BA (Hons) (W Syd) PhD (ANU)
Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies
Chair – Postgraduate Committee
Contact details
Room 5C13, Richardson Building
Tel +64 3 479 8759
Email rebecca.stringer@otago.ac.nz
Rebecca Stringer is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies and Co-ordinator of the Minor in Criminology. She is the author of Knowing Victims: Feminism, Agency and Victim Politics in Neoliberal Times (Hove, East Sussex: Routledge, 2014) and co-editor, with Hilary Radner, of Feminism At the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema (New York: Routledge, 2011). Rebecca’s current research focuses on gender, feminism and the visual culture of victimhood. Rebecca gained her PhD in Political Science at the Australian National University, following undergraduate study in art theory and criticism at Western Sydney University, where she graduated with first class honors, the University Medal, and a Sydney Mechanics School of Art Award.
Teaching
I co-ordinate and teach:
GEND 201: Introduction to Feminist Theory
GEND 208/ 308: Governing Bodies
GEND 209/ 309: Critical Victimology
I teach sections of:
GEND 401 Debates in Gender and Sexuality
Postgraduate supervision
- Social construction of victimhood
- Feminist theory and politics
Current and recent students
Bell Murphy PhD (primary supervisor)
Empowerment beyond the neoliberal self: An autoethnography of a feminist self defence teacher in Aotearoa
Kayla Stewart PhD (co-supervisor)
Sexual victimisation amongst students from a New Zealand university
Sally Beale PhD (co-supervisor)
Perceptions of child sexual abuse (CSA) among social workers and social work educators: implications for social work education and practice
Anna McMartin PhD (co-supervisor)
Rational economic families: economic ideas meet social policy during New Zealand's reform era
Gabrielle Hine PhD (co-supervisor)
Shaping motherhood: representations of pregnancy in popular media
Dianne Smith PhD (co-supervisor)
Deci-belles: gender and power in sound engineering for popular music in New Zealand
Fiona Douglas PhD (co-supervisor)
Constructing professional identity: how career advice, guidance and counselling practitioners' construct their own sense of professional identity in relation to their work environment
Bell Murphy MA (primary supervisor)
Empowerment beyond the neoliberal self: an autoethnography of a self defence teacher in Aotearoa
Karl Leisky MA (primary supervisor)
Theorising ‘safe space’
Georgia Knowles MA (primary supervisor)
Looking at rape prevention: representations of sexuality, gender and rape myth in rape prevention poster campaigns
Marita Leask MA (primary supervisor)
Exceptional choices? A discursive examination of abortion discourses in New Zealand
Eliza Muirhead MA (primary supervisor)
Reconsidering the nonhuman animal: a multidisciplinary approach
Lynda Cullen MA (primary supervisor)
From Wonder Woman to Aeon Flux: women heroes, feminism and feminity in post-war New Zealand
Gabrielle Hine MA (co-supervisor)
Jailbait, eye candy and loli-pops: adolescent subjectivity, femininity and sexuality in Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Thirteen (2003) and American Beauty (1996)
Rowan Arahia Easton MA (primary supervisor)
Gender and Colonisation in Aotearoa
Publications
Stringer, R. (2014). Knowing victims: Feminism, agency and victim politics in neoliberal times. Hove, UK: Routledge, 185p.
Stringer, R. (2013). Vulnerability after wounding: Feminism, rape law, and the differend. SubStance, 42(3), 148-168. doi: 10.1353/sub.2013.0031
Stringer, R. (2012). Impractical reconciliation: Reading the intervention through the Huggins-Bell debate. Australian Feminist Studies, 27(71), 19-36. doi: 10.1080/08164649.2012.648257
Radner, H., & Stringer, R. (Eds.). (2011). Feminism at the movies: Understanding gender in contemporary popular cinema. New York: Routledge, 320p.
Stringer, R. (2011). From victim to vigilante: Gender, violence and revenge in The Brave One (2007) and Hard Candy (2005). In H. Radner & R. Stringer (Eds.), Feminism at the movies: Understanding gender in contemporary popular cinema. (pp. 267-282). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Other Research Output
Stringer, R. (2008, April). Fact, fiction and the foetus: Violence against pregnant women and the politics of abortion. Feminist Research Speakers Series, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. [Public Lecture].
Stringer, R. (2008, May). From intervention to apology: Aboriginal sovereignty and the Australian State in the transition from Howard to Rudd. Interdisciplinary Political Theory Group Seminar, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. [Research Seminar].
Authored Book - Research
Stringer, R. (2014). Knowing victims: Feminism, agency and victim politics in neoliberal times. Hove, UK: Routledge, 185p.
Edited Book - Research
Radner, H., & Stringer, R. (Eds.). (2011). Feminism at the movies: Understanding gender in contemporary popular cinema. New York: Routledge, 320p.
Chapter in Book - Research
Stringer, R. (2011). From victim to vigilante: Gender, violence and revenge in The Brave One (2007) and Hard Candy (2005). In H. Radner & R. Stringer (Eds.), Feminism at the movies: Understanding gender in contemporary popular cinema. (pp. 267-282). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Radner, H., & Stringer, R. (2011). Introduction: ″Re-Vision″? Feminist film criticism in the twenty-first century. In H. Radner & R. Stringer (Eds.), Feminism at the movies: Understanding gender in contemporary popular cinema. (pp. 1-9). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Stringer, R. (2009). Rethinking the critique of 'victim feminism'. In E. Faulkner & G. Macdonald (Eds.), Victim no more: Women's resistance to law, culture and power. (pp. 20-27). Halifax, Canada: Fernwood.
Stringer, R. (2006). Is New Zealand a post-feminist paradise? In M. Thompson-Fawcett & C. Freeman (Eds.), Living together: Towards inclusive communities in New Zealand. (pp. 77-91). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
Stringer, R. (2000). ″A Nietzschean breed″: Feminism, victimology, ressentiment. In A. D. Schrift (Ed.), Why Nietzsche still? Reflections on drama, culture, and politics. (pp. 247-273). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Journal - Research Article
Stringer, R. (2013). Vulnerability after wounding: Feminism, rape law, and the differend. SubStance, 42(3), 148-168. doi: 10.1353/sub.2013.0031
Stringer, R. (2012). Impractical reconciliation: Reading the intervention through the Huggins-Bell debate. Australian Feminist Studies, 27(71), 19-36. doi: 10.1080/08164649.2012.648257
Stringer, R. (2007). A nightmare of the neocolonial kind: Politics of suffering in Howard's Northern Territory intervention. borderlands e-journal, 6(2). Retrieved from http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol6no2_2007/stringer_intervention.htm
Stringer, R. (2006). Fact, fiction and the foetus: Violence against pregnant women and the politics of abortion. Australian Feminist Law Journal, 25, 99-117.
Brook, H., & Stringer, R. (2005). Users, using, used: A beginner's guide to deconstructing drugs discourse. International Journal of Drug Policy, 16, 316-325.
Stringer, R. (2001). Blaming me blaming you: Victim identity in recent feminism. Outskirts, 8. Retrieved from http://www.chloe.uwa.edu.au/outskirts/archive/volume8/stringer
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Baird, B., Hart, V., & Stringer, R. (2010, June). Distinguished Dissidents [Roundtable discussion]. Invited presentation at the Challenging Politics: New Critical Voices Conference, Brisbane, Australia.
Stringer, R. (2010, June). Of rape, racism and rage: The politics of feminism and the Northern Territory intervention. Invited presentation at the Challenging Politics: New Critical Voices Conference, Brisbane, Australia.
Stringer, R. (2010, November). Vulnerability after wounding: Agency, rape law, and the differend. Keynote presentation at the University of Otago Postcolonial Studies Research Network Symposium: Vulnerability, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Stringer, R. (2009, June). Foucault and the Prison Information Group. Verbal presentation at the Department of Media, Film & Communication Foucault Symposium, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Stringer, R. (2007, April). Disarming resentment: Reading feminism and anti-feminism through Nietzsche's On the genealogy of morals. Keynote presentation at the Feminist Studies Group Interdisciplinary Conference: Resentment in/of Women's Studies, New York.
Stringer, R. (2006, July). Fact, fiction and the foetus: Recent legislative responses to violence against pregnant women. Verbal presentation at the Australian Women's Studies Association Conference: Twenty-First Century Feminisms, Melbourne, Australia.
