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Title

Australian women : feminist perspectives / edited by Norma Grieve and Patricia Grimshaw.

Publication

Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1981.

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Additional Authors

• Grieve, Norma
• Grimshaw, Patricia

Description

xv, 333 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

• "Australian Women: Feminist Perspectives" explores the position of women in Australian society from a broad range of perspectives: anthropology, sociology, education, history, psychology, biology and the arts. the stance of the writers is a feminist one, conceived in the widest sense of an appreciation of women's continuing inferior status and an advocacy of their cause, but explored through a variety of styles and commitments. The book begins with different answers to the debate on "how it all began" and proceeds to explore women's roles and experiences in traditional and urban Aboriginal settings, in convict, colonial and present times and as poets and novelists. It concludes with a consideration of feminist ideologies and prescriptions for change"--from back cover.
• Papers by Hamilton and Grimshaw separately annotated.

Subject

• Australia > Social conditions
• Women > Australia
• Women's rights > Australia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Norma Grieve and Patricia Grimshaw -- I. The origins of women's subordination. -- Engels, The origin of the family and feminist theory / Clare Burton -- Reclaiming their freedom: women and the Church / John R. Gaden -- Patriarchy: a refuge from maternal power? Dinnerstein's answer to Freud / Norma Grieve and Michael Perdices -- The sexual division of labor under capitalism / Ann Curthoys -- Biology: gender differentiation and sexual variation / Lesley Rogers -- Male and female brain structure: neuropsychological analyses / Anthony W.H. Buffery -- II. Forms and expressions of patriarchal power. -- A complex strategical situation: gender and power in Aboriginal Australia / Annette Hamilton -- Aboriginal women: a study of culture contact / Patricia Grimshaw -- Notes on women and literature: the case of poetry / Bev Roberts -- Our fathers' daughters: the problem of filiation in women writers of fiction / Kay Iseman -- She only married to be free: or Cleopatra vindicated / Marian Aveling -- Women's history and family history: an exploration of colonial family structure / Patricia Grimshaw and Graham Willet -- First wave feminism: history's judgement / Carol Bacchi -- Welfare and women: changing conceptions of welfare and problems of women's identity in Australia / Cynthia Turner -- Coping with life alone: widowed women in urban Australia / Robyn Penman, Linda Rosenman and Arthur Shulman -- Family, fertility and the labor market / Bettina Cass and Heather Radi -- Academic and media views of married women's employment / Katrina Alford -- III. Feminist analysis of subordination. -- Modern feminist theory / Michaela Kronemann -- The Australian feminist experience / Marian Simms -- The role of the school in sex-role stereotyping / Shirley N. Sampson -- Beyond sexual stereotypes. Androgyny: a model or an ideal? / Norma Grieve -- IV. Notes. Index.

ISBN

• 0195542932
• 0195543149

LCCN

^^^81196394^

OCLC

7878884

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library