Playing the state : Australian feminist interventions / edited by Sophie Watson
- Bib ID:
- 214464
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- London ; New York : Verso, 1990
- xi, 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0860912558
- 0860919706 (paperback)
- 0044421583 (paperback)
- Series:
- Questions for feminism.
- Summary:
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Essays focused on the implications of feminist intervention in systems of power. Chapter 4 entitled "Colonization and Decolonization: An Aboriginal Experience" by Barbara Flick pp. 61-66. Chapter 5 entitled "The Aboriginal Struggle in the Face of Terrorism" by Rose Wanganeen pp. 67-70.
- Full contents:
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- 1. The state of play: an introduction / Sophie Watson
- 2. Does feminism need a theory of "The State"? / Judith Allen
- 3. Ethnicity meets gender meets class in Australia / Mary Kalantzis
- 4. Colonization and decolonization: an aboriginal experience / Barbara Flick
- 5. The Aboriginal struggle in the face of terrorism / Rose Wanganeen
- 6. Feminism and the federal bureaucracy, 1972-1983 / Lyndall Ryan
- 7. Femocrats, official feminism and the uses of power / Hester Eisenstein
- 8. Government action against employment discrimination / Chris Ronalds
- 9. Women in trade unions in Australia / Anna Booth and Linda Rubenstein
- 10. Making industry work for women / Kim Windsor
- 11. Feminism and law reform: matrimonial property law and models of equality / Regina Graycar
- 12. Sex equality and the Australian body politic / Barbara Sullivan
- 13. Interpretation of a frontline state: Australian women's refuges and the State / Ludo McFerren
- 14. Encounters with the State: co-option and reform, a case study from women's health / Jocelyn Auer
- 15. Feminist cultural production: the Tampax mafia, an interview with Christ Westwood of the Belvoir Street Theatre / Sophie Watson
- 16. Fathers, brothers, mates: the fraternal state in Australia / Rosemary Pringle and Sophie Watson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Watson, Sophie
- Copyright:
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