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Diane Bell Diane Bell i(A89647 works by)
Born: Established: 1943 ;
Gender: Female
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1 Untitled Diane Bell (interviewer), single work interview
1 It’s All Connected Diane Bell , 2023 single work prose
— Appears in: It's All Connected : Feminist Fiction and Poetry 2023;
1 A Feminist Manifesto : Never Waste a Good Crisis Diane Bell , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Not Dead Yet : Feminism, Passion and Women's Liberation 2021;
1 Tom Trevorrow : A Ngarrindjeri Man of High Degree Diane Bell , 2013 single work obituary (for Tom Trevorrow )
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 6 no. 1 2013;
1 Blenders : A Story in Five Parts Diane Bell , 2010 single work short story
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 122 2010; (p. 72)
1 5 y separately published work icon Listen to Ngarrindjeri Women Speaking : Kungun Ngarrindjeri Miminar Yunnan Kungun Ngarrindjeri Miminar Yunnan Diane Bell (editor), North Melbourne : Spinifex Press , 2008 Z1527504 2008 anthology life story

'Ngarrindjeri women came to prominence in the 1990s with the Hindmarsh Island Bridge affair. Labelled "liars" in 1995 by a South Australian Royal Commission then vindicated in the Federal Court in 2001 as "truth-tellers", these Ngarrindjeri miminar have much to be angry about. But, they also have stories to tell about their lives and their visions for the future. Here they take us into their world of caring for their country, their families and their nation.

'What are our needs? What do we want to address our needs? Where are we going? What does the future hold for us, our children, our grandchildren, our young women?

'Their stories will charm and delight, and their stories will jar and shock. They ask that you kungun [listen] to their yunnan [speaking].

'When the Ngarrindjeri women of South Australia asked Diane Bell if she would work with them in the running of some workshops to develop a booklet about culture and governance, none of them realised quite where it would take them. This book is the result. It has developed from a booklet to a book that outlines their visions for the future. A future in which their culture is respected, their stories heard, their laws carried out.' (Publisher's blurb)

1 8 y separately published work icon Evil Diane Bell , North Melbourne : Spinifex Press , 2005 Z1202518 2005 single work novel crime Something is awry. What happened to the previous occupant of her newly-painted office? Professor Scrutari's fieldwork begins. Her notebooks fill. And the mystery mounts: disturbing odours that no air cleanser will disperse, turbulent faculty meetings, tenure politics, intrigue around women's bodies, and a strange ginger cat. The mix is complicated by secret student alliances, predatory priests, the end of a marriage and new love, an imperious college president, a lumbering dean, a faction-ridden Religious Studies Department, a radical mass and a dissident feminist liturgy. (Publisher's blurb)
1 2 y separately published work icon Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin : A World That Is, Was, And Will Be Diane Bell , Melbourne - North : Spinifex Press , 1998 Z1591335 1998 single work non-fiction oral history

'In Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin, Diane Bell invites her readers into the complex and contested world of the cultural beliefs and practices of the Ngarrindjeri of South Australia; teases out the meanings and misreadings of the written sources; traces changes and continuities in oral accounts; challenges assumptions about what Ngarrindjeri women know, how they know it, and how outsiders may know what is to be known. Wurruwarrin: knowing and believing.'

'In 1995, a South Australian Royal Commission found Ngarrindjeri women to have “fabricated” their beliefs to stop the building of a bridge from Goolwa to Hindmarsh Island. By 2001, in federal court, the women were vindicated as truth-tellers. In 2009, the site was registered, but scars remain of that shameful moment.' (Source: Spinifex Press website)

1 On Diane Bell's Daughters of the Dreaming Diane Bell , 1995 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 1995; (p. 34-37)

'Introductory comment, Editor

In 1993, Allen and Unwin published a second edition of Diane Bell's Daughters of the Dreaming. In the important Epilogue to the book, Bell comments: 'In explicating the critical perspective from which I write in 1992, I am writing reflexively of my earlier reflexivity!' (1993, 273). In undertaking this project, she makes the point (277): 'It is obvious to me now that building a case for the merits of an ethnography that begins with the experience of women entails methodological and epistemological considerations'. Her discussion of epistemological considerations is informed by standpoint theories, the attraction of which, she suggests (282), is 'that they balance the feminist intuition that women have something real to say about their lives with the anthropological injunction to transcend individual experience in our ethnographic accounts'.' (Introduction)

3 9 y separately published work icon Daughters of the Dreaming Diane Bell , Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1993 8553183 1993 single work life story

'This new edition, which is based on research done in the 1970s, includes an epilogue in which Bell reflects on her original fieldwork from the perspective of the 1990s, examining the changes in the field and in feminist theory and practice. ' (Source: Publisher's website)

1 Topsy Napurrula Nelson : Teacher, Philosopher and Friend Diane Bell , 1985 single work biography
— Appears in: Fighters and Singers : The Lives of Some Australian Aboriginal Women 1985; (p. 1-18)

Diane Bell meets Topsy Napurrula Nelson, Topsy draw's Bell's attention to the significance of country and its bounty.

1 For Our Families : The Kurundi Walk-off and the Ngurrantji Venture Diane Bell (editor), 1978 anthology non-fiction oral history
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , vol. 2 no. 1 1978; (p. 33-62)
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