Gender Studies and Women's Studies

Australian Feminist Studies

Volumn 15, Issue 31, 2000, Pages 39-48

  Threadgold, Terry ^a  

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1. Lyndall Ryan, 'Women's Studies in Australian Higher Education: Introduction and Brief History', Australian Universities Review, vol. 34, no. 2, 1991, p. 4. See also the discussion of the issue of Gender Studies as a 'place for the taming of difference' and a place where men can instantly become expert on all aspects of men and women in C. Nadia Seremetakis, 'Gender Studies or Women's Studies. Theoretical and Pedagogical Issues, Research Agendas and Directions', Australian Feminist Studies, no. 20, Summer 1994, pp. 107-18. In her 1995 Report for an External Review of the Women's Research Centre at UWS, Dr Cate Poynton had the following to say, 'Finally the cynicism of many academic feminists (wherever located) towards new fields such as Gender Studies, is by no means unjustified. Feminists have good reasons for seeing these moves by male academics (1) to "muscle in" on an area mapped out substantially by women in the 70s and 80s and (2) by establishing gender-neutral terms (most obviously "gender" itself), as efforts to both masculinise and depoliticise the terrain.'
2. Lyndall Ryan, 'Women's Studies in Australian Higher Education: Introduction and Brief History', Australian Universities Review, vol. 34, no. 2, 1991, p. 4. See also the discussion of the issue of Gender Studies as a 'place for the taming of difference' and a place where men can instantly become expert on all aspects of men and women in C. Nadia Seremetakis, 'Gender Studies or Women's Studies. Theoretical and Pedagogical Issues, Research Agendas and Directions', Australian Feminist Studies, no. 20, Summer 1994, pp. 107-18. In her 1995 Report for an External Review of the Women's Research Centre at UWS, Dr Cate Poynton had the following to say, 'Finally the cynicism of many academic feminists (wherever located) towards new fields such as Gender Studies, is by no means unjustified. Feminists have good reasons for seeing these moves by male academics (1) to "muscle in" on an area mapped out substantially by women in the 70s and 80s and (2) by establishing gender-neutral terms (most obviously "gender" itself), as efforts to both masculinise and depoliticise the terrain.'
3. Annamarie Jagose, Queer Theory (Melbourne University Press) Melbourne, 1996. For work on the Gay movement see: Denis Altman, Homosexual Oppression and Liberation (Angus and Robertson) Sydney, 1971, The Homosexualization of America: the Americanization of the Homosexual (St Martin's Press) New York, 1982; Gary Dowsctt, Men who have Sex with Men: National HIV/Aids Education (Australian Government Publishing Service) Canberra, 1991; Gary Wotherspoon, 'City of the Plain': History of Gay Sub-culture (Hale and Ironmonger) Sydney, 1991; Denise Thompson, Flaws in the Social Fabric: Homosexuals and Society in Sydney (George Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1985. The complex relationship from the outset in the 1960s and 1970s between lesbian feminism, gay liberation and feminism is outlined by Jagose in Queer Theory in chapter 5.
4. Annamarie Jagose, Queer Theory (Melbourne University Press) Melbourne, 1996. For work on the Gay movement see: Denis Altman, Homosexual Oppression and Liberation (Angus and Robertson) Sydney, 1971, The Homosexualization of America: the Americanization of the Homosexual (St Martin's Press) New York, 1982; Gary Dowsctt, Men who have Sex with Men: National HIV/Aids Education (Australian Government Publishing Service) Canberra, 1991; Gary Wotherspoon, 'City of the Plain': History of Gay Sub-culture (Hale and Ironmonger) Sydney, 1991; Denise Thompson, Flaws in the Social Fabric: Homosexuals and Society in Sydney (George Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1985. The complex relationship from the outset in the 1960s and 1970s between lesbian feminism, gay liberation and feminism is outlined by Jagose in Queer Theory in chapter 5.
5. Annamarie Jagose, Queer Theory (Melbourne University Press) Melbourne, 1996. For work on the Gay movement see: Denis Altman, Homosexual Oppression and Liberation (Angus and Robertson) Sydney, 1971, The Homosexualization of America: the Americanization of the Homosexual (St Martin's Press) New York, 1982; Gary Dowsctt, Men who have Sex with Men: National HIV/Aids Education (Australian Government Publishing Service) Canberra, 1991; Gary Wotherspoon, 'City of the Plain': History of Gay Sub-culture (Hale and Ironmonger) Sydney, 1991; Denise Thompson, Flaws in the Social Fabric: Homosexuals and Society in Sydney (George Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1985. The complex relationship from the outset in the 1960s and 1970s between lesbian feminism, gay liberation and feminism is outlined by Jagose in Queer Theory in chapter 5.
6. Annamarie Jagose, Queer Theory (Melbourne University Press) Melbourne, 1996. For work on the Gay movement see: Denis Altman, Homosexual Oppression and Liberation (Angus and Robertson) Sydney, 1971, The Homosexualization of America: the Americanization of the Homosexual (St Martin's Press) New York, 1982; Gary Dowsctt, Men who have Sex with Men: National HIV/Aids Education (Australian Government Publishing Service) Canberra, 1991; Gary Wotherspoon, 'City of the Plain': History of Gay Sub-culture (Hale and Ironmonger) Sydney, 1991; Denise Thompson, Flaws in the Social Fabric: Homosexuals and Society in Sydney (George Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1985. The complex relationship from the outset in the 1960s and 1970s between lesbian feminism, gay liberation and feminism is outlined by Jagose in Queer Theory in chapter 5.
7. Annamarie Jagose, Queer Theory (Melbourne University Press) Melbourne, 1996. For work on the Gay movement see: Denis Altman, Homosexual Oppression and Liberation (Angus and Robertson) Sydney, 1971, The Homosexualization of America: the Americanization of the Homosexual (St Martin's Press) New York, 1982; Gary Dowsctt, Men who have Sex with Men: National HIV/Aids Education (Australian Government Publishing Service) Canberra, 1991; Gary Wotherspoon, 'City of the Plain': History of Gay Sub-culture (Hale and Ironmonger) Sydney, 1991; Denise Thompson, Flaws in the Social Fabric: Homosexuals and Society in Sydney (George Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1985. The complex relationship from the outset in the 1960s and 1970s between lesbian feminism, gay liberation and feminism is outlined by Jagose in Queer Theory in chapter 5.
8. Annamarie Jagose, Queer Theory (Melbourne University Press) Melbourne, 1996. For work on the Gay movement see: Denis Altman, Homosexual Oppression and Liberation (Angus and Robertson) Sydney, 1971, The Homosexualization of America: the Americanization of the Homosexual (St Martin's Press) New York, 1982; Gary Dowsctt, Men who have Sex with Men: National HIV/Aids Education (Australian Government Publishing Service) Canberra, 1991; Gary Wotherspoon, 'City of the Plain': History of Gay Sub-culture (Hale and Ironmonger) Sydney, 1991; Denise Thompson, Flaws in the Social Fabric: Homosexuals and Society in Sydney (George Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1985. The complex relationship from the outset in the 1960s and 1970s between lesbian feminism, gay liberation and feminism is outlined by Jagose in Queer Theory in chapter 5.
9. Ngaire Naffine, Feminism and Criminology (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1997.
10. Ryan, 'Women's Studies in Australian Higher Education', p. 4.
11. Diane Bell and Renate Klein (eds) Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed (Spinifex Press) Melbourne, 1996.
12. Judith Allen, 'Women's Studies in the 1990s: Problems and Prospects', AUR, vol. 34, no. 2, 1991, 8-11.
13. Gisela Kaplan, The Meagre Harvest: the Australian Women's Movement 1950s-1990s (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1996.
14. The work of feminist philosophers and social theorists like Elizabeth Grosz, Moira Gatens, Genevieve Lloyd, Carole Pateman, Mia Campioni, Anna Yeatman and others was central to these changes. Genevieve Lloyd, The Man of Reason (Methuen) London, 1984; Elizabeth Gross, 'Love's Labour's Lost: Marxism and Feminism' and M. Gatens, 'A Critique of the Sex/Gender Distinction' in J. Allen and P. Patton (eds), Beyond Marxism? Interventions after Marx (Intervention Publications) Sydney, 1983, pp. 113- 49 and pp. 143-62; Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract (Polity Press) Cambridge, 1988; Carole Pateman and Elizabeth Grosz, Feminist Challenges: Social and Political Theory (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1986; Barbara Caine, E.A. Grosz and Marie de Lepervanche, Crossing Boundaries: Feminisms and the Critique of Knowledges (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1988; Anna Yeatman, Beaurocrats, Technocrats, Femocrats: Essays on the Contemporary Australian State (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1990.
15. The work of feminist philosophers and social theorists like Elizabeth Grosz, Moira Gatens, Genevieve Lloyd, Carole Pateman, Mia Campioni, Anna Yeatman and others was central to these changes. Genevieve Lloyd, The Man of Reason (Methuen) London, 1984; Elizabeth Gross, 'Love's Labour's Lost: Marxism and Feminism' and M. Gatens, 'A Critique of the Sex/Gender Distinction' in J. Allen and P. Patton (eds), Beyond Marxism? Interventions after Marx (Intervention Publications) Sydney, 1983, pp. 113-49 and pp. 143-62; Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract (Polity Press) Cambridge, 1988; Carole Pateman and Elizabeth Grosz, Feminist Challenges: Social and Political Theory (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1986; Barbara Caine, E.A. Grosz and Marie de Lepervanche, Crossing Boundaries: Feminisms and the Critique of Knowledges (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1988; Anna Yeatman, Beaurocrats, Technocrats, Femocrats: Essays on the Contemporary Australian State (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1990.
16. The work of feminist philosophers and social theorists like Elizabeth Grosz, Moira Gatens, Genevieve Lloyd, Carole Pateman, Mia Campioni, Anna Yeatman and others was central to these changes. Genevieve Lloyd, The Man of Reason (Methuen) London, 1984; Elizabeth Gross, 'Love's Labour's Lost: Marxism and Feminism' and M. Gatens, 'A Critique of the Sex/Gender Distinction' in J. Allen and P. Patton (eds), Beyond Marxism? Interventions after Marx (Intervention Publications) Sydney, 1983, pp. 113- 49 and pp. 143-62; Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract (Polity Press) Cambridge, 1988; Carole Pateman and Elizabeth Grosz, Feminist Challenges: Social and Political Theory (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1986; Barbara Caine, E.A. Grosz and Marie de Lepervanche, Crossing Boundaries: Feminisms and the Critique of Knowledges (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1988; Anna Yeatman, Beaurocrats, Technocrats, Femocrats: Essays on the Contemporary Australian State (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1990.
17. The work of feminist philosophers and social theorists like Elizabeth Grosz, Moira Gatens, Genevieve Lloyd, Carole Pateman, Mia Campioni, Anna Yeatman and others was central to these changes. Genevieve Lloyd, The Man of Reason (Methuen) London, 1984; Elizabeth Gross, 'Love's Labour's Lost: Marxism and Feminism' and M. Gatens, 'A Critique of the Sex/Gender Distinction' in J. Allen and P. Patton (eds), Beyond Marxism? Interventions after Marx (Intervention Publications) Sydney, 1983, pp. 113- 49 and pp. 143-62; Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract (Polity Press) Cambridge, 1988; Carole Pateman and Elizabeth Grosz, Feminist Challenges: Social and Political Theory (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1986; Barbara Caine, E.A. Grosz and Marie de Lepervanche, Crossing Boundaries: Feminisms and the Critique of Knowledges (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1988; Anna Yeatman, Beaurocrats, Technocrats, Femocrats: Essays on the Contemporary Australian State (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1990.
18. The work of feminist philosophers and social theorists like Elizabeth Grosz, Moira Gatens, Genevieve Lloyd, Carole Pateman, Mia Campioni, Anna Yeatman and others was central to these changes. Genevieve Lloyd, The Man of Reason (Methuen) London, 1984; Elizabeth Gross, 'Love's Labour's Lost: Marxism and Feminism' and M. Gatens, 'A Critique of the Sex/Gender Distinction' in J. Allen and P. Patton (eds), Beyond Marxism? Interventions after Marx (Intervention Publications) Sydney, 1983, pp. 113- 49 and pp. 143-62; Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract (Polity Press) Cambridge, 1988; Carole Pateman and Elizabeth Grosz, Feminist Challenges: Social and Political Theory (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1986; Barbara Caine, E.A. Grosz and Marie de Lepervanche, Crossing Boundaries: Feminisms and the Critique of Knowledges (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1988; Anna Yeatman, Beaurocrats, Technocrats, Femocrats: Essays on the Contemporary Australian State (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1990.
19. The work of feminist philosophers and social theorists like Elizabeth Grosz, Moira Gatens, Genevieve Lloyd, Carole Pateman, Mia Campioni, Anna Yeatman and others was central to these changes. Genevieve Lloyd, The Man of Reason (Methuen) London, 1984; Elizabeth Gross, 'Love's Labour's Lost: Marxism and Feminism' and M. Gatens, 'A Critique of the Sex/Gender Distinction' in J. Allen and P. Patton (eds), Beyond Marxism? Interventions after Marx (Intervention Publications) Sydney, 1983, pp. 113- 49 and pp. 143-62; Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract (Polity Press) Cambridge, 1988; Carole Pateman and Elizabeth Grosz, Feminist Challenges: Social and Political Theory (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1986; Barbara Caine, E.A. Grosz and Marie de Lepervanche, Crossing Boundaries: Feminisms and the Critique of Knowledges (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1988; Anna Yeatman, Beaurocrats, Technocrats, Femocrats: Essays on the Contemporary Australian State (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1990.
20. For example: The Report on the 1985 Women's Studies Conference at Sydney University (Diane Court, 'Women's Studies: Ghetto or Goer', Australian Feminist Studies 1986, no. 2, pp. 55-7) which expresses considerable anger at the failure of the conference to address the issues of work and sexuality which had been the main focus of 'the early Women's Liberation Conferences whence came Women's Studies' (p. 57). The reports in the next issue of the journal on the Feminism and the Humanities Year at the Humanities Research Centre, ANU, and of the three conferences held in connection with that year, indicate in places a similar discontent with certain kinds of 'privileging', of French theory over other kinds, of canonical art and criticism rather over performance and so on. (1986, no. 3, pp. 97-114).
21. Australian Feminist Studies, 1987, no. 5 and 1989, no. 10.
22. Australian Feminist Studies, 1987, no. 5 and 1989, no. 10.
23. The work of feminist philosophers Elizabeth Grosz and Moira Gatens in particular has made these positions known to Australian feminist audiences. The intersections between this work and work in contemporary cultural politics saw the production of books like: Rosalyn Diprose and Robyn Ferrell (eds), Cartographies: Poststructuralism and the Mapping of Bodies and Spaces (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1991. This book was not specifically feminist, although much of its impetus came from the contemporary feminist theory around the issue of corporeality. It included the work of a number of men including Paul Patton and Geoffrey Batchen.
24. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge) New York and London, 1990, quoted in Jagose, Queer Theory, p. 83.
25. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge) New York and London, 1990, quoted in Jagose, Queer Theory, p. 83.
26. Pateman, The Sexual Contract, Elizabeth Grosz, Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (Allen & Unwin) St Leonards, NSW, 1994; Moira Gatens, Imaginary Bodies: Ethics, Power and C orporeality (Routledge) New York, 1996.
27. Pateman, The Sexual Contract, Elizabeth Grosz, Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (Allen & Unwin) St Leonards, NSW, 1994; Moira Gatens, Imaginary Bodies: Ethics, Power and C orporeality (Routledge) New York, 1996.
28. Pateman, The Sexual Contract, Elizabeth Grosz, Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (Allen & Unwin) St Leonards, NSW, 1994; Moira Gatens, Imaginary Bodies: Ethics, Power and C orporeality (Routledge) New York, 1996.
29. Barbara Caine and Rosemary Pringle (eds), Transitions: New Australian Feminisms (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1995. Sneja Gunew and Anna Yeatman (eds), Feminism and the Politics of Difference (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1993. Both of these collections, the first with all Australian contributors, the second with a significant number of overseas contributions, suggest new and interesting directions for Australian feminisms. In the first there are at least two significant new directions. The work of Ien Ang, now Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Western Sydney, begins to question the ethnocentrism and privilege of Australian feminism from within. Other contributors bring feminist theory to bear on some new areas: art, music, technology, social policy, social geography and political theory. The Gunew and Yeatman book, continuing some of Gunew's important work when she was in Australia, includes writing by Australian Aboriginal historian Jackie Huggins, and addresses directly issues of racism, globalisation, migration and feminism as well as Australian multicultural women's writing and the difficult question of the relationship between feminist theory, Women's Studies and postcolonial theory.
30. Barbara Caine and Rosemary Pringle (eds), Transitions: New Australian Feminisms (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1995. Sneja Gunew and Anna Yeatman (eds), Feminism and the Politics of Difference (Allen & Unwin) Sydney, 1993. Both of these collections, the first with all Australian contributors, the second with a significant number of overseas contributions, suggest new and interesting directions for Australian feminisms. In the first there are at least two significant new directions. The work of Ien Ang, now Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Western Sydney, begins to question the ethnocentrism and privilege of Australian feminism from within. Other contributors bring feminist theory to bear on some new areas: art, music, technology, social policy, social geography and political theory. The Gunew and Yeatman book, continuing some of Gunew's important work when she was in Australia, includes writing by Australian Aboriginal historian Jackie Huggins, and addresses directly issues of racism, globalisation, migration and feminism as well as Australian multicultural women's writing and the difficult question of the relationship between feminist theory, Women's Studies and postcolonial theory.
31. Terry Threadgold, 'Cultural Studies, Feminist Values: Strange Bedfellows or Sisters in Crime', Plenary paper delivered to the Australian Cultural Studies Conference: 'Whose Cultural Studies? Politics, Risks, Voices', Charles Sturt University, December 1995 (in press as part of the proceedings of that conference, edited by Paul Washington).
32. Kay Schaffer and Bev Thiele, '"There's Good News in the Mail!": Women's Studies by External Mode of Delivery', Australian Universities Review, vol. 34, no. 2, 1991, pp. 20-3.
33. Ryan, 'Women's Studies in Australian Higher Education', p. 4.
34. Gretchen Poiner, 'Women's Studies as Scholarship and Social Process', Papers from the Women's Research Centre Women's Studies Symposium, April 7, 1993, Working Papers in Women's Studies, no. 13, 1993, University of Western Sydney, Nepean, p. 5.
35. Susan Magarey, 'Women's Studies around the World', Working Papers in Women's Studies, no. 13, 1993, University of Western Sydney, Nepean, Women's Research Centre, p. 13.
36. Cate Poynton, Women's Research Centre, Report for External Review 1995, University of Western Sydney, Nepean, p. 14.
37. Magarey, 'Women's Studies around the World', p. 12.
38. Poynton, Women's Research Centre, p. 14.
39. Lesley Johnson, 'Gender Issues and Education', Australian Feminist Studies, no. 11, Autumn 1990, pp. 17-27.
40. Rosie Waldon and Valerie Walkerdine, Girls and Mathematics, Bedford Way papers 8 and 24, Institutes of Education, University of London, 1982, 1985.
41. Alison Lee, Gender, Literacy, Curriculum: Re-writing School Geography (Taylor & Francis) London, 1996.
42. Barbara Kamler, Rod Maclean, Jo-Anne Reid, Alyson Simpson, Shaping Up Nicely: the Formation of Schoolgirls and Schoolboys. A Report to the Gender Equity and Curriculum Reform Project, Department of Employment, Education and Training, Canberra (Australian Government Publishing Service) Canberra, 1994.
43. Alison Lee, Gender, Literacy, Curriculum: Re-writing School Geography (Taylor & Francis) London, 1996.
44. Kamler, Maclean, Reid and Simpson, Shaping Up Nicely: the Formation of Schoolgirls and Schoolboys. A Report to the Gender Equity and Curriculum Reform Project, Department of Employment, Education and Training, Canberra (Australian Government Publishing Service) Canberra, 1994.