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Thematic articles: The body of politic

Who are you, really? Feminism and the female politician

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Notes

  • Mitchell , Susan . 1996 . The Scent of Power: On the Trail of Women and Power in Australian Politics , 145 – 6 . Sydney and Melbourne : Angus & Robertson .
  • Mitchell . The Scent of Power 235 for details on this and for figures on Lawrence's popularity rating
  • Bomford , Janette . 1996 . “ ‘The Lady Politician’ ” . In A Woman's Constitution: Gender and History in the Australian Commonwealth , Edited by: Irving , H. 63 Sydney : Hale & Iremonger .
  • Magarey , Susan . 1985 . Unbridling the Tongues of Women: A Biography of Catherine Helen Spence , 184 Sydney : Hale & Iremonger .
  • Oldfield , Audrey . 1992 . Woman Suffrage in Australia: Gift or Struggle? , 41 126 200 – 1 . Melbourne : Cambridge University Press .
  • Sawer , Marian and Simms , Marian . 1993 . A Woman's Place: Women and Politics in Australia , Sydney : Allen & Unwin . Women had the right to stand in South Australia in 1894 but gained no seat in state parliament until 1959
  • Haines , Janine . 1992 . Suffrage to Sufferance: 100 Years of Women in Politics , 94 Sydney : Allen & Unwin .
  • 10 July 1903 . Australian Woman's Sphere 10 July , 322
  • Bomford . “ ‘The Lady Politician’ ” . 63 – 4 .
  • 31 March 1921 . “ ‘The New “House"‐Wife‘ ” . In Bulletin 31 March ,
  • Cowan , Peter . 1978 . A Unique Position: A Biography of Edith Dirchey Cowan 1861–1932 , 236 – 43 . Perth : University of Western Australia Press . Cowan's vote for the Health Act Amendment Bill of 1922 seemed to another prominent feminist, Bessie Rischbieth, to expose women too readily to medical examination
  • Pringle , Rosemary and Watson , Sophie . 1992 . “ ‘"Women's Interests” and the Post‐structuralist State’ ” . In Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates , Edited by: Barrett , M. and Phillips , A. 57 London : Polity .
  • Bulbeck , Chilla . 1993 . “ ‘Republicanism and Post‐nationalism’ ” . In The Republicanism Debate , Edited by: Hudson , W. and Carter , D. Kensington, NSW : New South Wales University Press .
  • Irving , Helen . 1993 . ‘Boy's Own Republic’ . Arena Magazine , December
  • Lake , Marilyn . 1996 . ‘Let Men Share the Power’ . Australian , 13 August : 11
  • Sawer , Marian . 1992 . “ ‘Housekeeping the State: Women and Parliamentary Politics in Australia’ ” . In Trust the Women: Women in Federal Parliament , Papers on Parliament, no. 17 Canberra : Department of the Senate .
  • 1990 . Australian , 8 February The ‘heat’ came particularly from the accusations that the two previous Labor premiers had acted improperly in their many dealings with business, an accusation condensed into ‘WA Inc.’
  • 1990 . Women's Electoral Lobby . WEL Broadsheet , December
  • 1991 . Women's Electoral Lobby . WEL Broadsheet , February WEL's state Conference three months later targeted decision makers in senior government ministries rather than Lawrence
  • 1923 . West Australian , 24 December
  • Eisenstein , Hester . 1996 . Inside Agitators: Australian Femocrats and the State , St Leonards, NSW : (Allen & Unwin) .
  • Magarey . Unbridling the Tongues of Women 181
  • Mitchell . The Scent of Power 134
  • Kingston , Margo . The Scent of Power 128 – 9 .
  • 1995 . West Australian , 15 November : 1
  • Mitchell . The Scent of Power 180 188 191 209 227 for the above judgments
  • Quekett , Malcolm . 1995 . ‘Support blow for Lawrence in voter poll’ . West Australian , 1 September Poll conducted on 28 and 29 August 1995
  • Markey , Randal . 1995 . ‘Evans queries QC link to Opposition’ . West Australian , 30 August : 4
  • 1995 . West Australian , 15 November : 1 There is a particular irony in that Lawrence's Ph.D. dissertation in psychology was entitled ‘Infant Crying and Maternal Responsiveness’
  • Markey , Randal . 1995 . ‘Lawrence Gets Her Chance: PM’ . West Australian , 12 September : 4
  • Markey , Randal . 1995 . ‘Day‐to‐day Battle for Fighter’ . West Australian , 23 August : 4
  • Nicholson , Brendan . 1995 . Just Slips of Memory’ . West Australian , 15 September : 6
  • 1995 . West Australian , 15 ( 16 ) 17 November
  • Mitchell . The Scent of Power 145
  • 1995 . West Australian , 12 September : 2
  • Steadman , Margaret and Radi , Heather , eds. 1988 . 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology , 183 – 4 . Marrickville, NSW : Women's Redress Press . For May Holman see entry by
  • Magarey , Susan . 1995 . ‘Looking at the World through Women's Eyes: One Experience of the NGO Forum on Women. Beijing, 30 August‐8 September 1995’ . Australian Feminist Studies , : 149
  • Haraway , D. 1988 . ‘Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective’ . Feminist Studies , 14 ( 3 ) : 575 – 99 .
  • Phelan , Shane . 1994 . ‘Coyote Polities’ . paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association . September 1–4 1994 . The New York Hilton . also uses the trickster metaphor. Phelan's coyote is a being in the world. We prefer Haraway's portrayal of a relationship to the world
  • Phillips , Anne . 1993 . Democracy and Difference , Cambridge : Polity .
  • Mitchell . The Scent of Power 138
  • Voet , Rian . 1994 . ‘Women as Citizens: A Feminist Debate’ . Australian Feminist Studies , : 61 – 78 . 73
  • Phillips , Anne . 1991 . “ ‘Citizenship and Feminist Theory’ ” . In Citizenship , Edited by: Andrews , Geoff . 76 – 91 . London : Lawrence Wishart .

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