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As a mature-aged student, Carolyn Brewer studied Feminist Studies and Religious Studies at Canterbury University, before going to Murdoch University in Perth to focus her honours year on the debates surrounding the ordination of women into the Anglican Church in Australia. In 1993, she accepted a Murdoch doctoral scholarship to further explore the impact of Christianity on women's lives—specifically on Catholicism in the Philippines.
Now based in the Gender Relations Centre in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University, Carolyn's research interests continue to focus on issues relating to gender and religion in the Philippines. Her most recent research project seeks to explore the history of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the archipelago from her introduction by the Spanish in the sixteenth century to the present day phenomenon of devotion to Our Mother of Perpetual Help at Baclaran. | |
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Carolyn is also editor of the electronic journal, Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific. Her key publications include: | ||