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Associate Professor Bronwyn Winter

PhD, LèsL, MèsL (ParisIII), RSADip TEFLA (Lond)
Associate Professor
Room 747, Brennan MacCallum Building A18

+61 2 9351 5643

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
  • Member of International Editorial Board, The Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, ed. N. Naples et al (5 volumes plus online version), to be published by Wiley-Blackwell.
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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

  • 2013. ‘Secularism and religious freedom: challenging the “postsecular”.’ In Muslim Secular Democracy: Voices from Within, ed. Lily Rahim. New York: Palgrave McMillan. Contract date: 23 February 2012; publication date: early 2013.
  • 2012a. ‘Politicising the personal: questioning the public/private divide.’ In A Cultural History of Women in the Modern Age, ed. Liz Conor, Vol. 6 of [[i||A Cultural History of Women, ed. L. Kalof. Oxford: Berg Publishers. In press: publication March 2012.
  • 2012b. ‘Lily pads and leisure meccas: The gendered political economy of post-base and post-911 Philippines.’ In Gender, power and military occupations in the Asia-Pacific and Middle East since 1945, ed. C. de Matos and R. Ward. London: Routledge. In press: publication March 2012.
  • 2012c. ‘International vs Transnational? The politics of prefixes in feminist international relations,’ in T. St Germain & S. Dewey (eds.) Woman, Body, Nation: International Efforts to Address Sexual Violence in Conflict and Post-Conflict Zones. West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press. In press: publication early 2012.
  • 2012d. ‘Foulard or cocarde? Gendered imagery of racialised women in postcolonial France.’ In Gendered Signs and Sexual Symbols in the History of French Political Culture, ed. A. Moore. London: Cambria Press. In press.
  • 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.

Articles in refereed journals

  • 2011a. ‘Guns, money and justice: the 2005 Subic rape case.’ International Feminist Journal of Politics 13(3): 371-389.
  • 2011b. ‘Défauts et indignités : burqa et politique en France.’ Actes de l’histoire de l’immigration, Vol. 10: ‘Politique et administration du genre migrant’: 169-186. Revue associée à la Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration, sous la dir. de Philippe Rygiel. In press (publication delayed).
  • 2010. ‘Women and the “Turkish paradox”: what the headscarf is covering up.’ Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand) double issue 2009/10: 216-39.
  • 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.’ Journal of Women’s History 13(1): 9-41 (featured piece in ‘Theoretical Issues’ section of journal).
  • 2000b. ‘Who Counts (or Doesn’t Count) What as Feminist Theory? An exercise in dictionary use.’ Feminist Theory 1(1): 105-114.
  • 1997a. ‘(Mis)representations: What French Feminism Isn’t.’ Women’s Studies International Forum. 20(2): 211-224.
  • 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.
    Republished in two anthologies: Rethinking the Political: Gender, Resistance, and the State, ed. Barbara Laslett et al. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1995), 315 350; and in translation as ‘Frauen, Recht und Kulturrelativismus in Frankreich: Das Problem der Exzision’, in Lise Benz (ed.), Wechselnde Blicke: Internationale feministische Theorie. Opladen: Lesker & Budrich (1996), 152-187.

Refereed conference proceedings

  • 2009b. “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

Encyclopædia entries

  • 2011d.‘The Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan’ and ‘Awa Thiam’ (pioneering Francophone African feminist scholar). In Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World: A Global Sourcebook and History ed. Tiffany K. Wayne. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. Publication date October 2011.
  • 2012d. ‘Transnational Communities’. In Encyclopædia of Global Studies, ed. Mark Juergensmeyer & Helmut K. Anheier. London: Sage (online).
  • 2012e. ‘Christine Lagarde’, ‘Association des Femmes Tunisiennes pour la Recherche et le Développement’, ‘Julia Gillard’, ‘Anna Bligh’ & ‘Religion as an Impediment to Education for Girls’ in Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, ed. Mary Zeiss Stange, Carol K. Oyster & Jane E. Sloan. London: Sage (online).
  • 2011e. ‘Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism’, in The Literary Encyclopedia, founding editors Robert Clark, Emory Elliott & Janet Todd. Forthcoming.

Fiction

  • 2009d. ‘Freeway’, ‘The Attic’ and other poems and stories 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.
  • 2002f. ‘Kabul 2002.’ In An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind: Poets on 9/11, ed. Allen Cohen & Cliver Matson. Oakland, CA: Regent Press,
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Teaching areas (and additional research supervision areas)

  • 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 Organisation

  • 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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