University home page

Find an ExpertProfiling the University of Melbourne's Researchers

PROF VERA CHRISTINE MACKIE



Contact Details

Organization: Historical Studies
Position: ARC PROFESSORIAL FELLOW
Email:
Homepage: http://www.history.unimelb.edu.au/staff/mackie.html
Work: 8344 5963
Fax: 8344 7894
Room: 534E
Level: 05
Building: John Medley Building
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Phd Adelaide University 01-Jan-1994

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
The iconography of liberation in modern Japan: politics and visual culture Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Large Research Grants Scheme 01/01/2001
A cultural history of the body in modern Japan Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2004

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Sexuality in a Transnational Frame: Australian Stories, Japanese Stories
    Year: 2007
    Book: On the Western Edge: Comparisons of Japan and Australia
    Publisher: API Network(Perth)
    Authors(s):
    Editors(s):
  • The Transformation of the Gendered Discourse of Rights in Postwar Japan
    Year: 2007
    Book: Emerging Concepts of Rights in Japanese Law
    Publisher: Robbins Collection Publications(Berkeley)
    Authors(s):
    Editors(s):

Journal Articles

Conference Publications/Papers

Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Review of Art, Nation and Gender: Ethnic Landscapes, Myths and Mother–Figures, edited by Tricia Cusack and Síghle Bhreathnach–Lynch
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Nations and Nationalism
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 163-4
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • The Spectacle of Women in Japanese Underground Theatre Posters
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Performance Paradigm
    Volume: 2
    Issue: March 2006
    Page numbers: 91-101
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.

Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • "Understanding through the Body": The Masquerades of Mishima Yukio and Morimura Yasumasa
    Year: 2005
    Book: Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
    Authors(s):
  • Embodied Subjects: Feminism in Imperial Japan
    Year: 2005
    Book: Japanese Women: Emerging from Subservience, 1868-1945
    Publisher: Global Oriental Publishing(Kent)
    Authors(s):

Journal Articles

  • Evdokia Petrova's Shoe
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Lilith
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 2005
    Page numbers: 22-26
    Publisher: University of Melbourne, Department of History(Melbourne)
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • In Search of innocence; Feminist Historians Debate the Legacy of Wartime Japan
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Feminist Studies
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 47
    Page numbers: 207-217
    Publisher: Carfax Publishing(Basingstroke)
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Review of Gender Politics in Japan and the United States: Comparing Women’s Movements, Rights and Politics, by Joyce Gelb
    Year: 2005
    Journal: International Feminist Journal of Politics
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 617-9
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Review of Transnational Women’s Activism: The United States, Japan, and Japanese Immigrant Communities in California, 1859–1920, by Rumi Yasutake
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Women and Social Movements
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 3
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.

Major Reference Works

  • Japan:Companion to Women's Historical Writing
    Year: 2005
    Reference Work Title: Japan
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan(New York)
    Author(s):

Reports

  • The Body of the Modern Girl and the Production of Gender in Visual Culture
    Year: 2005
    Customer: Japanese Department of Science and Education: Interim report on the Research Project "Modern Girl and Colonial Modernity in East Asia" (2003-2006)
    Report No:: 15201057
    Publisher: Japanese Department of Science and Education(Tokyo)
    Authors:

Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Shifting the axis: feminism and the transnational imaginary
    Year: 2004
    Book: State/Nation/Transation: perspectives on transnationalism in the Asia-Pacific
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
    Authors(s):

Journal Articles

  • Review of Japan’s Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution during World War II and the US Occupation, by Yuki Tanaka
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Global Change, Peace & Security
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 79-80
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Review of The New Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media and Women in Interwar Japan, by Barbara Sato
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy
    Volume: February
    Issue: 110
    Page numbers: Reviews
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Review of Working Out in Japan: Shaping the Female Body in Tokyo Fitness Clubs, by Laura Spielvogel
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Asian Studies Review
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 330-1
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Review of Janet Hunter, Women and the Labour Market in Japan's Industrialising Economy: The Textile Industry before The Pacific War
    Year: 2004
    Journal: International Review of Social History
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 318-20
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.

Publications in 2003

Books

  • Feminism in Modern Japan: Citizenship, Embodiment and Sexuality
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
    Authors(s):

Book Chapters

  • Creating Publics and Counterpublics on the Internet
    Year: 2003
    Book: Japanese Cybercultures
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
    Authors(s):
    Editors(s):

Journal Articles

  • Afghan Nights: historian and cultural analyst Vera Mackie alerts us to the power of media images and stories to influence our understanding of national identities and international political events
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Meanjin
    Volume: 62
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 200-4
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Faces of Feminism in Transnational Media Space
    Year: 2003
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 1-17
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.

Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • "Asia" in Everyday Life: Dealing with Difference in Contemporary Japan
    Year: 2002
    Book: Gender Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region: Agencies and Activisms
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
    Authors(s):
    Editors(s):
  • Embodiment, Citizenship and Social Policy in Contemporary Japan
    Year: 2002
    Book: Family and Social Policy in Japan: Anthropological Approaches
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
    Authors(s):
    Editors(s):
  • Picturing Political Space in 1920s and 1930s Japan
    Year: 2002
    Book: Nation and Nationalism in Japan
    Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon(London)
    Authors(s):
    Editors(s):

Journal Articles

  • Academic Bodies in Mediated Space: Japan and Australia
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Lilith
    Volume: 11
    Page numbers: 39-51
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Review of John Clammer, Japan and its Others
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Japanese Studies
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 88-90
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Women Questioning the Present: The Jûgoshi Nôto Collective
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Across Time and Genre: Reading and Writing Japanese Women's Texts
    Conference Publication: Across Time and Genre: Reading and Writing Women's Texts
    Page numbers: 144-8
    Publisher: University of Alberta(Edmonton)
    Author(s):
    Editor(s):

Publications in 2001

Books

  • Relationships: Japan and Australia, 1870's - 1950's
    Year: 2001
    Publisher: History Department, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
    Authors(s):

Book Chapters

  • Introduction: Relationships, Japan and Australia
    Year: 2001
    Book: Relationships: Japan and Australia, 1870's - 1950's
    Publisher: History Department, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
    Authors(s):

Journal Articles

  • Review of Dimensions of Japanese Society: Gender, Margins and Mainstream, by Kenneth Henshall
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Japanese Studies
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 108-10
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Review of Modern Girls, Shining Stars, the Skies of Tokyo: Five Japanese Women, by Phyllis Birnbaum
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Asian Studies Review
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 231-3
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Review of Permitted and Prohibited Desires, by Anne Allison
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context
    Volume: May
    Issue: 5
    Author(s):
    URL - open access http://www.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/issue4/mackie_review.html
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • Review of Michael Weiner (ed) Japan’s Minorities: The Myth of Homogeneity
    Year: 2001
    Journal: American Anthropologist
    Volume: 103
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 1215
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge locate this resource.
  • The Language of Globalization, Transnationality and Feminism
    Year: 2001
    Journal: International Feminist Journal of Politics
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 180-206
    Author(s):
    Super Search Source this item in the University's Catalouge