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Associate Professor Bronwyn Winter

PhD, LèsL, MèsL (ParisIII), RSADip TEFLA (Lond)
Associate Professor
Associate Dean, Undergraduate Matters, Faculty of Arts
Room 747, Brennan MacCallum Building A18

+61 2 9351 4653

Research areas

  • Colonisation, decolonisation and the postcolonial French-speaking world (esp. North Africa and the Caribbean)
  • Twentieth century political theories and social movements, esp. antiracist, feminist, gay/lesbian and anti-globalisation movements, in France, Australia, North Africa, the Philippines and Israel/Palestine
  • Feminist theory esp. transnational feminism
  • Culture, religion and politics esp. although not solely in relation to the Muslim world and diaspora
  • Women and political participation
  • The State, nationalism and internationalism, esp. in relation to human rights, women, war, globalisation, and ethnicity/cross-cultural issues in a “post-9/11” world
  • Comparative literature in particular postcolonial, feminist and lesbian literature, and the history, esthetics and critiques of orientalism in literature and in dance
  • Gay and lesbian studies
  • The ideals and ideology of the French republic

Major Research Projects

  • Book 9/11 Emergency: Has September 11, 2001 changed the world for women?
  • The politics of homosexuality, feminism and ethnicity in France, Turkey, Australia, Israel/Palestine and the Philippines
  • Women writing transgression and exile

Other Research Projects

  • “Foulard or cocarde? Gendered imagery of racialised women in postcolonial France” (Book chapter)
  • “Guns, money and justice : the 2005 Subic rape case”
  • “Lily pads and leisure meccas : the gendered political economy of post-base and post-9/11 Philippines”
  • “The epistemology of a prefix : is ‘trans-’ the new ‘inter-’ ?”
  • “Interdisciplines : the locations and politics of knowledge production”
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Selected publications

Books

  • 2008a. Hijab and the Republic: Uncovering the French Headscarf Debate. Sycracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.

Edited Books

  • 2002a (contributing ed., with Susan Hawthorne). September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives. Melbourne: Spinifex.

Chapters in Books

  • 2011. “Politicising the personal: questioning the public/private divide.” In A Cultural History of Women in the Modern Age, ed. Liz Conor, Vol. 6 of A Cultural History of Women, ed. L. Kalof. Oxford: Berg Publishers. (Forthcoming)
  • 2009a. “One hijab does not fit all: recontexualising the case for secularism.” In Beyond the hijab debates: new conversations on gender, race and religion, ed. Christina Ho and Tanja Dreher, 195-207. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • 2006a. “The Social Foundations of the Sacred: Feminists and the Politics of Religion.” In Handbook of Gender and Women’s Studies, ed. K. Davis, M. Evans and J. Lorber, 92-108. London: Sage Publications.
  • 2002b. “Pauline and Other Perils: Women in Australian Right-Wing Politics”. In P. Bacchetta and M. Power (eds). Right-Wing Women: from Conservatives to Extremists Around the World. New York: Routledge, 197-210.
  • 2000a. “Women and Human Rights in Europe: Views from France.” In Rewriting Rights in Europe, ed. Linda Hancock and Carolyn O’Brien. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 25-52
  • 1998a. “Adherence or Appropriation? Images of Maghrebian Women and the French Ideal of Nationhood.” In Shifting Bonds, Shifting Bounds: Women, Mobility and Citizenship in Europe, ed. V. Ferreira, T. Tavares and S. Portugal. Oeiras, Portugal: Celta Editore, 149-163.

Articles in refereed journals

  • 2010a. “Défauts et indignités : burqa et politique en France.” Actes de l’histoire de l’immigration, Nº spécial: “Politique et administration du genre migrant.” (Forthcoming)
  • 2009b. “Women and the ‘Turkish paradox’: what the headscarf is covering up.” Modern Greek Studies Australia. (Forthcoming)
  • 2007a. “Pre-emptive fridge magnets and other weapons of masculinist destruction: the rhetoric and reality of ‘Safeguarding Australia’.” Signs: A Journal of Women, Culture and Society 33(1): 25-52.
  • 2006b. “Religion, culture and women’s human rights: Some general political and theoretical considerations.” Women’s Studies International Forum 29(4): Special issue on Islam, gender and human rights in Asia and the Pacific: 381-93.
  • 2006c. “Secularism Aboard the Titanic: Feminists and the Debate over the Hijab in France.” Feminist Studies 32(2): 279-98.
  • 2002c. with Sheila Jeffreys and Denise Thompson. “The UN Approach to Harmful Traditional Practices: Some Conceptual Problems.” International Feminist Journal of Politics 4: 72-94.
  • 2002d. “Women's rights, globalisation and the nation-state: are human rights and democracy enough?” Australian Feminist Law Journal 17, December 2002: 1-16.
  • 2001a. “Fundamental Misunderstandings: Issues in Feminist Approaches to Islamism”, and “Naming the Oppressor, Not Punishing the Oppressed: Atheism and Feminist Legitimacy.” Journal of Women’s History 13(1): 9-41 and 53-57 respectively (featured piece in “Theoretical Issues” section of journal, and my rejoinder to the three responses by Badran, Moghadam and Hassan).
  • 2000b. “Who Counts (or Doesn’t Count) What as Feminist Theory? An exercise in dictionary use”. Feminist Theory 1(1): 105-114.
  • 1999a. “L’essentialisation de l’Altérité et l’invisibilisation de l’oppression: l’histoire bizarre mais vraie de la déformation d’un concept”. Nouvelles Questions Féministes 20(4): 75-102.
  • 1997a. “(Mis)representations: What French Feminism Isn’t.” Women’s Studies International Forum. 20(2): 211-224 (10,000 words).
  • 1994a. “Women, the Law and Cultural Relativism in France: the Case of Excision”. Signs: A Journal of Women, Culture and Society. 19(4), 939-974 (10,000 words).

Refereed conference proceedings

  • 2009c. “Marianne goes multicultural: Ni putes ni soumises and the republicanisation of ethnic minority women in France.” French history and civilization: Papers from the George Rudé Seminar Vol. 2. www.h-france.net/rude/rudeTOC2009.html
  • 1999b. “Liberté, égalité, parité: women as political actors in France, two hundred years down the track.” In The Sphinx in the Tuileries and other essays in Modern French History: papers presented at the Eleventh George Rudé Seminar, ed. R. Aldrich & M. Lyons. University of Sydney: Department of Economic History, 386-399.
  • 1998b. “Pauline Hanson and the ‘dilemmas’ of right-wing women for feminism.” Proceedings of the 7th Australian Women’s Studies Association 1998 Conference (selected refereed papers). Adelaide: University of South Australia, 192-204.
  • 1996a. “Learning the Hard Way: the debate on women, cultural difference and secular schooling in France”. In Europe: Retrospects and Prospects: Proceedings of the Australasian Association of European Historians Tenth Biennal Conference. Manly: South End Press, 203-213.

Encyclopædia entries

  • 2010b. “The Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan” and “Awa Thiam” (pioneering Francophone African feminist scholar). In History of Feminist Thought, ed. Tiffany K. Wayne. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. (Forthcoming)
  • 1996b. “Colette Guillaumin”. In Feminist Writers, ed. Pamela Kester-Shelton. Detroit: St James’ Press.

Other publications

Non-fiction
Fiction
  • 2009e. "Freeway", "Blood Poisoning", "The Attic", "Moments in a Saga" and "Tango". Short stories and poetry in 2Flaunt. www.lesbian-ebooks.com.au.
  • 2007b. “When Did You Know” and other poems. Perverse Verse 2007. www.gay-ebooks.com.au
  • 2006d. “Imprint” and other poems. Perverse Verse 2005-6. www.gay-ebooks.com.au
  • 2002g. “Kabul 2002.” In An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind: Poets on 9/11, ed. Allen Cohen and Cliver Matson. Oakland, CA: Regent Press, 156-62.
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Areas of teaching and research supervision

  • Colonisation/decolonisation/postcolonialism
  • Francophone Studies: The Maghreb, West Africa, The Caribbean
  • The politics and theory of race and gender in France
  • Post world-war-II social movements
  • Le grand siècle (17th century)
  • The ideology of the French Revolution and of the First and Third Republics
  • Comparative literature esp. history and theories of the discipline; orientalism in literature and dance; lesbian and gay literature; literature, culture and politics; and representations of Paris in literature
  • International and Global Studies, esp. international institutions, transnational social movements and the politics of transculturation
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Other professional contributions

Research Organisations

  • Co-convenor, “Transcultural Mappings: Emerging Issues in Comparative, Transnational and Area Studies”, University of Sydney, April 2010
  • Member of organising committee, 17th George Rudé seminar on French history and civilization, University of Sydney, July 2010
  • Co-convenor, “History, Modernity and the Muslim World between Europe and Asia”, Symposium, University of Sydney, September 2008
  • Member of organising committee, 2008 conference of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, University of Sydney, December 2008
  • Co-convenor, “Homosexual Histories”, University of Sydney 2004
  • Membre du comité scientifique international. 3ème colloque international de la recherche féministe francophone: “Ruptures, Résistances et Utopies” Toulouse, 17-22 septembre 2002
  • Member of organising committee of "Workers Out!", the Second International Conference on Trade Unionism and Homosexuality: University of Sydney Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2002

Invited lectures and seminars

  • Keynote speaker, Brisbane International Feminist Conference, September 2008
  • “Simone de Beauvoir”. Public lecture, University of Sydney Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences “Key Thinkers” lecture series, September 2005
  • Howard Falls memorial lecture in French Studies, University of Maryland, 2005
  • Panel member, “Where were you in 1984” keynote panel, Brisbane Women’s Legal Service Conference to mark the 20th anniversary of the Sex Discrimination Act, Brisbane, October 2004
  • Plenary speaker on violence against women, Pacific regional NGO preparatory conference for the UN ten-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action, co-organised by HREOC, the University of NSW and the Australian National Council for Refugee Women, UNSW, June 2004
  • Keynote Speaker, international conference “Poverty, Violence and Women's Rights: Setting a Global Agenda”, James Cook University,Townsville 3-7 July 2002
  • Plenary speaker, international conference “Cinquantenaire du Deuxième sexe de Simone de Beauvoir”, Paris, 1999
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