Undoing an activist response: Feminism and the Australian government's domestic violence policy

Critical Social Policy

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 192-219

  Phillips, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Feminist frameworks; Social conservatism; Social policy; Women's citizenship

Indexed keywords

FEMINISM; NATIONAL POLITICS; SOCIAL POLICY; VIOLENCE; WOMENS STATUS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33646253935     PISSN: 02610183     EISSN: 1461703X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261018306059771     Document Type: Article

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