Petra Bueskens

Carole Pateman: The Sexual Contract and its Legacy

Petra Bueskens

Book Chapter  |  2021

Gillard’s Dilemma: The Sexual Contract and Maternal Citizenship

Petra Bueskens

Book Chapter  |  2020

This collection defines the field of maternal studies in Australia for the first time. Leading motherhood researchers explore how ..

Mothers Reproducing the Social: Chodorow and Beyond

Petra Bueskens

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Psychosocial Studies

In The reproduction of mothering, Nancy Chodorow laid the blueprint for understanding mothers and daughters in their intricate psy..

Contextualising australian mothering and motherhood

CP Leahy, P Bueskens

Book Chapter  |  2020

Germaine Greer’s On Rape Reconsidered

Petra Bueskens

Journal article  |  2020  |  Hecate: an interdisciplinary journal of women's liberation

Analysis of Germaine Greer's 2018 book On Rape and its reception, especially by feminists.

Defining maternal studies in Australia: The birth of a field

P Bueskens, CP Leahy

Book Chapter  |  2020

Introduction: Nancy Chodorow and the Reproduction of Mothering: Forty Years On

Petra Bueskens

Book Chapter  |  2020

Review of Modern Motherhood and Women’s Dual Identities: Rewriting the Sexual Contract

Julie Stephens

Journal article  |  2019  |  Studies in the Maternal

Gillard’s Dilemma: The Sexual Contract and Maternal Citizenship

Petra Bueskens

Presentation  |  2019

Keynote speech at AMIRCI M'otherhood in the Age of Neo-Liberalism and Individualization' Conference, The University of Sydney, Syd..

Modern Mothers’ Dual Identities and the New Sexual Contract

Petra Bueskens

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of the Motherhood Initiative

Modern Mothers’ Dual Identities: Subverting Contradiction

Petra Bueskens

Presentation  |  2018

Keynote lecture. ‘Modern Mothers’ Dual Identities: Subverting Contradiction’. Matricentric Feminism Conference, Syracuse Universit..

Maternal Subjectivity: From Containing to Creating

Petra Bueskens

Presentation  |  2018

Invited lecture. 'Maternal Subjectivity’. Empathink Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourn..

Poverty-traps and pay-gaps: why (single) mothers need basic income

P Bueskens

Presentation  |  2018

This paper was presented at the Australian Mothering in Historical and Contemporary Perspective Symposium, The University of Melbo..

The Gender Pay Gap, Mothers and Basic Income

Petra Bueskens

Presentation  |  2018

Conference presentation. 'The Gender Pay Gap, Mothers and Basic Income’. Historical and Contemporary Motherhoods Symposium, The Un..

Maternal Subjectivity: From Containing to Creating

P Bueskens

Book Chapter  |  2018

Mothers, scholars and feminists Inside and outside the Australian academic system

Petra Bueskens, Kim Toffoletti

Book Chapter  |  2018

Maternal Subjectivity

Petra Bueskens

Presentation  |  2017

Invited lecture. ‘Maternal Subjectivity’. AMIRCI: A Feminism for Mothers Symposium, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Aus..

Single mothers and basic income

P Bueskens

Presentation  |  2017

Presentation at 'People, Place and Privilege Conference', Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia, Feb 16-17, 2017.

Poverty-traps and pay-gaps: Why (single) mothers need basic income

P Bueskens

Book Chapter  |  2017

Single mothers and basic income: a precondition for living in a post-welfare state

P Bueskens

Presentation  |  2016

Presentation at 'Cities and Successful Societies’, The Australian Sociological Association Conference, Australian Catholic Univers..

Decommodifying feminism

P Bueskens, A Fox

Presentation  |  2016

Invited speaker on panel 'Decommodifying feminism’ at the Feminist Writers Festival, 26 August 2016, Queen Victoria Women’s Centre..

Mothers and the #UBI: or what does basic income have to do with gender justice?

P Bueskens

Presentation  |  2016

Invited plenary panel speaker. Plenary Panel 'Mothering under neo-liberalism' at the ‘Negotiating Demands: 21st Century Motherhood..

Carole Pateman and the category of 'the individual'

P Bueskens

Presentation  |  2016

Presentation at 'Women and Philosophy: History, Values, Knowledge’, The 16th Symposium of the International Association of Women P..

Editorial" Special Edition Psychoanalytic Theories and Therapies, Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia, volume 4

P BUESKENS

Journal article  |  2016  |  Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia,

Matricentric feminism is a gift to the world

P BUESKENS

Book Chapter  |  2016

Revolving mothers: increasing equality through (temporary) absence

P Bueskens

Presentation  |  2015

Presentation at The Australian Sociological Association Families & Relationships Symposium,

Breastfeeding in public: A personal and political memoir

P BUESKENS

Book Chapter  |  2015

Mothering and Psychoanalysis: Clinical, Sociological and Feminist Perspectives

P Bueskens

Book  |  2014

Interview with Ilene Philipson

P BUESKENS, I Philipson

Book Chapter  |  2014

Introduction: Mothering, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Sociology: Intersections and Antinomies

P BUESKENS

Book Chapter  |  2014

Good Psychotherapy is Sociological

P BUESKENS

Book Chapter  |  2014

Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World

Reference Work  |  2011

Sharon Hays

P Bueskens

Book Chapter  |  2010

When Eve Left The Garden: A Modern Tale About Mother Who Leave Their Families

P BUESKENS

Book Chapter  |  2005

From Perfect Housewife to Fishnet Stockings and Not Quite Back Again: One Mother’s Story of Leaving Home

P BUESKENS

Book Chapter  |  2004

The Impossibility of “Natural Parenting” for Modern Mothers: On Social Structure and the Formation of Habit

P BUESKENS

Book Chapter  |  2004

Latham Got it Wrong: Feminists are Critical of Social Structure Not Kids

P BUESKENS

Media

Modern Motherhood and Women’s Dual Identities

Petra Bueskens

Book

Keeping up supply: it isn't only about the milk

P BUESKENS

Media

Op ed examining the breastfeeding/expressing controversy around Australian Member of Parliament Kelly O’Dwyer in September 2015. I..

Breastfeeding and Work: Babies Need More Than Just (Pumped) Milk, They Also Need their Mother’s Bodies

P BUESKENS

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Routledge press blog, World Breastfeeding Week: Breastfeeding and Work, 1-7 August. Available online: https://www.routledge.com/nu..

‘Disempowered’ Men Still Lead on Economic Power

P BUESKENS

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Why We Grieved For Hillary Clinton And Who Defends ‘Western Values’ Anyway?

P BUESKENS

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Op Ed on the wave of grief experienced after the electoral defeat of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in favour of Donald Tr..

Gaye Demanuele and the Politics of Homebirth

P BUESKENS

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Op ed article on politics of home-birth in Australia examining the case of Melbourne midwife Gaye Demanuele.

Single Mothers and the Sexual Contract

P BUESKENS

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Reflecting on the Cologne Attacks One Month On

P BUESKENS

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Op Ed on the 2015/16 New Year's Eve attacks on women in the German city of Cologne with reflections on social, political and philo..

‘Flexibility’ Won’t Stop Women Retiring In Poverty

P BUESKENS

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Op ed on proposals by the Australian Liberal Party to ‘stop the gender gap’ in retirement savings. The proposals offer women the ‘..

Immanuel Kant. Malcolm Turnbull, Immanuel Kant And The Conundrum Of Small And Big L Liberals

P BUESKENS

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Op ed on the Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. In this article I respond to an article in New Matilda by Spencer Jackso..