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The politics of advantage

Pages 129-154 | Published online: 16 Sep 2010

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  • 1981 . ‘the infinitation of the negative’. See Nancy Jay, ‘Gender and Dichotomy’ . Feminist Studies , 7 ( 1 ) Spring Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1984, p. 43. Nancy Jay, on dichotomous thought, refers to a similar discursive practice —
  • Bryson , Lois . 1992 . Welfare and the State: Who Benefits? , London : Macmillan . shows a like‐minded concern with how upward flows of economic redistribution are obscured in social policy
  • Poiner , Gretchen and Wills , Sue . 1991 . The Gift Horse: A Critical Loot at Equal Employment Opportunity in Australia , Sydney : Allen & Unwin . chapter 6, for an account of the diverse range of ‘disadvantaging processes’ facing different groups of people
  • Foster , Victoria . ‘Different but Equal? Dilemmas in the Reform of Girls’ Education’ . Australian Journal of Education , 36 ( 1 ) for this delightful phrase
  • Mahoney , Kathleen . 1992 . ‘Gender Bias in Judicial Decisions’ . Lecture, Supreme Court of Western Australia, Perth , 15 August : 15
  • Mahoney . “ ‘Gender Bias in Judicial Decisions’ ” . 14
  • Broom , Dorothy . 1992 . ‘Adding Insult to Injury: The Discrimination Case against Women's Health Centres’ . Refractory Girl , Autumn The claim that women's health centres discriminated against males was originally brought to the Sex Discrimination Commissioner by Dr Alex Proudfoot and others in 1990, and dismissed on appeal in 1992. The case held repercussions for all Women's Health Centres in Australia. For a comprehensive account see
  • Haug , Frigga and Others . 1987 . Female Sexualization: A Collective Work of Memory , 191 London : Verso . Discourse ‘implies a practice both of speech and of action, of who speaks on a. particular object or event and when, where and how?’. See
  • Department of Employment, Education and Training . 1988 . Australian Women's Employment Strategy , Canberra : AGPS . For some of the many published examples of this, see
  • West Australian Ministry of Education . 1988 . Equal Opportunity in Employment, Report 2
  • Forbes , Ian . 1991 . “ ‘Equal Opportunity: Radical, Liberal and Conservative Critiques’ ” . In Equality Politcs and Gender , Edited by: Meehan , Elizabeth and Sevenhuijsen , Selma . London : Sage .
  • Poiner and Wills . 1991 . The Gift Horse
  • Cockburn , Cynthia . 1991 . In the Way of Women: Men's Resistance to Women in Organisations , London : MacMillan . for examples of how EEO officers describe their beleaguered situations and how they make their charters more acceptable
  • Industrial Relations Commission . 1991 . National Wage Case , April
  • Dowse , Sara . 1992 . ‘Equal Pay: The Rising Stakes’ . Inkwel , Emphasis added
  • Eduards , Maud . 1992 . “ ‘Against the Rules of the Game: On Importance of Women's Collective Actions’ ” . In Rethinking Change: Current Swedish Feminist Research , Edited by: Eduards , Maud L. 85 Uppsala : HSFR .
  • Henriques , J. , Hollway , W. , Venn , C. and Walkerdine , V. 1981 . Changing the Subject: Psychology, Social Relations and Subjectivity , London : Methuen .
  • Jay , Nancy . 1981 . ‘Gender and Dichotomy’ . Feminist Studies , 7 ( 1 ) Spring The relation between the two terms is not one of A and B, but one of A and not‐A
  • Patai , Daphne . 1983 . ‘Beyond Defensiveness: Feminist Research Strategies’ . Women's Studies International Forum , 6 ( 2 ) : 187
  • Gatens , Moira . 1991 . Feminism and Philosophy: Perspectives on Difference and Equality , 1 London : Polity Press .
  • Grosz , Elizabeth . 1989 . Sexual Subversions: Three French Feminists , xx Sydney : Allen & Unwin . for a definition of phallocentrism
  • Coward , Rosalind . 1984 . Female Desire , London : Paladin .
  • Okin , Susan Moller . 1980 . Women in Western Political Thought , Virago .
  • Spender , Dale . 1980 . Man‐Made Language , London : Routledge & Kegan Paul .
  • Black , M. and Coward , R. 1981 . ‘Linguistic, Social and Sexual Relations: A Review of Dale Spender's Man‐Made Language’ . Screen Education , : 85
  • Bacchi , Carol . 1990 . Same Difference: Feminism and Sexual Difference , Sydney : Allen & Unwin . Cynthia Cockburn's account of equal opportunity implementation. See In the Way of Women, 1991. The other books are
  • Burton , Clare . 1991 . The Promise and the Price , Sydney : Allen & Unwin .
  • Connell , R.W. 1987 . Gender and Power: Society, the Person and Sexual Politics , Cambridge : Polity Press .
  • Eisenstein , Hester . 1984 . Contemporary Feminist Thought , London : Unwin Paperbacks .
  • Eisenstein , Zillah . 1988 . The Female Body and the Law , Berkeley : University of California Press .
  • Gatens . 1991 . Feminism and Philosophy ,
  • Hearn , Jeff . 1990 . The Sexuality of Organisation , London : Sage .
  • Keohane , N.O. 1982 . Feminist Theory: A Critique of Ideology , Sussex : Harvester Press .
  • MacKinnon , Catharine A. 1989 . Toward a Feminist Theory of the State , Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press .
  • Pettman , Jan . 1992 . Living in the Margins: Racism, Sexism and Feminism in Australia , Allen & Unwin .
  • Poiner and Wills . 1991 . The Gift Horse
  • Eisenstein , Hester . 1991 . Gender Shock , Sydney : Allen & Unwin .
  • MacKinnon , Catharine A. 1986 . “ ‘Making Sex Equality Real’ ” . In Righting the Balance: Canada's New Equality Rights , Edited by: Smith , Lynn . 37 – 43 . Saskatoon : Canadian Human Rights Reporter Inc. .
  • 1987 . Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law , Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press .
  • Bacchi . Same Difference 266
  • Irigaray , Luce . 1991 . “ ‘The Power of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine’ ” . In The Irigaray Reader , Edited by: Whitford , Margaret . 124 Oxford : Basil Blackwell . emphasis in original
  • Eisenstein . The Female Body and the Law 1
  • Eisenstein . Female Body and the Law 2
  • Lloyd , Genevieve . 1984 . The Man of Reason: Male and Female in Western Philosophy , 105 London : Methuen .
  • Cockburn . 1991 . In the Way of Women , : 17 Condensed, these advantages include: men benefit by getting paid more to work less, their everyday needs are organised for them by women, and it is women who nurture men's dependents
  • Bacchi . 1990 . Same Difference , : 264
  • Wollstonecraft , Mary . 1967 . A Vindication of the Rights of Woman , New York : W.W. Norton & Co .
  • Eisenstein , Hester . 1991 . ‘Speaking for Women? Voices from the Australian Femocrat Experiment’ . Australian Feminist Studies , Summer : 29 – 43 . For a recent account of the strategic and institutional constraints on Australian femocrats see
  • Mill , John Stuart . 1985 . The Subjection of Women , 243 London : Dent .
  • Bussemaker , Jet . “ ‘Equality, Autonomy and Feminist Politics’ ” . In Equality Politics and Gender Edited by: Meehan and Sevenhuijsen . 60
  • Booth , Michael and Eveline , Joan . ‘Gadamer and Kiibler‐Ross: Hermeneutical Reflection and the Process of Grieving’ . Proceedings of the Australasian Association for Phenomenology and Social Philosophy Conference . September 1990 , Victoria. Melbourne University . For an exception see Wendy Fatin, ‘Looking Back — Moving Forwards’, Women's Electoral Lobby National Conference, Canberra, January 1992. Fatin refers to the problem of coping with changes that a shift to a much‐needed feminist paradigm will bring. She suggests that we ‘might apply a Kübler‐Ross style analysis to the process of paradigm shifts’. For an interrogation of the latter
  • Bumiller , Kristin . 1988 . The Civil Rights Society: The Social Construction of Victims , Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press . for an account of how recipients of anti‐discrimination regulations are constituted as victims
  • Sawer , Marian . 1990 . Sisters in Suits , Sydney : Allen & Unwin . WEL policies have been strongly influenced by liberal feminist ideals, see
  • Harding , Sandra . 1986 . ‘The Instability of the Analytical Categories of Feminist Theory’ . Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society , 11 ( 4 ) : 648 who argues that contemporary social life is ‘in exuberant transformation’. In such an unstable and incoherent world feminists need to ‘embrace the instability’ of the categories we formulate and work with
  • Stimpson , Catharine . 1986 . ‘The Idea of Women's Studies, the Ideas of Women's Studies: An Assessment’ . Humanities Research Conference on Feminist Inquiry as a Transdisciplinary Enterprise . August 1986 , Adelaide.
  • Flax , Jane . 1990 . Thinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Postmodernism in the Contemporary West , 21 Berkeley : University of California Press . who states that for feminist theories and practices, ‘one of the greatest difficulties is to make the familiar seem strange and in need of explanation’
  • Curthoys , Ann . 1992 . “ ‘Doing It For Themselves: The Women's Movement Since 1970’ ” . In Gender Relations in Australia: Domination and Negotiation , Edited by: Saunders , Kay and Evans , Raymond . 441 Sydney : Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich . claims that the strength of the Australian women's movement inheres in its increasing diversity; the conflicts between feminist theories and politics are essential for its vitality
  • Lundgren , Eva . “ ‘The Hand that Strikes and Comforts: Gender Construction in the Field of Tension Encompassing Body and Symbol, Stability and Change’ ” . In Rethinking Change Edited by: Eduards . 131
  • Sweden , Statistics . 1990 . Women and Men in Sweden: Equality of the Sexes , Stockholm : SCB . For instance, despite national funding for its umbrella organisation, the network of women's refuges receives no federal government support and most centres are serviced by volunteers, 10,000 of them at last count. Information from interview conducted with Ebon Krâm, Chair, ROKS Central Office, Stockholm on 6 November 1991. Part of the support comes from the high rate of female politicians (38 per cent, the world's highest)
  • Ryan , Lyndall . 1990 . “ ‘Feminism and the Federal Bureaucracy 1972–1983’ ” . In Playing the State: Australian Feminist Interventions , Edited by: Watson , Sophie . Sydney : Allen & Unwin .
  • Dowse , Sara and Cass , Bettina . 1983 . “ ‘The Women's Movement's Fandango with the State’ ” . In Women, Welfare and the State , Edited by: Baldock , Cora . Sydney : George Allen & Unwin .
  • Linner , Birgitta . 1967 . Sex and Society in Sweden , New York : Pantheon .
  • Bacchi , Carol . 1991 . “ The Equality Myth: Gender Relations in Sweden’ ” . 18 unpublished
  • Eyerman , Ron . 1984 . ‘Social Movements and Social Theory’ . Sociology , 18 ( 1 )
  • Eduards , Maud . 1991 . ‘The Swedish Gender Model: Productivity, Pragmatism and Paternalism’ . Weh European Politics , 14 ( 3 ) July
  • 23 November 1989 . Utdrag ür Protokoll vid regeringsammantrade , 23 November , Stockholm, , Sweden : Civildepartementet .
  • Eduards . “ ‘The Swedish Gender Model’ ” . 178
  • Eduards . “ ‘The Swedish Gender Model’ ” . 178
  • 1990/91 . Olika På Lika Villkor , : 113
  • Eduards . “ ‘The Swedish Gender Model’ ” . 178
  • Patai . “ ‘Beyond Defensiveness’ ” . 183
  • Dowse , Sara . “ ‘Equal Pay’ ” . 5

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