The Politics of Passion: Sex and Race in the New Australian Body Politic

Australian Feminist Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 25, 1997, Pages 29-42

  Magarey, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

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EID: 0031523330     PISSN: 08164649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08164649.1997.9994839     Document Type: Review

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1. Helen Irving, 'Boy's Own Republic' and Ann Curthoys, 'Single White Male' both in Arena Magazine, no. 8, December/January 1993/4; Marilyn Lake, 'A Republic for Women?', Arena Magazine, no. 9, February/ March 1994; Cheryl Saunders, 'Women in a Convention in the 1990s' in Helen Irving (ed.), A Woman's Constitution? Gender & History in the Australian Commonwealth (Hale & Iremonger) Marrickville, NSW, 1996; Jeanette Hoorn and David Goodman (eds), Vox Reipublicae: Feminism and the Republic (La Trobe University Press) Bundoora, 1996 (A special edition of the Journal of Australian Studies, no. 47).
2. Helen Irving, 'Boy's Own Republic' and Ann Curthoys, 'Single White Male' both in Arena Magazine, no. 8, December/January 1993/4; Marilyn Lake, 'A Republic for Women?', Arena Magazine, no. 9, February/ March 1994; Cheryl Saunders, 'Women in a Convention in the 1990s' in Helen Irving (ed.), A Woman's Constitution? Gender & History in the Australian Commonwealth (Hale & Iremonger) Marrickville, NSW, 1996; Jeanette Hoorn and David Goodman (eds), Vox Reipublicae: Feminism and the Republic (La Trobe University Press) Bundoora, 1996 (A special edition of the Journal of Australian Studies, no. 47).
3. Helen Irving, 'Boy's Own Republic' and Ann Curthoys, 'Single White Male' both in Arena Magazine, no. 8, December/January 1993/4; Marilyn Lake, 'A Republic for Women?', Arena Magazine, no. 9, February/ March 1994; Cheryl Saunders, 'Women in a Convention in the 1990s' in Helen Irving (ed.), A Woman's Constitution? Gender & History in the Australian Commonwealth (Hale & Iremonger) Marrickville, NSW, 1996; Jeanette Hoorn and David Goodman (eds), Vox Reipublicae: Feminism and the Republic (La Trobe University Press) Bundoora, 1996 (A special edition of the Journal of Australian Studies, no. 47).
4. Helen Irving, 'Boy's Own Republic' and Ann Curthoys, 'Single White Male' both in Arena Magazine, no. 8, December/January 1993/4; Marilyn Lake, 'A Republic for Women?', Arena Magazine, no. 9, February/ March 1994; Cheryl Saunders, 'Women in a Convention in the 1990s' in Helen Irving (ed.), A Woman's Constitution? Gender & History in the Australian Commonwealth (Hale & Iremonger) Marrickville, NSW, 1996; Jeanette Hoorn and David Goodman (eds), Vox Reipublicae: Feminism and the Republic (La Trobe University Press) Bundoora, 1996 (A special edition of the Journal of Australian Studies, no. 47).
5. Carole Pateman, 'The Patriarchal Welfare State' in Carole Pateman, The Disorder of Women: Democracy, Feminism and Political Theory (Polity Press) Cambridge, 1989, especially pp. 188-95. For the 'decommodification' of women's labour, see Bettina Cass, 'Gender in Australia's Restructuring Labour Market and Welfare State' and Lois Bryson, 'Two Welfare States: One for Women, One for Men' in Anne Edwards and Susan Magarey (eds), Women in a Restructuring Australia: Work and Welfare (Allen & Unwin in association with the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia) St Leonards, NSW, 1995. This argument is indebted to, but is also different from, those of two friends and colleagues: Marilyn Lake, 'A Revolution in the Family: The Challenge and Contradictions of Maternal Citizenship in Australia' in Seth Koven and Sonya Michel (eds), Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States (Routledge) London, 1993; Patricia Grimshaw, 'A White Women's Suffrage' in Irving (ed.), A Woman's Constitution? Lake's argument assumes a direct continuity between the campaigns of suffrage-era feminists and the maternal citizenship enshrined during the second decade of the twentieth century and after; mine seeks to show quite a sharp break between the two. Grimshaw's concern is to explain the racism of first-wave feminists whereas mine is to show its implications for the erosion of one of the principal gains for women won by those feminists. My argument is also indebted to the articles by Mary Spongberg and Vera Mackie in this issue of AFS.
6. Carole Pateman, 'The Patriarchal Welfare State' in Carole Pateman, The Disorder of Women: Democracy, Feminism and Political Theory (Polity Press) Cambridge, 1989, especially pp. 188-95. For the 'decommodification' of women's labour, see Bettina Cass, 'Gender in Australia's Restructuring Labour Market and Welfare State' and Lois Bryson, 'Two Welfare States: One for Women, One for Men' in Anne Edwards and Susan Magarey (eds), Women in a Restructuring Australia: Work and Welfare (Allen & Unwin in association with the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia) St Leonards, NSW, 1995. This argument is indebted to, but is also different from, those of two friends and colleagues: Marilyn Lake, 'A Revolution in the Family: The Challenge and Contradictions of Maternal Citizenship in Australia' in Seth Koven and Sonya Michel (eds), Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States (Routledge) London, 1993; Patricia Grimshaw, 'A White Women's Suffrage' in Irving (ed.), A Woman's Constitution? Lake's argument assumes a direct continuity between the campaigns of suffrage-era feminists and the maternal citizenship enshrined during the second decade of the twentieth century and after; mine seeks to show quite a sharp break between the two. Grimshaw's concern is to explain the racism of first-wave feminists whereas mine is to show its implications for the erosion of one of the principal gains for women won by those feminists. My argument is also indebted to the articles by Mary Spongberg and Vera Mackie in this issue of AFS.
7. Carole Pateman, 'The Patriarchal Welfare State' in Carole Pateman, The Disorder of Women: Democracy, Feminism and Political Theory (Polity Press) Cambridge, 1989, especially pp. 188-95. For the 'decommodification' of women's labour, see Bettina Cass, 'Gender in Australia's Restructuring Labour Market and Welfare State' and Lois Bryson, 'Two Welfare States: One for Women, One for Men' in Anne Edwards and Susan Magarey (eds), Women in a Restructuring Australia: Work and Welfare (Allen & Unwin in association with the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia) St Leonards, NSW, 1995. This argument is indebted to, but is also different from, those of two friends and colleagues: Marilyn Lake, 'A Revolution in the Family: The Challenge and Contradictions of Maternal Citizenship in Australia' in Seth Koven and Sonya Michel (eds), Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States (Routledge) London, 1993; Patricia Grimshaw, 'A White Women's Suffrage' in Irving (ed.), A Woman's Constitution? Lake's argument assumes a direct continuity between the campaigns of suffrage-era feminists and the maternal citizenship enshrined during the second decade of the twentieth century and after; mine seeks to show quite a sharp break between the two. Grimshaw's concern is to explain the racism of first-wave feminists whereas mine is to show its implications for the erosion of one of the principal gains for women won by those feminists. My argument is also indebted to the articles by Mary Spongberg and Vera Mackie in this issue of AFS.
8. Carole Pateman, 'The Patriarchal Welfare State' in Carole Pateman, The Disorder of Women: Democracy, Feminism and Political Theory (Polity Press) Cambridge, 1989, especially pp. 188-95. For the 'decommodification' of women's labour, see Bettina Cass, 'Gender in Australia's Restructuring Labour Market and Welfare State' and Lois Bryson, 'Two Welfare States: One for Women, One for Men' in Anne Edwards and Susan Magarey (eds), Women in a Restructuring Australia: Work and Welfare (Allen & Unwin in association with the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia) St Leonards, NSW, 1995. This argument is indebted to, but is also different from, those of two friends and colleagues: Marilyn Lake, 'A Revolution in the Family: The Challenge and Contradictions of Maternal Citizenship in Australia' in Seth Koven and Sonya Michel (eds), Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States (Routledge) London, 1993; Patricia Grimshaw, 'A White Women's Suffrage' in Irving (ed.), A Woman's Constitution? Lake's argument assumes a direct continuity between the campaigns of suffrage-era feminists and the maternal citizenship enshrined during the second decade of the twentieth century and after; mine seeks to show quite a sharp break between the two. Grimshaw's concern is to explain the racism of first-wave feminists whereas mine is to show its implications for the erosion of one of the principal gains for women won by those feminists. My argument is also indebted to the articles by Mary Spongberg and Vera Mackie in this issue of AFS.
9. Carole Pateman, 'The Patriarchal Welfare State' in Carole Pateman, The Disorder of Women: Democracy, Feminism and Political Theory (Polity Press) Cambridge, 1989, especially pp. 188-95. For the 'decommodification' of women's labour, see Bettina Cass, 'Gender in Australia's Restructuring Labour Market and Welfare State' and Lois Bryson, 'Two Welfare States: One for Women, One for Men' in Anne Edwards and Susan Magarey (eds), Women in a Restructuring Australia: Work and Welfare (Allen & Unwin in association with the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia) St Leonards, NSW, 1995. This argument is indebted to, but is also different from, those of two friends and colleagues: Marilyn Lake, 'A Revolution in the Family: The Challenge and Contradictions of Maternal Citizenship in Australia' in Seth Koven and Sonya Michel (eds), Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States (Routledge) London, 1993; Patricia Grimshaw, 'A White Women's Suffrage' in Irving (ed.), A Woman's Constitution? Lake's argument assumes a direct continuity between the campaigns of suffrage-era feminists and the maternal citizenship enshrined during the second decade of the twentieth century and after; mine seeks to show quite a sharp break between the two. Grimshaw's concern is to explain the racism of first-wave feminists whereas mine is to show its implications for the erosion of one of the principal gains for women won by those feminists. My argument is also indebted to the articles by Mary Spongberg and Vera Mackie in this issue of AFS.
10. William Lane, The Workingman's Paradise: An Australian Labour Novel, by 'John Miller', first pub. 1892, facsimile edition (Sydney University Press), Sydney, 1980, pp. 156-7, 158, 160-1 (subsequent page references given in the text).
11. Beverley Kingston, Glad, Confident Morning: The Oxford History of Australia Volume 3 (Oxford University Press) Melbourne, 1988, p. 236; Katie Spearritt, 'New Dawns: First Wave Feminism 1880-1914' in Kay Saunders and Raymond Evans (eds), Gender Relations in Australia: Domination and Negotiation (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) Marrickville, NSW, 1992, p. 328; Susan Magarey, 'Sexual Labour: Australia 1880-1910' in Susan Magarey, Sue Rowley and Susan Sheridan (eds), Debutante Nation: Feminism Contests the 1890s (Allen & Unwin) St Leonards, NSW, 1993.
12. Beverley Kingston, Glad, Confident Morning: The Oxford History of Australia Volume 3 (Oxford University Press) Melbourne, 1988, p. 236; Katie Spearritt, 'New Dawns: First Wave Feminism 1880-1914' in Kay Saunders and Raymond Evans (eds), Gender Relations in Australia: Domination and Negotiation (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) Marrickville, NSW, 1992, p. 328; Susan Magarey, 'Sexual Labour: Australia 1880-1910' in Susan Magarey, Sue Rowley and Susan Sheridan (eds), Debutante Nation: Feminism Contests the 1890s (Allen & Unwin) St Leonards, NSW, 1993.
13. Beverley Kingston, Glad, Confident Morning: The Oxford History of Australia Volume 3 (Oxford University Press) Melbourne, 1988, p. 236; Katie Spearritt, 'New Dawns: First Wave Feminism 1880-1914' in Kay Saunders and Raymond Evans (eds), Gender Relations in Australia: Domination and Negotiation (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) Marrickville, NSW, 1992, p. 328; Susan Magarey, 'Sexual Labour: Australia 1880-1910' in Susan Magarey, Sue Rowley and Susan Sheridan (eds), Debutante Nation: Feminism Contests the 1890s (Allen & Unwin) St Leonards, NSW, 1993.
14. Peter F. McDonald, Marriage in Australia: Age at First Marriage and Proportions Marying, 1860-1971 (ANU Press) Canberra, 1974, p. 134 (Gordon A. Carmichael, With This Ring: First Marriage Patterns, Trends and Prospects in Australia (ANU Press) Canberra, 1988, simply summarises McDonald on this period); J.C, Caldwell and L.T. Ruzicka, 'The Australian Fertility Transition: An Analysis', Population and Development Review, vol. 14, no. 1, 1978, p. 87.
15. Peter F. McDonald, Marriage in Australia: Age at First Marriage and Proportions Marying, 1860-1971 (ANU Press) Canberra, 1974, p. 134 (Gordon A. Carmichael, With This Ring: First Marriage Patterns, Trends and Prospects in Australia (ANU Press) Canberra, 1988, simply summarises McDonald on this period); J.C, Caldwell and L.T. Ruzicka, 'The Australian Fertility Transition: An Analysis', Population and Development Review, vol. 14, no. 1, 1978, p. 87.
16. Peter F. McDonald, Marriage in Australia: Age at First Marriage and Proportions Marying, 1860-1971 (ANU Press) Canberra, 1974, p. 134 (Gordon A. Carmichael, With This Ring: First Marriage Patterns, Trends and Prospects in Australia (ANU Press) Canberra, 1988, simply summarises McDonald on this period); J.C, Caldwell and L.T. Ruzicka, 'The Australian Fertility Transition: An Analysis', Population and Development Review, vol. 14, no. 1, 1978, p. 87.
17. Mrs H.A. Dugdale, A Few Hours in a Far-Off Age (McCarron, Bird & Co) Melbourne, 1883; Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career, first pub. 1901 (Arkon paperback edition) Sydney, 1979.
18. Mrs H.A. Dugdale, A Few Hours in a Far-Off Age (McCarron, Bird & Co) Melbourne, 1883; Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career, first pub. 1901 (Arkon paperback edition) Sydney, 1979.
19. Patricia Grimshaw, Marilyn Lake, Ann McGrath and Marian Quartly, Creating A Nation (McPhee Gribble) Ringwood, 1994, p. 185.
20. South Australia Parliamentary Debates [SAPD], 22 July 1885, c.319. See also Susan Magarey, Unbridling the Tongues of Women: a Biography of Catherine Helen Spence (Hale & Iremonger) Sydney, 1985, chapter 8; Helen Jones, In Her Own Name: Women in South Australian History (Wakefield Press) Netley, 1986, chapter 4; Audrey Oldfield, Woman Suffrage in Australia: A Gift or a Struggle? (Cambridge University Press) Melbourne, 1992, chapter 2.
21. South Australia Parliamentary Debates [SAPD], 22 July 1885, c.319. See also Susan Magarey, Unbridling the Tongues of Women: a Biography of Catherine Helen Spence (Hale & Iremonger) Sydney, 1985, chapter 8; Helen Jones, In Her Own Name: Women in South Australian History (Wakefield Press) Netley, 1986, chapter 4; Audrey Oldfield, Woman Suffrage in Australia: A Gift or a Struggle? (Cambridge University Press) Melbourne, 1992, chapter 2.
22. South Australia Parliamentary Debates [SAPD], 22 July 1885, c.319. See also Susan Magarey, Unbridling the Tongues of Women: a Biography of Catherine Helen Spence (Hale & Iremonger) Sydney, 1985, chapter 8; Helen Jones, In Her Own Name: Women in South Australian History (Wakefield Press) Netley, 1986, chapter 4; Audrey Oldfield, Woman Suffrage in Australia: A Gift or a Struggle? (Cambridge University Press) Melbourne, 1992, chapter 2.
23. Jones, In Her Own Name, pp. 83, 86, 96-7, 106-14; Oldfield, Woman Suffrage in Australia, pp. 24-5, 30-9.
24. Jones, In Her Own Name, pp. 83, 86, 96-7, 106-14; Oldfield, Woman Suffrage in Australia, pp. 24-5, 30-9.
25. Oldfield, Woman Suffrage in Australia, pp. 36, 38.
26. Susan Magarey, 'Sex vs Citizenship: Votes for Women in South Australia', Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, no. 21, 1993, pp. 87-90.
27. Adelaide Observer, 22 December 1894.
28. Pat Stretton and Christine Finnimore, 'Black Fellow Citizens: Aborigines and the Commonwealth Franchise', Australian Historical Studies, vol. 25, no. 101, October 1993.
29. Bulletin, 18 June 1996, p. 31.
30. Official Report of the National Australasian Convention Debates, Adelaide, 22 March to 5 May 1897 (Government Printer) Adelaide, 1897, p. 715 (subsequent page-references given in the text).
31. Oldfield, Woman Suffrage in Australia, p. 62, identifies this speaker as Frederick Holder.
32. E.g., Commonwealth of Australia, Parliamentary Debates, vol. 9, 1902; O'Cnnor, cc.11452, 11454; O'Keefe, c.11470; Gould, c.11476; Barrett, c.11483; Staniforth Smith, c.11485.
33. Op. cit., c.11485.
34. Op. cit., cc.11369 (3 April 1902)-11984 (24 April 1902).
35. See also Grimshaw, 'A White Woman's Suffrage' in Irving (ed.), A Woman's Constitution?
36. Magarey, Unbridling the Tongues of Women; Judith Allen, Rose Scott: Vision and Revision in Feminism (Oxford University Press) Melbourne, 1994; Diane Kirkby, Alice Henry: The Power of Pen and Voice The Life of an Australian-American Labor Reformer (Cambridge University Press) Melbourne, 1991; Janette M. Bomford, That Dangerous and Persuasive Woman: Vida Goldstein (Melbourne University Press) Carlton, Victoria, 1993.
37. Magarey, Unbridling the Tongues of Women; Judith Allen, Rose Scott: Vision and Revision in Feminism (Oxford University Press) Melbourne, 1994; Diane Kirkby, Alice Henry: The Power of Pen and Voice The Life of an Australian-American Labor Reformer (Cambridge University Press) Melbourne, 1991; Janette M. Bomford, That Dangerous and Persuasive Woman: Vida Goldstein (Melbourne University Press) Carlton, Victoria, 1993.
38. Magarey, Unbridling the Tongues of Women; Judith Allen, Rose Scott: Vision and Revision in Feminism (Oxford University Press) Melbourne, 1994; Diane Kirkby, Alice Henry: The Power of Pen and Voice The Life of an Australian-American Labor Reformer (Cambridge University Press) Melbourne, 1991; Janette M. Bomford, That Dangerous and Persuasive Woman: Vida Goldstein (Melbourne University Press) Carlton, Victoria, 1993.
39. Magarey, Unbridling the Tongues of Women; Judith Allen, Rose Scott: Vision and Revision in Feminism (Oxford University Press) Melbourne, 1994; Diane Kirkby, Alice Henry: The Power of Pen and Voice The Life of an Australian-American Labor Reformer (Cambridge University Press) Melbourne, 1991; Janette M. Bomford, That Dangerous and Persuasive Woman: Vida Goldstein (Melbourne University Press) Carlton, Victoria, 1993.
40. Marjorie Barnard, Miles Franklin (Hill of Content) Melbourne, p. 50 quotes the Literary Editor of the Bulletin, A.G. Stephens making this assumption; Verna Coleman, Miles Franklin in America: Her Unknown (Brilliant) Career (Angus & Robertson) London, Sydney, Melbourne, 1981, pp. 34-6; Scott Family Papers, Mitchell Library, MSS 364/8; Reel no.CY 1101.
41. Marjorie Barnard, Miles Franklin (Hill of Content) Melbourne, p. 50 quotes the Literary Editor of the Bulletin, A.G. Stephens making this assumption; Verna Coleman, Miles Franklin in America: Her Unknown (Brilliant) Career (Angus & Robertson) London, Sydney, Melbourne, 1981, pp. 34-6; Scott Family Papers, Mitchell Library, MSS 364/8; Reel no.CY 1101.
42. Miles Franklin, Some Everyday Folk and Dawn, first pub. 1909, published with new introduction by Jill Roe (Virago Press) London, 1986 (page references given in the text).
43. John Hetherington, Melba (Penguin) Ringwood, 1967, p. 25.
44. Marie Pitt, 'The Greatest Strike in World History', Socialist, 1 December 1906, quoted in Colleen Burke, Doherty's Corner: The Life and Work of Poet Marie E.J. Pitt (Angus & Robertson) North Ryde, NSW, 1985, p. 37.
45. Marie Pitt, 'The Greatest Strike in World History', Socialist, 1 December 1906, quoted in Colleen Burke, Doherty's Corner: The Life and Work of Poet Marie E.J. Pitt (Angus & Robertson) North Ryde, NSW, 1985, p. 37.
46. Susan Magarey, 'History, Cultural Studies, and Another Look at First-Wave Feminism in Australia', Australian Historical Studies, vol. 27, no. 106, April 1996.
47. Ernesto Laclau and Chantai Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (Verso) London, 1985, p. 181, quoted by Kirstie McClure, 'The Issue of Foundations: Scientized Politics, Politicized Science, and Feminist Cultural Practice' in Judith Butler and Joan W. Scott (eds), Feminists Theorize the Political (Routledge) London and New York, 1992, p. 342.
48. Ernesto Laclau and Chantai Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (Verso) London, 1985, p. 181, quoted by Kirstie McClure, 'The Issue of Foundations: Scientized Politics, Politicized Science, and Feminist Cultural Practice' in Judith Butler and Joan W. Scott (eds), Feminists Theorize the Political (Routledge) London and New York, 1992, p. 342.
49. Desley Deacon, 'Political Arithmetic: The Nineteenth Century Australian Census and the Construction of the Dependent Woman', Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 11, no. 1, 1985;
50. Desley Deacon, Managing Gender: The State, the New Middle Class and Women Workers 1830-1930 (Oxford University Press) Melbourne, 1989, chs 4-8, see especially pp. 131-2.
51. For a detailed discussion, see Alison Mackinnon, Love and Freedom: Professional Women and the Reshaping of Personal Life (Cambridge Univerity Press) Melbourne, forthcoming; see also Rosemary Pringle, 'Octavius Beale and the Ideology of the Birthrate', Refractory Girl, no. 3, Winter 1973; Neville Hicks, 'This Sin and Scandal': Australia's Population Debate 1891-1911 (Australian National University Press) Canberra, 1978.
52. For a detailed discussion, see Alison Mackinnon, Love and Freedom: Professional Women and the Reshaping of Personal Life (Cambridge Univerity Press) Melbourne, forthcoming; see also Rosemary Pringle, 'Octavius Beale and the Ideology of the Birthrate', Refractory Girl, no. 3, Winter 1973; Neville Hicks, 'This Sin and Scandal': Australia's Population Debate 1891-1911 (Australian National University Press) Canberra, 1978.
53. For a detailed discussion, see Alison Mackinnon, Love and Freedom: Professional Women and the Reshaping of Personal Life (Cambridge Univerity Press) Melbourne, forthcoming; see also Rosemary Pringle, 'Octavius Beale and the Ideology of the Birthrate', Refractory Girl, no. 3, Winter 1973; Neville Hicks, 'This Sin and Scandal': Australia's Population Debate 1891-1911 (Australian National University Press) Canberra, 1978.
54. Royal Commission on the Decline of the Birth-Rate and on the Mortality of Infants in NSW, Report ... (Government Printer) Sydney, 1904, vol. 1, p. 17.
55. Op. cit., pp. 17, 20-1, 26, 28.
56. Op. cit., pp. 52, 54.
57. Quoted in Allen, Rose Scott, p. 182.
58. Michael Wilding, 'Introduction'; Lane, The Workingman's Paradise, pp. 32-6.
59. Michael Wilding, 'Introduction'; Lane, The Workingman's Paradise, pp. 32-6.
60. Lake, 'A Revolution in the Family', p. 379.