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What's a Wog Girl like me doing in a place like this?

Pages 90-99 | Published online: 07 Jan 2015

  • Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, Penguin Books, 1967 pp 79, 121.
  • These are some exclusive private schools in Melbourne.
  • See, eg, the collection of essays in Lydia Sargent (ed), Women and Revolution: A Discussion of the Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism, Boston: South End Press, 1981.
  • Don't squirm—in the early eighties most of us had not yet read the poststructuralist work critiquing unitary theories and meta-narratives.
  • Eg Michele Barrett and Mary McIntosh, The Anti-social Family, London: Verso, 1982.
  • The book is, however, also intended for a generalist audience.
  • I would use a Petrocelli episode if I could find a video copy of it.
  • This refers to students who have entered the Law School via the University's Special Entry Scheme (now called Targeted Access Scheme). The scheme aims, in part, to facilitate entry to courses by students from groups that are under-represented at Melbourne University
  • 'Student Diversity in the Law School: The Impact of Language, Socio-Economic and Cultural Background on Students' Experience in the Law School’ (1996) Law School, University of Melbourne.
  • Lisa Sarmas, ‘A Step in the Wrong Direction: The Emergence of Gender “Neutrality” in the Equitable Presumption of Advancement’ (1994) 19 Melbourne University Law Review 758.
  • Lisa Sarmas, ‘Storytelling and the Law: A Case Study of Louth v Diprose’ (1994) 19 Melbourne University Law Review 701.
  • Peter Heerey, ‘Truth, Lies and Stereotype: Stories of Mary and Louis’ (1997) 1 Newcastle Law Review 1; Lisa Sarmas, ‘A Response to Justice Peter Heerey’ (1998) 3 Newcastle Law Review 82. See also, the comments of Justice P W Young in (1999) 73 Australian Law Journal 312.
  • ‘Intersectionality’ refers to the notion that a person may suffer disadvantage as a result of a number of factors, for example, race and sex or race and sexuality. The existing literature and my own research suggests that such ‘intersectional’ disadvantage requires close examination and further theorisation, and that current anti-discrimination regimes are ill-equipped to deal with it. See, eg Kimberle Crenshaw, ‘Demarginalising the Intersection of Race and Sex’ in Katherine Bartlett and Rosanne Kennedy (eds), Feminist Legal Theory: Readings in Law and Gender, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1991; Nitya Duclos, ‘Disappearing Women: Racial Minority Women in Human Rights Cases’ (1993) 6 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 25.
  • Cited in a National Union of Students Women s Department sticker, which I keep on my office door for inspiration.
  • Alan Sinfield, Cultural Politics: Queer Reading, London: Routledge, 1994, at 37.
  • Gayatri Spivak, ‘The Rani of Sirmur: An Essay in Reading the Archives’ (1985) History and Theory 247 at 270.

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