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Gender relations are in a period of transition. In this collection, some of Australia's leading writers and talented young scholars offer a systematic overview of the ways in which recent feminist analysis is shaping women's studies. They reflect on questions of power, difference, social structures, methodology and culture. They ask how feminism has changed in the past few years, and whether concepts like 'patriarchy' and 'oppression' are still relevant.
Contributors include: Ien Ang, Julie Ewington, Jill Matthews, Susan Sheridan, Sophie Watson and Anna Yeatman.
'All the liveliest feminist debates - postmodernist, deconstructionist, post-Marxist - are represented here. The scope is broad and the subject matter multidisciplinary. This book is new Australian feminism at its newest and best.' -
Michele Barrett, Professor of Sociology, City University, London
List of contents
Contributors
Introduction -
Barbara Caine and Rosemary Pringle1 Women's studies, feminist traditions and the problem of history -
Barbara Caine2 Feminism and method -
Catherine Waldby3 Knowing women: The limits of feminist psychology -
Elizabeth Wilson4 Interlocking oppressions -
Anna Yeatman5 I'm a feminist but... 'Other' women and postnational feminism -
Ien Ang6 Dancing modernity -
Jill Julius Matthews7 Reading the
Women's Weekly: Feminism, femininity and popular culture -
Susan Sheridan8 Number magic: The trouble with women, art and representation -
Julie Ewington9 Keys to the musical body -
Sally Macarthur10 Writing/Eroticism/Transgression: Gertrude Stein and the experience of the other -
Anna Gibbs11 Of spanners and cyborgs: 'De-homogenising' feminist thinking on technology -
Zoe Sofia12 Reclaiming social policy -
Sophie Watson13 Beyond patriarchy and capitalism: Reflections on political subjectivity -
J. K. Gibson-Graham14 Rethinking prostitution -
Barbara Sullivan15 Destabilising patriarchy -
Rosemary PringleNotes
References
Index
About the author
BARBARA CAINE is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Women's Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. She is the author of
Destined to be Wives and
Victorian Feminists and co-editor of
Crossing Boundaries. ROSEMARY PRINGLE is Professor of Women's Studies at Griffith University in Brisbane. She is the author of
Secretaries Talk, co-author of
Gender at Work and co-editor of
Defining Women.
Summary
Transitions provides an overview of new approaches to feminist analysis in Australia.
