Australian Feminist Studies Special Issue: Witnessing, Trauma and Social Suffering: Feminist Perspectives

Abstract

This special issue—Witnessing, Trauma and Social Suffering: Feminist Perspectives—emerged from a conference that Rosanne Kennedy and Gillian Whitlock convened at the Australian National University in April 2009. The conference brought together scholars and critics from a range of disciplines, with the aim of conceptualising trauma, suffering, and witnessing beyond the paradigm of trauma theory that had become dominant, particularly in the humanities.