- Senior Lecturer in Media & Communications, University of Sydney
Dr Fiona Giles is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney, and the author of Fresh Milk: The Secret Life of Breasts. Her research interests encompass journalism, genre and gender studies; the role of pleasure in health promotion; and representations of breastfeeding and maternal sexuality. She also teaches creative nonfiction and feature writing. Her most recent publication is ‘“Reinstating Pleasure in Reality”: Promoting Breastfeeding Through Ars Erotica’, in Beyond Health, Beyond Choice: Breastfeeding Constraints and Realities (Rutgers University Press, 2012).
Experience
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2008–presentSenior Lecturer, University of Sydney
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2005–2007Lecturer, University of Sydney
Education
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1990Oxford University , Doctor of Philosophy
Publications
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2012“’Reinstating Pleasure in Reality’: Promoting Breastfeeding Through Ars Erotica”, Beyond Health, Beyond Choice: Breastfeeding Constraints and Realities, Rutger University Press
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2010“Mrs Robinson’s Vindication: Hollywood Representations of the Sexually Active Mother” , Outskirts: Feminisms Along the Edge, May
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2009“From ‘Gift of Loss’ to Self Care: The Significance of Induced Lactation in Ta Miike’s Visitor !" , Giving Breast Milk: Body Ethics and Contemporary Breastfeeding Practice, Toronto: Demeter Press
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2008“The Uses of Pleasure: Reconfiguring Lactation, Sexuality and Mothering” , Maternal Realities: Corpo-‘Realities’, Psycho-‘Realities’, Socio-Economic ‘Realities’, Newcastle, En
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2007“Milkbrain: Writing the Cognitive Body” , Australian Humanities Review
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2005“The Tears of Lacteros: Integrating the Meanings of the Human Breast” , Body Parts: Critical Explorations in Corporeality, London: Lexington Books,
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2005“The Well-Tempered Breast: Fostering Fluidity in Sexual Relations” , Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal Special Issue on Body Modification, Vol. 34, No.3-4, A
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2004“Relational And Strange: A Preliminary Foray Into A Project to Queer Breastfeeding” , Australian Feminist Studies, Special Issue: Meanings of Breastmilk: New Feminist Flavours, Alison Ba
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2004“Fountains of Love and Loveliness: In Praise of the Dripping Wet Breast”, Mother Matters: Motherhood As Discourse and Practice, Toronto: Assoc'n for Research on Mothering
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2004Meanings of Breastmilk: New Feminist Flavours, Special Issue of Australian Feminist Studies Vol 19 Issue 45. Ed. Fiona Giles and Alison Bartlett
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2003Fresh Milk: The Secret Life of Breasts, NY: Simon and Schuster; Sydney: Allen and Unwin
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2000Chick For A Day: What Would You Do If You Were One? , New York: Simon and Schuster; Sydney: Social Change, Australia
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1998Too Far Everywhere: Situating the Heroine in Nineteenth Century Australian Fiction, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press
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1997Dick For A Day: What Would You Do If You Had One? , New York: Villard; Sydney: Random House
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1992Melanie, Sydney: Picador Australia
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1987From the Verandah: Stories of Love and Landscape by Nineteenth Century Australian Women, , Ringwood, Melbourne: McPhee Gribble/Penguin
Grants and Contracts
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2010Alcohol and Harm Minimisation Ammong Australian University Students
- Role:
- Chief Investigator
- Funding Source:
- ARC
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2009Discrimination and Vilification in Advertising: Report Produced by the Advertising Standards Bureau
- Role:
- Co-Author
- Funding Source:
- Advertising Standards Bureau
Contact Fiona for
- General
- Media request
- Speaking request
- Consulting / Advising
- Research collaboration
- Research supervision
- Location: Sydney, Australia
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