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Dr Alison Bartlett
Alison Bartlett is interested in the way textual and visual narratives work to re/constitute public discourses and histories of gendered bodies, or corporeality. Public memory is thus understood to be constantly under revision alongside subjectivities and their representations.
Her current project employs postmodern feminist theory to locate the many contradictory meanings of breastfeeding in the public imagination through representations by the media, television, poetry, the visual arts, medical texts, public health discourses, and historical narratives of race, gender, class and sexuality.
Previous research has traced the public memory of women through representations in contemporary literature, and of gendered educational narratives in pedagogical texts.
She has a doctorate in literature from James Cook University (1996), has authored a monograph, edited 2 collections of essays as well as Coppertales: a journal of rural arts since 2001 and guest edited Australian Feminist Studies special issue in 2004. She is widely published in literary, gender, cultural and women's studies journals, and currently works at the University of Southern Queensland.
