Gail Hawkes
Associate Professor, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences
Contact
| Email: | ghawkes@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Arts (E11) 147 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2277 (or +61 2 6773 2277 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3748 |
| Mobile: | 0409 523 798 |
Gail Hawkes (PhD, University of Manchester) is Associate Professor of Sociology. For the last twenty years she has taught and published on the history of ideas about sex and pleasure in the Anglophone west. She is the author of three monographs on the topic, the most recent being on the history of ideas about the sexual child. Her current funded research project explores the relationship between aging, sexuality and the body in older Australian women. She has also bee a long-term advocate for sexual citizenship rights, most recently in developing a project on the experiences of female to male transsexuals.
Areas of Teaching
- SOCY336 Sociology of Families and Family relationships
- SOCY382 A Sociology of Sex and Sexuality
- SOCY333 Qualitative Research Methods
- SOCY100 Introduction to Sociology.
Honours and postgraduate areas of supervision
- Sexual diversity
- Gender and the body
- Childhood and the family
- Emotions and the professions
- Women and post-colonial development
- Aging and culture.
Selected recent publications
Attwood, Feona; Hawkes, Gail and Egan, Danielle, et al. (2012) “Engaging with the Bailey: academia and authenticity”, Psychology & Sexuality, 3 (1): 69–94.
Minichiello, Victor; Hawkes, Gail and Pitts, Marian (2011) Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV in Older Adults," Current Infectious Disease Reports, 13 (2).
Egan, Danielle and Hawkes, Gail (2010) Theorizing the Sexual Child in Modernity Palgrave Macmillan: New York.
Egan, Danielle and Hawkes, Gail (2010) ‘Childhood Sexuality, Normalization and the Social Hygiene Movement in the Anglophone West.’ Social History of Medicine, 23 (1): 56–78
Hawkes, Gail (2004) Sex and Pleasure in Western Culture Cambridge: Polity Press.
Hawkes, Gail (1996) A Sociology of Sex and Sexuality Buckinghamshire: London: Open University Press.