Feminism in Australia

Individual Feminists on this Website:

Diane Bell

Elizabeth Grosz

Carole Pateman

Feminists on Other Websites:

Yasmine Gooneratne

Other Australian Feminists:

Internet Sites:

The Spinifex Press is Australia's leading independent feminist publishing house, and can be reached here.

"Refractory Girl," an Australian feminist quarterly, can be accessed here.

WIN (Women's International Network), based in Melbourne, can be reached here.

The Southern Women's Group, based in Bega (New South Wales), has a website here.

The "Australian Feminist Law Journal" is available by contacting Judith Grbich, Editor, Australian Feminist Law Journal, School of Law and Legal Studies, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, AUSTRALIA.

Introduction

This page contains information on feminism in Australia, including General Infromation, Aesthetics, and Politics.



Bibliography

General Information

Bell, Diane and Renate Klein, ed. Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed. Spinifex Press, 1996.

Blackmore, Jill. Troubling Women: Feminism, Leadership, and Educational Change. Open Univ. Press, 1998.

Caine, Barbara and Rosemary Pringle, eds. Transitions: New Australian Feminism. St Martins Press, 1995.

Grieve, Norma and Ailsa Burns, eds. Australian Women: Contemporary Feminist Thought. Oxford Univ. Press, 1994.

Grieve, Norma and Ailsa Burns. Australian Women: New Feminist Perspectives. 1986.

Hughes, Kate Pritchard, ed. Contemporary Australian Feminism. (out of print)

Kenway, Jane, ed. Answering Back: Girls, Boys, and Feminism in Schools. Routledge, 1998.

Kirby, Diane Elizabeth. Barmaids: A History of Women's Work in Pubs. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998.

Magaray, Susan, Sue Rowley, and Susan Sheridan, ed. Debutante Nation: Feminism Contests the 1890s. Paul and Co. Pub. Consortium, 1993.

Thompson, Janna L., ed. Women and Philosophy. 1986.

Thornton, Margaret, ed. Public and Private: Feminist Legal Debates. Oxford, 1996.



Aesthetics

Goldsworthy, Kerryn. Helen Garner. Oxford, 1997.

Kirby, Sandy. Sight Lines: Women's Art and Feminst Perspectives in Australia. Craftsman House, 1992.

Lever, Susan, ed. The Oxford Book of Australian Women's Verse. Oxford, 1996.

Lucas, Rosemary and Lyn McCredden, ed. Bridgings: Readings in Australian Women's Poetry. Oxford, 1997.

Moore, Catriona, ed. Dissonance: Feminism and the Arts, 1970-1990. Paul and Co. Pub. Consortium, 1994.

Moore, Catriona. Indecent Exposures: Twenty Years of Australian Feminist Photography. 1994.

Tait, Peta. Converging Realities: Feminism in Australian Theatre. Sydney: Currency Press, 1994.

Threadgold, Terry. Feminist Poetics: Poiesis, Performance, Histories. Routledge, 1997.

Topliss, Helen. Modernism and Feminism: Australian Women Artists, 1900-1940. Craftsman House, 1996.



Politics

Brennan, Deborah. The Politics of Australian Child Care: From Philanthropy to Feminism. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994.

Coleman, Verena. Adela Pankhurst: The Wayward Suffragette, 1885-1961. Melbourne Univ. Press, 1996.

Eisenstein, Hester. Inside Agitators: Australian Femocrats and the State. Temple Univ. Press, 1996.

Hoorn, Jeanette and David Goodman. Vox Reipublicae: Feminism and the Republic. 1996.

Paisley, Fiona. "Citizens of Their World: Australian Feminism and Indigenous Rights in the International Context, 1920s and 1930s." Feminist Review Vol. 58, pp. 66-84. [You can read a summary of this article here.]

Pateman, Carole. Politics (special political theory issue of the journal of the Australasian Political Studies Assoc.) , Vol. 18, No. 2 (1983).

Pateman, Carole and J. Goodnow, ed. Women, Social Science, and Public Policy. Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, 1985.

Pateman, Carole and M. Sawer, ed. Directory of Women Political Scientists in Australia. Australasian Political Studies Association, 1981.

Pettman, Jan. Living in the Margins: Racism, Sexism, and Feminism in Australia. Allen and Unwin, 1992.

Scutt, Jocelynne A. The Sexual Gerrymander: Women and the Economics of Power. Spinifex Press, 1994.

Watson, Sophie, ed. Playing the State: Australian Feminist Interventions. Verso Books, 1990.