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Being Australian: Narratives of National Identity (Chap. 3 "The Invisible Woman: Gender and Nation")
by Catriona Elder. 390 pgs.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

1: Imagining Nations

2: The Working Man Is Everywhere: Class and National Identity

3: The Invisible Woman: Gender and Nation

4: Populate or Perish: Sexuality and Nation

5: White Australia Meets Multiculturalism: Ethnicity and Nation

6: The Myth of Terra Nullius: Indigeneity and Nation

7: The Cultural Nation

8: The Heart of the Country: Place, Space and Land

9: The Land of the Long Weekend

10: Taking to the Streets: (Non) National Uses of Public Spaces

11: Backyards and Barracking: The Everyday in Australia

12: Australia on Display

Conclusion

Glossary

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Power, Profit, and Protest: Australian Social Movements and Globalisation (Chap. 3 "The Women's Movement")
by Verity Burgmann. 392 pgs.

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Mapping the development of social movements in the Australian political landscape--from feminism and Aboriginal rights to the new antiglobalization movement--this book argues that corporate globalization has threatened or transformed established social movements and sparked powerful new forms of social protest. The emergence of anticapitalist and anticorporate activism is analyzed, and the profound challenges posed by this newest of social movements to the state, to society in general, and to the labor movement in particular are outlined.

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Preface and Acknowledgments

1: Social Movements and Social Change

2: The Aboriginal Movement

3: The Women's Movement

4: The Green Movement

5: Anti-Capitalism and Anti-Corporate Globalisation

6: Globalisation: the Cancer Stage of Capitalism?

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Stepping out of Line: Becoming and Being Feminist (Chap. 2 "Feminist Movements: Past, Present, Local, and Global")
by Cheryl Hercus. 192 pgs.

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Cheryl Hercus offers a compelling new argument for why some women embrace feminism and why others do not. In doing so, she moves beyond the stereotypes of what feminism means while providing a new understanding of feminist social movements of resistance and collective action.

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Chapter 1: Developing a Model of Feminist Becoming and Being

Chapter 2: Feminist Movements:

Chapter 3: Becoming Feminist:

Chapter 4: Te Nsions and Contradictions in the Construction of Meaning and Identity

Chapter 5: Up Against It:

Chapter 6: Participation in Feminist Events and Organizations

Chapter 7: Establishing Feminist Presence in Daily Life

Chapter 8: Conclusion:

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Women and Nation in Australia: The Politics of Representation, in The Australian Journal of Politics and History
by Marilyn Lake. 12 pgs.

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Changing Characteristics of Women on Local Government Councils in Australia: 1982 - 1993, in Australian Journal of Social Issues
by Don Fletcher, Rosemary Whip. 19 pgs.

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Hard Heads, Soft Hearts: A New Reform Agenda for Australia (Chap. 8 "Work and Family")
by Peter Dawkins, Paul Kelly. 233 pgs.

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"A bold contemporary statement for an economic and social reform agenda, Hard Heads, Soft Hearts draws on contributions from a wide range of Australia's leading thinkers across academia, politics, the Public Service, business, unions and community groups. Edited by Paul Kelly, one of Australia's leading political and economic commentators, and Peter Dawkins, head of the Melbourne Institute"

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Part 1: Intorduction and Background

1: Hard Heads, Soft Hearts: Introduction

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2: Australia's Economic, Social and Environmental Performance: Stocktake and Outlook

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3: The Australian Economy: Past, Present and Future

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4: Globalisation: World Trade, Living Standards and Inequality

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Part 2: The New Reform Agenda

5: Unemployment, Joblessness and Welfare Reform

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6: Education and Innovation

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7: Population Policy

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8: Work and Family

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9: Ageing and Retirement

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10: Health Policy

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11: The Environment and the Kyoto Protocol

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12: Are We Becoming a Branch Office Economy? Taxation, Merger Law and Population Growth

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13: Microeconomic Reform

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Part 3: The Way Forward

14: The Way Forward: the Editors' View

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The Cambridge Handbook of the Social Sciences in Australia (Chap. 18 "Gender Politics" and Chap. 26 "Gender Perspectives")
by Ian Mcallister, Steve Dowrick, Riaz Hassan. 705 pgs.

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This high-quality reference on significant research in Australian social sciences is divided into three main sections: economics, sociology and political science. Each section examines the significant research in the field. The volume views the research within the context of broader debates about the social sciences and the ways in which more recent institutional changes have altered how they are defined, taught and researched.

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Introduction

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Part 1: Economics

Chapter 1: Privatisation

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Chapter 2: Competition Policy and Regulation

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Chapter 3: Economics and the Environment

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Chapter 4: Health Economics

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Chapter 5: Immigration

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Chapter 6: Labour Market and Industrial Relations

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Chapter 7: Income Distribution and Redistribution

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Chapter 8: Taxation

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Chapter 9: Innovation

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Chapter 10: International Trade and Industry Policies

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Chapter 11: The Macro Economy

Notes

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Chapter 12: Money and Banking

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Part 2: Political Science

Chapter 13: Political Theory

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Chapter 14: Federalism and the Constitution

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Chapter 15: Legislative Institutions

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Chapter 16: Political Parties and Electoral Behaviour

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Chapter 17: Electoral Systems

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Chapter 18: Gender Politics

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Chapter 19: Interest Groups and Social Movements

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Chapter 20: Environmental Policy and Politics

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Chapter 21: International Relations

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Chapter 22: Political Economy

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Chapter 23: Public Policy and Public Administration

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Part 3: Sociology

Chapter 24: Patterns of Social Inequality

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Chapter 25: Families and Households

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Chapter 26: Gender Perspectives

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Chapter 27: Work and Employment

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Chapter 28: Crime and Deviance

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Chapter 29: Health and Illness

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Chapter 30: Population

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Chapter 31: Race, Ethnicity and Immigration

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Chapter 32: Urban and Regional Sociology

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Chapter 33: Rural Sociology

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Chapter 34: Religion and Spirituality

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Chapter 35: Cultural Studies, Australian Studies and Cultural Sociology

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Chapter 36: Sociological Theory

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Chapter 37: Social Policy and Social Welfare

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Inequality in Australia (Chap. 4 "Gendered, Aged and Disabled Bodies")
by Alastair Greig, Frank Lewins, Kevin White. 306 pgs.

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Challenging traditional conceptions and providing a new critical perspective, the authors provide a comprehensive historical record of inequality in Australia, and show how that account no longer adequately explains the new and different forms of inequality. As Australian society has changed, they argue, new forms of inequality have emerged, influencing the country's experience of identity, embodiment and politics. The book presents a critical overview of contemporary inequality suitable for undergraduates.

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1: Introduction

Part 1: The Body Society and Inequality

2: Inequality and the Sociology of the Body

3: Sick Bodies and Inequality:Class, Mortality and Morbidity

4: Gendered, Aged and Disabled Bodies

Part 2: The Self, Society and Understandings of Inequality

5: Experiencing the Inequality of Social Resources

6: Experiencing the Inequality of Cultural Difference

7: Experiencing the Inequality of Life Choices

Part 3: Politics, Society and Inequality

8: Collective Identity, Politics and the Myth of Egalitarianism

9: Citizenship, Nation-Building and Political Struggles for Equality

10: The Contested Nature of Inequality in Contemporary Australia

11: Conclusion

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Women and Retirement Incomes in Australia: A Review, in Economic Record
by Therese Jefferson. 19 pgs.

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The Endgame for National Girls' Schooling Policies in Australia?, in Australian Journal of Education
by Jo Ailwood, Bob Lingard. 14 pgs.

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Writing Woman, Writing Place: Contemporary Australian and South African Fiction
by Sue Kossew. 204 pgs.

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Contemporary women writers in these two societies are still writing about similar issues as did earlier generations of women, such as exclusions from discourses of nation, a problematic relationship to place and belonging, relations with indigenous people and the way in which women's subjectivity has been constructed through national stereotypes and representations. This book describes and analyses some contemporary responses to 'writing woman, writing place' through close readings of particular texts that explore these issues. Three main strands run through the readings offered in Writing Woman, Writing Place - the theme of violence and the violence of representational practice itself, the revisioning of history, and the writers' consciousness of their own paradoxical subject-position within the nation as both privileged and excluded. Texts by established writers from both Australia and South Africa are examined in this context, including international prize-winning novelists Kate Grenville and Thea Astley from Australia and Nadine Gordimer from South Africa, as well as those by newly-emerging and younger writers. This book will be of essential interest to students and academics within the fields of Postcolonial Literature and Women's Writing.

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Introduction: Place, Space and Gender

Part 1

Introduction: Post-Bicentennial Perspectives

1: The Violence of Representation

2: Gone Bush

3: Another Country

4: Learning to Belong

Part 2

Introduction: New Subjectivities

5: A White Woman's Words

6: Rewriting the Farm Novel

7: Revisioning History

8: A State of Violence

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9: Exile and Belonging

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'Victors' and 'Victims'?: Men, Women, Modernism and Art in Australia, in Journal of Australian Studies
by Jane E. Hunt. 14 pgs.

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Black Body: Women, Colonialism, and Space
by Radhika Mohanram. 252 pgs.

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Mohanram develops in Black Body a theory of identity situated within space and place rather the the more familiar models of identity formation that emphasize time.

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Series Editor's Foreword

References

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: In Theory

1: The Cartography of Bodies

2: The Embodiment of Blackness

3: Woman-Body-Nation-Space

Part II: In the Antipodes

4: The Memory of Place: Maori Nationalism and Feminism in Aotearoa/New Zealand

5: Place in My Place: Embodiment, Aboriginality and Australia

6: Britannia's Daughters: Race, Place, and the Antipodean Home

Part III: In Conclusion

7: The Postcolonial Critic: Third World (con)texts/ First World Contexts

Conclusion

8: Coda: in Postcoloniality

Endnotes

Index

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