Managing the woman issue

International Feminist Journal of Politics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 173-197

  Pini, Barbara ^a   Panelli, Ruth ^b   Sawer, Marian ^c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Farm women; Feminism; The state; Women; Women's movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749143253     PISSN: 14616742     EISSN: 14684470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616740801957539     Document Type: Review

References (80)

1. Agriculture and Food Policy Reference Group. 2005. Ensuring a Profitable and Sustainable Agriculture and Food Sector in Australia. Issues paper. Canberra: AFFA.
2. Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Australia (AFFA). 1999. Women as Clients Strategy. Canberra: AFFA.
3. Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Australia (AFFA). 2005. Australian Agriculture and Food Sector: Future Directions. Canberra: AFFA.
4. Alston, M. 1995. Women on the Land. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press.
5. Australian Women's Organisations Conference (AWOC). 2001. Media release 25/26, August
6. Banaszak, L., Beckwith, K. and Rucht, D. (eds). 2003. Women's Movements Facing the Reconfigured State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
7. Beckwith, K. 2000. 'Beyond Compare? Women's Movements in Comparative Perspective', European Journal of Political Research 37 (3): 431-68.
8. Bell, J. H. and Pandey, U. S. 1989. 'Gender-Role Stereotypes in Australian Farm Advertising', Media Information Australia 51: 45-9.
9. Brown, W. 1992. 'Finding the Man in the State', Feminist Studies 18 (1): 7-34.
10. Bryant, L. 1999. 'The Detraditionalisation of Occupational Identities in South Australia', Sociologia Ruralis 39 (2): 236-61.
11. Chappell, L. 2000. 'Interacting with the State: Feminist Strategies and Political Opportunities', International Feminist Journal of Politics 2 (2): 244-75.
12. Chappell, L. 2001. 'Federalism and Social Policy: The Case of Domestic Violence', Australian Journal of Public Administration 60 (1): 59-69.
13. Chappell, L. 2002. Gendering Government: Feminist Engagement with the State in Australia and New Zealand. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
14. Conway, J. K. 1989. The Road to Coorain. London: Heinemann.
15. Dahlerup, D. and Freidenvall, L. 2005. 'Quotas as a "Fast Track" to Equal Political Representation for Women', International Feminist Journal of Politics 7 (1): 26-48.
16. Daly, M. E. 2005. 'Gender Mainstreaming in Theory and Practice', Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society 12 (3): 433-50.
17. Dempsey, K. 1992. A Man's Town: Inequality between Women and Men in Rural Australia. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
18. Department of Transport and Regional Services (DOTARS). 2005. A Snapshot of Women's Representation on Selected Regional Bodies. Canberra: DOTARS.
19. Donaghy, T. B. 2003a. 'Gender and Public Policy Making in Australia: The Howard Government's Big Fat Lie', paper presented at Australian Political Science Association conference, Hobart, September.
20. Donaghy, T. B. 2003b. 'Gendered Invisible: The Australian Government's Poor Performance in Considering Gender Issues in Mainstream Public Policy', paper presented at International Political Science Association Conference, Durban, South Africa, June.
21. Eisenstein, H. 1996. Inside Agitators: Australian Femocrats and the State. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
22. Elix, J. and Lambert, J. 1998. Missed Opportunities: Harnessing the Potential of Women in Australian Agriculture. Economic Module Vol. 2. Canberra: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation and Department of Primary Industries and Energy.
23. Elson, D. 2004. 'Engendering Government Budgets in the Context of Globalization(s)', International Feminist Journal of Politics 6 (4): 623-42.
24. Fincher, R. and Panelli, R. 2001. 'Making Space: Women's Urban and Rural Activism and the Australian State', Gender, Place and Culture 8 (2): 129-48.
25. Franklin, M., Short, L. M. and Teather, E. K. (eds). 1994. Country Women at the Crossroads. Armidale: University of New England Press.
26. Gibbs, M. 1989. 'Decision Making on Pastoral properties', in James, K. (ed.) Women in Rural Australia, pp. 30-42. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press.
27. Grace, M. 1997. Networking Systems for Rural Women. RIRDC Research Paper no. 97/4. Canberra: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation.
28. Grace, M. and Lennie, J. 1998. 'Constructing and Reconstructing Rural Women in Australia: The Politics of Change, Diversity and Identity', Sociologia Ruralis 38 (3): 351-70.
29. Guerrina, R. 2003. 'Gender, Mainstreaming and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights', Policy and Society 22 (1): 97-115.
30. Haslam-McKenzie, F. 2003. 'Strategies for Getting Women Back on Centre Stage', in Hagan, R., Alston, M. and Spriggs, S. (eds) Setting the Agenda for Rural Women: Research Directions, pp. 36-46. Wagga Wagga: Centre for Rural Social Research.
31. Henderson, S. 1992. From Strength to Strength. Sydney: Pan Macmillan.
32. Hobson, B. 1999. 'Women's Collective Agency, Power Resources, and the Framing of Citizenship Rights', in Hanagan, M. and Tilly, C. (eds) Extending Citizenship, Reconfiguring States, pp. 149-78. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
33. Hogan, E. 1994, 'Making Women Visible: Reflections on Working with Women in Agriculture in Victoria', in Franklin, M., Short, L. M. and Teather, E. K. (eds) Country Women at the Crossroads: Perspectives on the Lives of Rural Australian Women in the 1990s, pp. 31-7. Armidale: University of New England Press.
34. James, K. 1989. 'Introduction', in James, K. (ed.) Women in Rural Australia, pp. 1-19. St Lucia: Queensland University Press.
35. Kantola, J. and Dahl, H. M. 2005. 'Gender and the State: From Differences between to Differences within', International Feminist Journal of Politics 7 (1): 49-70.
36. Kaplan, G. 1996. The Meagre Harvest: The Australian Women's Movement 1950s- 1990s. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin.
37. Kenway, J. 1995. 'Feminist Theories of the State: To Be or Not to Be?', in Blair, M., Holland, J. and Sheldon, S. (eds) Identity and Diversity: Gender and the Experience of Education, pp. 123-42. Clevedon: Open University.
38. Liepins, R. 1998a. 'Fields of Action, Australian Women's Agricultural Activism in the 1990s', Rural Sociology 63 (1): 128-56.
39. Liepins, R. 1998b. 'Women of Broad Vision: Nature and Gender in the Environmental Activism of Australia's "Women in Agriculture' Movement", Environment and Planning A 30 (7): 1179-96.
40. Liepins, R. 1999. 'Women in Agriculture: Action for More Democratic Australian Farm Politics', in Bystydzienski, J. and Sekhon, J. (eds) Democratization and Women's Grassroots Movements, pp. 352-74. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
41. McBride Stetson, D. and Mazur, A. G. 1995. 'Conclusion', in McBridge Stetson, D. and Mazur, A. (eds) Comparative State Feminism, pp. 272-91. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
42. McClure, P. 2000. Participation: Support for a More Equitable Society. Final report of the Reference Group on Welfare Reform. Canberra: Department of Family and Community Services.
43. Maddison, S. 2003-4. 'Burying In or Selling Out: The National Rural Women's Coalition and Secretariats Under the Howard Government', Women Against Violence, pp. 40-5.
44. Mitchell, J. 1994. 'Grass Roots and Government Initiative: Victoria's Rural Women's Network', in Franklin, M., Short, L. M. and Teather, E. K. (eds) Country Women at the Crossroads: Perspectives on the Lives of Rural Australian Women in the 1990s, pp. 140-50. Armidale: University of New England Press.
45. Panelli, R. 2002. 'Contradictory Identities and Political Choices: Women in Agriculture in Australia', in Yeoh, B. S. A., Teo, P. and Huang, S. (eds) Gender Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region, pp. 136-55. London: Routledge.
46. Panelli, R. and Pini, B. 2005. 'This Beats a Cake Stall: A Decade of Rural Women in Australian Policy', Policy and Politics 33 (3): 489-503
47. Pini, B. 1998. 'The Emerging Economic Rationalist Discourse on Women and Leadership in Australian Agriculture', Rural Society 8 (4): 223-34.
48. Pini, B. 2003. 'Strategies for Increasing Women's Representation in Agricultural Leadership', Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management 9 (1): 66-79.
49. Pini, B. 2004. 'Farm Women and Off-Farm Work: A Study of the Australian Sugar Industry', Labour and Industry 15 (1): 53-64.
50. Pini, B. 2005a. 'The Third Sex: Women in Leadership in Australian Agriculture', Gender, Work and Organisation 12 (1): 73-88.
51. Pini, B. 2005b. 'Women, Tractors and Gender Management', International Journal of the Sociology of Food and Agriculture 13 (1): 1-12.
52. Pini, B. and Brown, K. 2004. 'Farm Women and Femocrats', Australian Journal of Political Science 39 (1): 161-74.
53. Pini, B., Brown, K. and Previte J. 2004. 'Politics and Identity in Cyberspace: A Case Study of Australian Women in Agriculture', Information, Communication and Society 7 (2): 167-84.
54. Poiner, G. 1990. The Good Old Rule: Gender and Power Relations in a Rural Community. Sydney: Sydney University Press and Oxford University Press.
55. Pusey, M. 1998. 'The Impact of Economic Restructuring on Women and Families', Australian Quarterly 70 (4): 18-27.
56. Rai, S. M. 2004. 'Gendering Global Governance', International Feminist Journal of Politics 6 (4): 579-601.
57. Rankin, L. P. and Vickers, J. 2001. Women's Movements and State Feminism: Integrating Diversity into Public Policy. Ontario: Status of Women.
58. Regional Women's Advisory Council. 2001. Women Taking Action: Making a Difference in Regional and Rural Communities. Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Transport and Regional Services.
59. Runyan, A. S. 1999. 'Women in the Neo-Liberal "Frame"', in Meyer, M. K. and Prügl, E. (eds) Gender Politics in Global Governance, pp. 210-20. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
60. Russell, L. and Sawer, M. 1999. 'The Rise and Fall of the Australian Women's Bureau', Australian Journal of Politics and History 45 (3): 362-78.
61. Ryan, L. 1990. 'Feminism and the Federal Bureaucracy 1972-1983', in Watson, S. (ed.) Playing the State: Australian Feminist Interventions, pp. 71-84. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
62. Sachs, C. 1983. The Invisible Farmers: Women in Agricultural Production. Totawa, NJ: Rowan & Allanheld.
63. Sawer, M. 1990. Sisters in Suits: Women and Public Policy in Australia. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
64. Sawer, M. 1995. 'Femocrats in Glass Towers? The Office of the Status of Women in Australia', in McBride Stetson, D. and Maxur, A. G. (eds) Comparative State Feminism, pp. 23-29. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
65. Sawer, M. 1998. 'Femocrats and Ecorats: Women's Policy Machinery in Australia, Canada and New Zealand', in Miller, C. and Razavi, S. (eds) Missionaries and Mandarins: Feminist Engagement with Development Institutions, pp. 112-37. London: Intermediate Technology Publications.
66. Sawer, M. 2006. 'From Women's Interests to Special Interests: Reframing Equality Claims', in Chappell, L. and Hill, L. (eds) The Politics of Women's Interests, pp. 111-29. London & New York: Routledge.
67. Sawer, M. 2007. 'Australia: The Fall of the Femocrat', In Outshoorn, J. and Kantola, J. (eds) Changing State Feminism, pp. 20-40. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
68. Sawer, M. 2008. Making Women Count: A History of the Women's Electoral Lobby. Sydney: University of NSW Press.
69. Shortall, S. 1999. Women and Farming: Property and Power. London: Macmillan.
70. Summers, A. 2003. The End of Equality: Work, Babies and Women's Choices in 21st Century Australia. Sydney: Random House.
71. Tarrow, S. 1994. Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
72. Teather, E. K. 1998. 'The Double Bind: Being Female and Being Rural. A Comparative Study of Australia, New Zealand and Canada', Rural Society 8 (3): 209-22.
73. Teghtsoonian, K. 2003. 'W(h)ither Women's Equality? Neoliberalism, Institutional Change and Public Policy in British Columbia', Policy and Society 22 (1): 126-47.
74. Walby, S. 2005. 'Gender Mainstreaming: Productive Tensions in Theory and Practice', Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society 12 (3): 321 -43.
75. Wells, B. and Tanner, B. 1994. 'The Organisational Potential of Women in Agriculture to Sustain Rural Communities', Journal of the Community Development Society 25 (2): 246-58.
76. Whatmore, S. 1991. Farming Women: Gender, Work and Family Enterprise. Houndmills: Macmillan.
77. Williams, J. 1992. The Invisible Farmer: A Report on Australian Farm Women. Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Primary Industries and Energy.
78. Women in Agriculture International Conference Committee. 1995. International Post-Conference Proceedings 1 July 1994-3 July 1994. Melbourne: University of Melbourne.
79. Yeatman, A. 1990. Bureaucrats, Technocrats, Femocrats: Essays on the Contemporary Australian State. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
80. Zifcak S. 2003. The New Anti-Internationalism Australian and the United Nations' International Treaty System. The Australia Institute, Discussion Paper 54. Canberra: Australian National University.