Flexibility won’t stop women retiring in poverty
This article interrogates recent proposals by the Australian Liberal Party to ‘stop the gender gap’ in retirement savings. Essentially the proposals offer women the ‘flexibility’ to pay more of their...
View ArticleBook review for Mothering and Psychoanalysis
Mothering and Psychoanalysis: Clinical, Sociological and Feminist Perspectives The December 2015 (no. 68) edition of the UK based psychoanalytic journal Free Associations has an excellent, richly...
View ArticleReflecting on the Cologne attacks one month on
Demonstrators in Hamburg, Germany, protesting violence against women there and across the country. Feminists have been criticised for not responding to the Cologne attacks, in particular for failing to...
View ArticleGaye Demanuele and the politics of homebirth
This article begins with an account of former midwife Gaye Demanuele’s recent referral to the director of public prosecutions by the Victorian Coroner Peter White following the death of Caroline...
View ArticleFeminist Writers’ Festival: Decommodifying Feminism
Feminist Writers’ Festival Petra Bueskens at FWF16. Photograph by Clareo O’Shannessy, 2016 I spoke at the Feminist Writers’ Festival with Andie Fox and Viv Smyth on the panel Decommodifying Feminism...
View ArticlePsychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia vol 4: Psychoanalytic...
PACJA vol. 4 is now published. As editor I put together this exciting themed edition on psychoanalytic theories and therapies. There are contributions by leaders in their fields including Professor...
View ArticleMatricentric Feminism is a Gift to the World
Andrea O’Reilly has a new book out called Matricentric Feminism. What’s that you ask? Its a feminism that centres mothers and recognises that being a mother is its own social, political, economic and...
View ArticleWhy We Grieved For Hillary Clinton And Who Defends ‘Western Values’ Anyway?
Hillary Clinton It’s not often that elections, let alone foreign ones, elicit such a strong emotional response as the wave of grief that broke across liberal, intellectual and left social circles in...
View ArticleAustralia Needs A Universal Basic Income, And We Should Start With Mothers
Australia Needs A Universal Basic Income, And We Should Start With Mothers Women should not need access to a husband to avoid poverty. My New Matilda piece Mothers and Basic Income: The Case for...
View ArticleMothers And Basic Income: The Case For An Urgent Intervention
The gender pay gap requires urgent attention, writes Dr Petra Bueskens. But there is a strong case to be made for the reality that mothers and single mothers should be at the front of the queue.*...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....