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Title

Australian women : contemporary feminist thought / edited by Norma Grieve and Ailsa Burns.

Publication

Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Grieve, Norma
• Burns, Ailsa

Description

xii, 356 p.; 21 cm.

Subject

• Feminism > Australia
• Women > Australia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [296]-342) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction / Norma Grieve and Ailsa Burns -- 1. Australian Feminism since 1970 / Ann Curthoys -- 2. What Has Nationalism Offered Australian Women? / Jill Roe -- 3. Women in Europe and Australia: Feminisms in Parallel? / Gisela Kaplan -- 4. Feminism on Two Continents: The Women's Movement in Australia and the United States / Anne Summers -- 5. Living across Difference: Connecting Gender, Ethnicity, Class and Ageing in Australia / Gill Bottomley -- 6. A Contemporary View of Aboriginal Women's Relationship to the White Women's Movement / Jackie Huggins -- 7. Between Old World 'Barbarism' and Stone Age 'Primitivism': The Double Difference of the White Australian Feminist / Marilyn Lake -- 8. 'Inducements to the Strong to Be Cruel to the Weak': Authoritative White Colonial Male Voices and the Construction of Gender in Koori Society / Patricia Grimshaw and Andrew May -- 9. A Narrative on the Limits of Theory / Philipa Rothfield -- 10. Viral Identities: Feminisms and Postmodernisms / Vicki Kirby.
• 11. The Gendering of Knowledge: The Case of Anthropology and Feminism / Maila Stivens -- 12. Neo-classical Economics: A Feminist Perspective / Gillian Hewitson -- 13. Queer Theory and Its Discontents: Queer Desires, Queer Cinema / Barbara Creed -- 14. Unequal Partners: Women, Power and the Trade Union Movement / Carmel Shute -- 15. Women, Paid Work and Social Policy / Lois Bryson -- 16. 'She' Will Mean 'A Complaining Customer': Women as Shoppers c.1945-1970 / Beverley Kingston -- 17. Ladies to Women: Women and the Professions / Rosemary Pringle -- 18. The Seductive Allure of EEO / Margaret Thornton -- 19. Provoking Comment: The Question of Gender Bias in the Provocation Defence -- A Victorian Case Study / Adrian Howe -- 20. Women and the Secret Garden of Politics: Preselection, Political Parties and Political Science / Marian Simms -- 21. Boys' Own Stories: Reading Gender in the Teen Movie / Stephanie Bunbury.
• 22. Can a Boy Be a Girlfriend? The Legacy of Gender Segregation in Childhood Play / Norma Grieve -- 23. Why Do Women Put Up With the Double Load? / Ailsa Burns -- 24. Women's Studies in Australia / Susan Magarey, Lyndall Ryan and Susan Sheridan.

ISBN

0195535030 (pbk.)

LCCN

gb^94094939^

OCLC

• 30989404
• SCSB-11702564

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library