Chilla Bulbeck

Margaret Chilla Bulbeck (born 1951)^[1] was the emeritus professor of women's studies at Adelaide University from 1997^[2] until 2008,^[3] and has published widely on issues of gender and difference.^[4]

Education[edit]

Bulbeck gained a degree in economics from the University of Adelaide (1972), a Master of Arts (1975) and a Ph.D. in sociology (1980) from the Australian National University, and an LL.B. from the University of Queensland (1991).^[3]

Political career[edit]

After retiring from academic life, Bulbeck entered politics as a full-time volunteer for The Greens (WA),^[5] becoming their Secretary and co-editor of their newsletter.^[6] She also ran, unsuccessfully in the 2013 Western Australian state election for the district of Mandurah.^[7]

Bibliography[edit]

Books[edit]

• Bulbeck, Chilla (1979). The iron fist and the velvet glove: an investigation of the power of the new petit-bourgeoisie in capitalist formations (Ph.D.). Australian National University. OCLC 846261268.
• Bulbeck, Chilla; Heath, Colleen (1985). Shadow of the hill. Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press. ISBN 9780909144975.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (1988). One world women's movement. London Winchester, Massachusetts: Pluto Press. ISBN 9781853050145.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (1993). Social sciences in Australia: an introduction. Sydney: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 9780729512602.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (2002) [1992]. Australian women in Papua New Guinea: colonial passages, 1920-1960. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521523202.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (1997). Living feminism: the impact of the women's movement on three generations of Australian women. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521465960.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (1998). Social sciences in Australia: an introduction (2nd ed.). Sydney: Harcourt Brace. ISBN 9780729532983.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (1998). Re-orienting western feminisms: women's diversity in a postcolonial world. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521589758.

Featured in the International Feminist Journal of Politics "rethinking the canon" series: Sisson Runyan, Anne (January 1999). "Rethinking the canon: reflections on a text that ought to be essential reading". International Feminist Journal of Politics. 1 (3): 487–490. doi:10.1080/146167499359862.

Extracted in Rothenberg, Paula S. (2006). Beyond borders: thinking critically about global issues. New York: Worth Publishers. ISBN 9780716773894.

• Bulbeck, Chilla (2005). Facing the wild ecotourism, conservation and animal encounters. London Sterling Virginia: Earthscan. ISBN 9781844071388.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (2009). Sex, love and feminism in the Asia Pacific: a cross-cultural study of young people's attitudes. ASAA women in Asia. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415470063.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (2012). Imagining the future: young Australians on sex, love and community. Adelaide, South Australia: University of Adelaide Press. ISBN 9781922064349.

Chapters in books[edit]

• Bulbeck, Chilla (1980), "Middle class workers: schisms in the new petty bourgeoisie", in Boreham, Paul; Dow, Geoff (eds.), Workers, economic crisis, and the state (volume 1), South Melbourne: Macmillan, pp. 127–142, ISBN 9780333299463.
• Bulbeck, Chilla; Whitlock, Gillian (1988), "A small and often still voice: women intellectuals in Australia", in Head, Brian; Walter, James (eds.), Intellectual movements and Australian society, Melbourne Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 145–169, ISBN 9780195546071.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (1998), "Treating ourselves to a republic", in Gatens, Moira; Mackinnon, Alison (eds.), Gender and institutions: welfare, work, and citizenship, Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 167–184, ISBN 9780521635769.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (2003), "Western feminisms: through the eyes of the "other"", in Bird, Delys; Were, Wendy; White, Terri-Ann (eds.), Future imaginings: sexualities and genders in the new millennium, Crawley, Western Australia: University of Western Australia Press for the Westerly Centre, pp. 11–25, ISBN 9781920694074.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (2005), "Equality and difference feminism: a comparison of the attitudes of young Australians and Japanese", in Alomes, Stephen (ed.), Islands in the stream: Australia and Japan face globalisation, Hawthorn, Victoria: Maribyrnong Press, pp. 43–60, ISBN 9780975238417.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (2005), "Gender policies: hers to his", in Saunders, Peter; Walter, James (eds.), Ideas and influence: social science and public policy in Australia, Sydney: UNSW Press, pp. 141–158, ISBN 9780868409146.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (2007), "Hailing the "authentic other": constructing the Third World woman as aid recipient in donor NGO agendas", in Sarker, Sonita (ed.), Sustainable feminisms, Amsterdam Boston: JAI Press, pp. 59–73, ISBN 9780762314393.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (2007), "'Our' whiteness and 'their' difference? The boundaries around humanity drawn by young Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians", in Petrilli, Susan (ed.), Il bianco in questione [White matters], Athanor: Semiotica, Filosofia, Arte, Letteratura (volume 10) (in Italian), Roma: Meltemi, pp. 326–331, ISBN 9788883535581.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (2009), ""Recognising" each other in conversations between Anglo feminists and Muslim women", in Dreher, Tanja; Ho, Christina (eds.), Beyond the hijab debates: new conversations on gender, race, and religion, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 208–221, ISBN 9781443801690.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (2011), "Gender perspectives", in McAllister, Ian; Dorwick, Steve; Hassan, Riaz (eds.), The Cambridge handbook of social sciences in Australia, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, pp. 480–498, ISBN 9781107403444.

Journal articles[edit]

• Bulbeck, Chilla (March 1981). "Some uses of historical analysis in the study of the state". Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology. 17 (1): 77–82. doi:10.1177/144078338101700110. S2CID 143573533.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (December 1983). "The iron ore stockpile and dispute activity in the Pilbara". Journal of Industrial Relations. 25 (4): 431–444. doi:10.1177/002218568302500403. S2CID 154222750.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (November 1986). "Manning the machines: women in the furniture industry 1920-1960". Labor History. 51 (1): 24–32. doi:10.2307/27508795. JSTOR 27508795.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (November 1987). "The hegemony of Queensland's difference". Journal of Australian Studies. 11 (21): 19–28. doi:10.1080/14443058709386955.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (1987). "Gender studies at Griffith University". Women's Studies International Forum. 10 (5): 537–541. doi:10.1016/0277-5395(87)90010-0.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (April 1991). "Aborigines, memorials and the history of the frontier". Australian Historical Studies. 25 (96): 168–178. doi:10.1080/10314619108595878.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (July 1991). "Hearing the difference: first and third world feminisms". Asian Studies Review. 15 (1): 77–91. doi:10.1080/03147539108712747.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (January 1996). "How the Beijing Platform for Action addresses women's commonality and diversity". Development Bulletin. 36: 12–15. Pdf.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (January 1996). "Less than overwhelmed by Beijing: problems concerning women's commonality and diversity". Australian Feminist Law Journal. 6 (1): 30–38. doi:10.1080/13200968.1996.11077189.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (1999). "Simone de Beauvoir and generations of feminists". Hecate. 25 (2): 1–18. Archived from the original on 29 February 2016. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (September 2000). "The 'space between' or why does the gap between 'us' and 'them' look like an unbridgeable chasm?". Asian Journal of Women's Studies. 6 (3): 36–64. doi:10.1080/12259276.2000.11665885. S2CID 145437386.^{[permanent dead link]}
• Bulbeck, Chilla (March–April 2001). "Articulating structure and agency: How women's studies students express their relationships with feminism". Women's Studies International Forum. 24 (2): 141–156. doi:10.1016/S0277-5395(01)00161-3.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (2003). ""I wish to become the leader of women and give them equal rights in society": how young Australians and Asians understand feminism and the women's movement". Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. 7 (1–2): 4–25. hdl:1959.13/1046813.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (December 2004). "The 'white worrier' in South Australia: attitudes to multiculturalism, immigration and reconciliation". Journal of Sociology. 40 (4): 341–361. doi:10.1177/1440783304048379. S2CID 144261706.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (2005). "Stifling freedom of thought in the information age?". Dialogue. 24 (1): 38–48. Archived from the original on 29 February 2016. Retrieved 9 October 2015. Pdf.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (January 2005). "'The mighty pillar of the family': Young people's vocabularies to household gender arrangements in the Asia-Pacific". Gender, Work and Organization. 12 (1): 14–31. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0432.2005.00260.x.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (March 2005). "Women are exploited way too often: feminist rhetorics at the end of equality". Australian Feminist Studies. 20 (46): 65–76. doi:10.1080/0816464042000334546. S2CID 144975938.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (2006). "Explaining the generation debate: envy, history or feminism's victories?". Lilith: A Feminist History Journal. 15: 35–47.
• Bulbeck, Chilla; Balme, Jane (December 2008). "Engendering origins: theories of gender in sociology and archaeology". Australian Archaeology, Special Festschrift Issue for Sandra Bowdler. 67: 3–11.

Papers[edit]

• Bulbeck, Chilla (1988). The stone laurel: of race, gender and class in Australian memorials. Nathan, Queensland: Institute for Cultural Policy Studies, Division of Humanities, Griffith University. ISBN 9780868573304. Occasional paper no. 5.
• Bulbeck, Chilla (1988). Staying in line or getting out of place: the experiences of expatriate women in Papua New Guinea, 1920-1960: issues of race and gender. London: Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. ISBN 9780902499898. Working paper no. 35.
• Bulbeck, Chilla; Bennett, Tony; Finnane, Mark (1991). Accessing the past. Nathan, Queensland: Institute for Cultural Policy Studies, Division of Humanities. ISBN 9780646073828.
• Bulbeck, Chilla; Williams, Jan (1993). The unintended gender effects of policy and practice on postgraduate research at Griffith University: report. Brisbane, Queensland: Australian Institute for Women's Research and Policy. OCLC 38356390.
• Bulbeck, Chilla; Collins, Janine (1994). The casualisation of research postgraduate employment. Canberra: A.G.P.S. ISBN 9780644426237.
• Bulbeck, Chilla; Auer, Jocelyn; Brugger, Bill (July 1996). Report of the review of the Women's Studies Unit, Flinders University. Adelaide, South Australia: Flinders University of South Australia. OCLC 38413612.
• Bulbeck, Chilla; Kwitko, Ludmilla; Stewart, Anna; Dower, Jo (August 1997). Characteristics of parties involved in domestic violence protection orders: an analysis of court and police data: report. Australia: Criminology Research Grants. 29/94-5. Archived from the original on 29 February 2016. Retrieved 9 October 2015. Pdf. Archived 29 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine
• Bulbeck, Chilla (1998). Proceedings of the Australian Women's Studies Association Seventh Conference. Adelaide, South Australia: Department of Social Inquiry, University of Adelaide. ISBN 9780646356167.
• Bulbeck, Chilla; Auer, Ros (1999). Our town's 'con.con': the Social Inquiry constitutional convention, 15 September 1999. Adelaide, South Australia: Department of Social Inquiry, University of Adelaide. ISBN 9780863968174.
• Bulbeck, Chilla; et al. (1999). Asian migration: Pacific Rim dynamics. Taipei, Taiwan: Kuo li Tʻai-wan ta hsüeh, Ao-chou yen chiu hsiao tsu chʻu pan. ISBN 9789570248586.

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External links[edit]

• Profile page: Chilla Bulbeck, University of Adelaide