Transitions
New Australian feminisms
Published on 1. March 1995
256 pages
978-1-74269-700-0 (ISBN)
Description
Gender relations are in a period of transition. In this collection, some of Australia's leading writers and talented young scholars offer a systematic overview of the ways in which recent feminist analysis is shaping women's studies. They reflect on questions of power, difference, social structures, methodology and culture. They ask how feminism has changed in the past few years, and whether concepts like 'patriarchy' and 'oppression' are still relevant.
Contributors include: Ien Ang, Julie Ewington, Jill Matthews, Susan Sheridan, Sophie Watson and Anna Yeatman.
'All the liveliest feminist debates - postmodernist, deconstructionist, post-Marxist - are represented here. The scope is broad and the subject matter multidisciplinary. This book is new Australian feminism at its newest and best.' - Michele Barrett, Professor of Sociology, City University, London
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Language
English
Place of publication
Australia
Publishing group
Allen & Unwin
File size
1,58 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-74269-700-0 (9781742697000)
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03/1995
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Allen & Unwin
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Persons
BARBARA CAINE is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Women's Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Destined to be Wives and Victorian Feminists and co-editor of Crossing Boundaries. ROSEMARY PRINGLE is Professor of Women's Studies at Griffith University in Brisbane. She is the author of Secretaries Talk, co-author of Gender at Work and co-editor of Defining Women.
Content
ContributorsIntroductionBarbara Caine and Rosemary Pringle1Women's studies, feminist traditions and the problem of history2 Feminism and method 3Knowing women: The limits of feminist psychology4Interlocking oppressions5I'm a feminist but...'other' women and postnational feminism6Dancing modernity7Reading the Women's Weekly: Feminism, feminity and popular culture8Number magic: The trouble with women, art and representation9Keys to the musical body10Writing/Erotisism/Transgression: Gertrude Stein and the experience of the other11Of spanners and cyborgs: 'De-homogenising feminist thinking on technology12Reclaiming social policy13Beyond patriarchy and capitalism: Reflections on political subjectivity14Rethinking prostitution15Destabilising patriarchyNotesReferencesIndex
