Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes

Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies and
Political & International Studies Flinders University

(ON LEAVE SEMESTER 2, 2008)

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

Room:  315 Social Sciences South Building
Telephone: (08) 8201 3133 (in Australia); (618) 8201 3133 (outside Australia)

Fax: (08) 8201 5111 (in Australia); (618) 8201 5111 (outside Australia)

E-mail: Yvonne.Corcoran-Nantes@flinders.edu.au

Academic Qualifications: BA, MA, PhD (Liverpool)

Present position:

• Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies/Political & International Studies

Areas of expertise:

• Gender studies
• Gender and politics
• Gender and international relations
• Third World development and underdevelopment
• Changing status of women in societies in transition such as Central Asia, Mongolia and East Timor
• Gender and class struggle in the Third World (especially Latin America)

Current Teaching

• Gender and Development
• Feminist Research Strategies
• Feminist Political Theory
• Gender and Politics in Latin America
• Gender and International Politics
• Politics of the Third World States
  

Major and Recent Publications:

• Lost Voices: Central Asian Women Confronting Transition, Zed Books, London, 2005.
  
  
• "A History of Modern Brazil: The Past Against the Future" (2003) by Colin M. MacLachlan, Bulletin of Latin American Research, 2005, 24(1):131-133.(Book Review)
  
  
• "Useful or Useless: Feminist Theory and Female Empowerment in Indonesia" in Embracing the Earth: Women's Worlds 2005 - 9th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women Abstract Book, Ewha Woman's University, Seoul, Korea.
  
  
• 'Australia-Country Institutional Report' in Women's/Gender Studies in Asia-Pacific, UNESCO, Bangkok, 2004, pp.195-199.

• 'Female Consciousness or Feminist Consciousness?: Women's Consciousness Raising in Community-Based Struggles in Brazil' in B. Smith (ed.), Feminist Theory Reader, Routledge, New York, 2003, pp.126-137.

• Voices from Within: Brazilians Talk About the Landless Movement, University of Miami Press, (in progress).

• 'Environment: Commonwealth of Independent States' in C. Kramarae and D. Spender (eds), Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge, Routledge, London & New York, 2001.

• Women's Access to Micro-Credit in Mongolia, WIRC, Ulaanbatar, 1999, (with A. Luvsanjamts and U. Gombosuren).

• The Economic Status of Mongolian Women in the Transition Period , WIRC: Ulaanbatar 1998.

• 'Chattels and Concubines: Women in Slavery in Brazil' in Ronit Lentin (ed.), Gender and Catastrophe, Zed Books: London 1997.

• '"We've Got One of Those": The Peripheral Status of Women in Male-Dominated Industries', in D. Dunn (ed.), Workplace/Women's Place: An Anthology, Roxbury Publishing, Los Angeles, 1997 (with K. Roberts)

• The Women of Central Asia, UNESCAP, Bangkok, 1995.