Australian women : contemporary feminist thought / edited by Norma Grieve and Ailsa Burns.
"These essays by leading scholars represent the cutting edge of contemporary feminist thought in Australia today. Besides providing comprehensive coverage of key feminist issues in the region, the contributors also look at developments in the US and Europe. Questions are raised in a discussiono...
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Melbourne ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1994.
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Table of Contents:
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Australian Feminism since 1970
- 2. What Has Nationalism Offered Australian Women?
- 3. Women in Europe and Australia: Feminisms in Parallel?
- 4. Feminism on Two Continents: The Women's Movement in Australia and the United States
- 5. Living across Difference: Connecting Gender, Ethnicity, Class and Ageing in Australia
- 6. A Contemporary View of Aboriginal Women's Relationship to the White Women's Movement
- 7. Between Old World 'Barbarism' and Stone Age 'Primitivism': The Double Difference of the White Australian Feminist
- 8. 'Inducements to the Strong to Be Cruel to the Weak': Authoritative White Colonial Male Voices and the Construction of Gender in Koori Society
- 9. A Narrative on the Limits of Theory
- 10. Viral Identities: Feminisms and Postmodernisms
- 11. The Gendering of Knowledge: The Case of Anthropology and Feminism
- 12. Neo-classical Economics: A Feminist Perspective
- 13. Queer Theory and Its Discontents: Queer Desires, Queer Cinema
- 14. Unequal Partners: Women, Power and the Trade Union Movement
- 15. Women, Paid Work and Social Policy
- 16. 'She' Will Mean 'A Complaining Customer': Women as Shoppers c.1945-1970
- 17. Ladies to Women: Women and the Professions
- 18. The Seductive Allure of EEO
- 19. Provoking Comment: The Question of Gender Bias in the Provocation Defence - A Victorian Case Study
- 20. Women and the Secret Garden of Politics: Preselection, Political Parties and Political Science
- 21. Boys' Own Stories: Reading Gender in the Teen Movie
- 22. Can a Boy Be a Girlfriend? The Legacy of Gender Segregation in Childhood Play
- 23. Why Do Women Put Up With the Double Load?
- 24. Women's Studies in Australia
- Notes
- Index.