). OIYP provides an opportunity for joint work between Oxfam in relation to the central proposition of the Oxfam International Strategic Plan 2007-2012. Representing a key strategy for achieving Oxfam International's agenda of building a global movement of active citizens at the local, national and international level. Drawing on the recent 10 Year Impact Assessment of OIYP, conducted by Social Compass and several of OIYP's major project reports 1 , this paper synthesizes their key findings. In particular, the paper articulates how OIYP's model of change and program experience correlates with existing literature on active citizenship and accountability. It concludes with a brief discussion of lessons learned from 10 years of program experience as well as future recommendations for the OIYP Program.
The TV series Sex and the City (1998City ( -2004, adapted from Candice Bushnell's 'chick lit' nov... more The TV series Sex and the City (1998City ( -2004, adapted from Candice Bushnell's 'chick lit' novel of the same title, is a conspicuous example of popular postfeminism, providing a site for the discussion of 'traditional' and 'contemporary' relationship forms and the model of female subjectivity they present. Utilising the conventions of romantic fairy tales Sex and the City focuses on the central protagonist Carrie Bradshaw and her quest to experience 'true love'. 1 Yet it departs from the traditional fairy tale forms in its incorporation of postfeminist twists on the fairytale's transformations of the self-the realisation of the ideal 'true self', what I term the 'postfeminist fairy tale'. The rise of 'postfeminist' discourses in western popular culture signaled a shift in mainstream debates surrounding women's subjectivities that were presumed to be particularly pressing for young women. It has been suggested that the development of postfeminist theory reflected the institutionalisation of feminism and provided a space for more reflexive feminist discourse (Brooks 1997; McRobbie 2004). Representations of contemporary women's subjectivities and their expression in regard to personal relationships in the mainstream media and popular culture, demonstrate a similar presumption of, and reflection on, feminism-providing a useful window into the ongoing negotiation of women's interests and female subjectivity. As Amanda Lotz (2001, pp. 106) explains: 'Postfeminism can be an extremely valuable descriptor for recognizing and analyzing recent shifts in female representations and ideas about feminism'. Popular