Associate Professor Barbara Baird

Associate Professor of Women's Studies

Postal Address:
Women's Studies Department
Flinders University
GPO Box 2100
Adelaide SA 5001

Room: 218 SSS

Telephone: (08) 8201 2331

Fax: (08) 8201 3350

Email: Barbara.Baird@flinders.edu.au

Academic qualifications:
BA (Flinders University of SA), Graduate Diploma (Women's Studies) (SACAE),
PhD (Flinders University of SA).

Present position:

• Head of Department of Women's Studies
• Director of Studies

Areas of expertise:

• The gender, race and sexual politics of citizenship and national identity;
• The politics and cultural formation of reproduction, in particular abortion;
• Sexuality studies and queer theory;
• Interdisciplinary approaches to history, including oral history;
• Feminism and feminist theory;
• Australian history.

Barbara currently holds an Australian Research Council Discovery grant titled 'Reconfiguring intimate life: Gender and sexuality as sites of national redefinition in Australian since 1996'.

Current teaching:

• WMST 1002 Gender, Power & Change: Introducting Feminist Debates
• HIST 2063 Memory and the Politics of Difference: Sex, Race and Belonging
• WMST 3004 Indigenous Women's Voices: Race, Gender & Colonialism
• WMST 2008 Media and Cultural Identities; Gender, Race and Sexuality
  

Edited collections, special issues of journals:
2009 (forthcoming) with Damien Riggs, Transforming Bodies, Nations & Knowledges, Newcastle UK, Cambridge Scholarly Publishing.

2008 (forthcoming) 'The Child', special issue of Australian Feminist Studies, vol.23, no.57.

2008 (forthcoming) 'Gender and culture in contemporary Indonesia', special issue of Intersections, no.19.

2005 'Histories of sexuality', special issue of Australian Historical Studies, no.126.


Major and Recent Publications:
2009 (forthcoming) 'The Resignation of the Governor-General: Family Drama and National Reproduction', Cultural Studies Review.

2008 (forthcoming) 'Child politics, feminist analyses', introductory article to journal special issue on 'the child': forthcoming in Australian Feminist Studies, vol.23, no.57.

2008 (forthcoming) 'Men behaving badly: The racialised moral politics of masculinity in Australia': forthcoming in Beyond the hijab debates: new conversations on gender, race and religion edited by Tanja Dreher and Christine Ho, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2007 ' "Gay marriage", lesbian wedding', Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review, Vol.3 no.3.

2006 ‘Maternity, Whiteness and National Identity: The Case of Abortion’, Australian Feminist Studies, 21 (50).

2006 ‘The futures of abortion’, Women Making Time, eds E. McMahon & B. Olubas, UWA Press.

2006 (forthcoming) ‘Sexual citizenship in “The New Tasmania”’, Political Geography (special issue ‘Sexual Citizenship’) 25 (8).

2005 with Steven Angelides, ‘Introduction' 'histories of sexuality' special issue, Australian Historical Studies no. 126. (Steven Angelides & I were guest editors for this special issue).

2005 'Kerryn and Jackie': Thinking historically about lesbian marriages’, Australian Historical Studies (special issue ‘histories of sexuality’) no. 126.

2005 'The L Word. Histories, Theories and contemporary stories about lesbianism' in Perspectives in Human Sexuality, eds. J. Scott & G. Hawkes, OUP.

2004 'Contexts for lesbian citizenships across Australian public spheres’, Social Semiotics, vol. 14, no. 1.

2004 'Disciplining the aborting woman: Social work and changing discourses of race, class and reproduction in 1950s Australia' OeZG (Austrian Journal of History), (special issue ‘Bodies/Politics’), vol. 15, no. 1.

2004 'The View from Women’s Studies and Gender Studies: Australian Studies in a Feminist Context' in Teaching Australian Studies eds K. Darian-Smith, G. Worby & D. Carter, UQP.

2003. ‘Sexual citizenship in Tasmania: Stories of gay law reform’, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol. 17, no. 1.

2002 ‘”I had a party to celebrate my abortion” and other incredible stories’, Abortion – Politics, Access and Challenges: Conference Proceedings, Abortions Providers Federation of Australasia, Biennial Conference, Compiled by the Pregnancy Advisory Centre and IPD System Services Pty Ltd, SA.

2002 ‘Now that the war was over: The Australian Women's Weekly in 1946’ in Susan Sheridan with Barbara Baird, Kate Borrett and Lyndall Ryan, Who Was That Woman? The Australian Women’s Weekly in the Postwar Years, UNSW Press.

2001 ‘The death of a great Australian [Don Dunstan and the representation of homosexuality]’, Journal of Australian Studies, no. 71.

2001 ‘Abortion, Questions, Ethics, Embodiment’, History Workshop Journal, Issue 52.

2001 ‘Abortion’, Wakefield Companion to South Australian History, ed. W.R. Prest, Wakefield Press.

1998 'Lesbian identities' in Oxford Companion to Australian Feminism, eds B. Caine, M. Gatens, E. Grahame, J. Larbalestier & E. Webby, Oxford University Press.

1998 ‘Abortion Politics, Australia, 1998: Introduction', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 13, no. 28. (I was guest editor for a special section on abortion politics in this issue of AFS).

1998 'The self-aborting woman' Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 13, no. 28.

1997 'Putting police on notice: A South Australian case study', in Homophobic Violence, eds G. Mason & S. Tomsen, The Hawkins Press.

1997 'The role of the state in the regulation of sexuality: The police and violence against lesbians and gay men', Flinders Journal of Law Reform, vol. 2, no. 1.

1996 ‘”The incompetent, barbarous old lady round the corner”: The image of the backyard abortionist in pro-abortion politics', Hecate, vol. 22, no. 1.

1996 'Shifting proximities: Locating a lesbian self in relation to a “gay” epidemic' in Papers from Out There Too: A South Australian Conference on Culture, Communities, Sexuality, Drug Use, Sexual Health, Living with HIV/AIDS and Living with Hepatitis. Social Research and Practice Forum held in Adelaide, March 14 & 15 1996, HIV/AIDS Programs Unit, SAHC. (Reprinted in Social Alternatives, vol. 15, no. 4).