Desperate to Survive: Contracting Women's Services in a Region in Melbourne

Australian Feminist Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 30, 1999, Pages 405-414

  Egan, Ronnie ^a   Hoatson, Lesley ^a  

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EID: 0033263124     PISSN: 08164649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08164649993218     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Wendy Weeks, Women Working Together (Longman Cheshire) Melbourne, 1994, defines feminist organisations as those run by women for women who organise their work according to feminist or women-centred principles of practice. They are typically small organisations, either community-based or autonomous units under the umbrella of a larger non-government organisation. Their work focuses on public education and action towards social change, as well as providing a range of services and activities for women participants or service users.
2. Eva Cox, A Truly Civil Society, The 1995 Boyer Lecture, Lecture 1 (ABC Radio National Transcripts), Sydney, 1995.
3. Stephanie Riger, 'Vehicles for Empowerment: The Case for Feminist Movement Organisations', Prevention in Human Services, vol. 3, no. 2-3, 1984, p. 110.
4. The Women Workers' group is a network of women working in one region of Melbourne.
5. The women who took part in our research, both in individual interviews and group discussions, included workers from domestic violence, sexual assault, women's health, refuges and neighbourhood houses.
6. Suzanne Franzway, Dianne Court and Robert Connell, Staking a Claim: Feminism, Bureaucracy and the State (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1989; Robin Leidner, 'Stretching the Boundaries of Liberalism: Democratic Innovation in a Feminist Organisation', Signs, vol. 16, no. 2, 1991, pp. 263-89; Diane Sandage and Polly Radosh, 'The Women's Movement and the Rebirth of Feminism: Conflicts and Contradictions', Humanity and Society, vol. 16, no. 3, 1992, pp. 277-95.
7. Suzanne Franzway, Dianne Court and Robert Connell, Staking a Claim: Feminism, Bureaucracy and the State (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1989; Robin Leidner, 'Stretching the Boundaries of Liberalism: Democratic Innovation in a Feminist Organisation', Signs, vol. 16, no. 2, 1991, pp. 263-89; Diane Sandage and Polly Radosh, 'The Women's Movement and the Rebirth of Feminism: Conflicts and Contradictions', Humanity and Society, vol. 16, no. 3, 1992, pp. 277-95.
8. Suzanne Franzway, Dianne Court and Robert Connell, Staking a Claim: Feminism, Bureaucracy and the State (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1989; Robin Leidner, 'Stretching the Boundaries of Liberalism: Democratic Innovation in a Feminist Organisation', Signs, vol. 16, no. 2, 1991, pp. 263-89; Diane Sandage and Polly Radosh, 'The Women's Movement and the Rebirth of Feminism: Conflicts and Contradictions', Humanity and Society, vol. 16, no. 3, 1992, pp. 277-95.
9. Dorothy Broom, Damned if we do: Contradictions in Women's Health (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1991, p. xii.
10. Riger, 'Vehicles', p. 109.
11. Leidner, 'Stretching', p. 283; Patricia Yancey Martin, 'Rethinking Feminist Organisations', Gender and Society, vol. 4, no. 2, 1990, pp. 182-206.
12. Leidner, 'Stretching', p. 283; Patricia Yancey Martin, 'Rethinking Feminist Organisations', Gender and Society, vol. 4, no. 2, 1990, pp. 182-206.
13. We recognise the concept of patriarchy has fallen into disuse and that there is some tension around it that replicates some of the conflicts between Marxist and radical feminisms. Rosemary Pringle, 'Destabilising Patriarchy' in Barbara Caine and Rosemary Pringle (eds), Transitions: New Australian Feminisms (Allen & Unwin) St Leonards, NSW, 1995. However, this is the language of the women we worked with. Perhaps this is indicative of the current gap between on-the-ground and social policy debates.
14. Broom, Damned, p. 106.
15. Broom, Damned, p. 107, Weeks, Women, p. 118.
16. Broom, Damned, p. 107, Weeks, Women, p. 118.
17. Broom, Damned, p. 117.
18. Jo Freeman, 'The Tyranny of Structurelessness', The Second Wane, vol. 2, no. 1, 1972, pp. 20-5.
19. Weeks, Women, p. 161; Chris Lee, 'The Feminization of Management', Training Magazine, 25-31 November 1994.
20. Weeks, Women, p. 161; Chris Lee, 'The Feminization of Management', Training Magazine, 25-31 November 1994.
21. Michelle Hurst, 'Power and Leadership in Women's Organisations', Unpublished Master's paper, 1995. Refer to note 4.
22. Pringle, 'Destabilising Patriarchy'.
23. Riger, 'Vehicles', p. 108; Broom, Damned, p. 122; Weeks, Women, p. 69.
24. Riger, 'Vehicles', p. 108; Broom, Damned, p. 122; Weeks, Women, p. 69.
25. Riger, 'Vehicles', p. 108; Broom, Damned, p. 122; Weeks, Women, p. 69.
26. Broom, Damned, p. 122.
27. Kenwyn Smith, Valerie Simmons and Terri Thames, '"Fix the Women": an Intervention into an Organisational Conflict Based on Parallel Process Thinking', The Journal of Applied Behavioural Science, vol. 25, no. 1, 1989, p. 13.
28. Weeks, Women, p. 148.
29. John Alford and Deirdre O'Neill (eds), The Contract State: Public Management and the Kennett Government (Deakin University Press) Deakin University, 1994, p. 4.
30. Riger, 'Vehicles', p. 106; Weeks, Women, p. 133.
31. Riger, 'Vehicles', p. 106; Weeks, Women, p. 133.
32. Weeks, Women, p. 68.
33. Alice Eagly, Mona Makhijani and Bruce Klonsky, 'Gender and the Evaluation of Leaders - A Meta Analysis', Psychological Bulletin, vol. 111, 1992, pp. 3-22; Lee, 'The Feminization', pp. 25-31.
34. Alice Eagly, Mona Makhijani and Bruce Klonsky, 'Gender and the Evaluation of Leaders - A Meta Analysis', Psychological Bulletin, vol. 111, 1992, pp. 3-22; Lee, 'The Feminization', pp. 25-31.
35. Eagly,'Gender', p. 21.
36. Weeks, Women, p. 128.
37. Lesley Hoatson and Jane Dixon, 'Grieving, Celebrating and Regrouping', Community Quarterly, no. 43, 1997, p. 48; Richard Hames, The Managing Myth: Exploring the Essence of Future Organisations (Business and Professional Publishing) Sydney, 1994.
38. Lesley Hoatson and Jane Dixon, 'Grieving, Celebrating and Regrouping', Community Quarterly, no. 43, 1997, p. 48; Richard Hames, The Managing Myth: Exploring the Essence of Future Organisations (Business and Professional Publishing) Sydney, 1994.
39. Weeks, Women, p. 31.
40. Riger, 'Vehicles', p. 101.
41. Broom, Damned, p. 108.