The Women's Movement in Protest, Institutions and the Internet: Australia in Transnational Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780415830904 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 214 str.

Sarah Maddison; Marian Sawer

Opis

Around the world there is a widespread view that women s movements are a thing of the past. In many Western countries, the movement is much less visible and influential today than it was during the heyday of the 1970s second wave, with smaller numbers attending protest events and a far less obvious femocrat presence in government.

Understanding the legacies of the women s movement lends insight to how women everywhere might organise for the political challenges of the future. This book argues and demonstrates that the women s movement is still alive if not quite kicking. It explores the ways in which the movement is continuing to work its way through institutions, and persists within submerged networks, cultural production and in everyday living, sustaining itself in non-receptive political environments and maintaining a discursive feminist space for generations to come. Set in a transnational perspective the authors trace the legacies of the Australian women s movement to the present day in protest, non-government organisations, government organisations, popular culture, the Internet and the Slut Walk.

It will be of interest to international students and scholars of gender politics, gender studies, social movement studies and comparative politics.

Spis treści

Preface Sarah Maddison and Marian Sawer  1. Finding the women’s movement Marian Sawer  2. Disruption, continuity and waves in the feminist movement Drude Dahlerup  3. Discursive politics: Changing the talk and raising expectations Sarah Maddison  4. Taking to the streets Catherine Strong and Kirsty McLaren  5. Hiding in plain sight: Women’s advocacy organisations Marian Sawer and Merrindahl Andrew  6. The institutional harvest: Women’s services and women’s policy agencies Merrindahl Andrew  7. Role models and roller derby: Feminism and popular culture Catherine Strong and Sarah Maddison  8. Blogging and the women’s movement: New feminist networks Frances Shaw  9. Slut walking: Where is the next generation of feminists? Sarah Maddison  10. Global feminist organising: Identifying patterns of activism Myra Marx Ferree and Christina Ewig  Appendix: How, what and why Merrindahl Andrew, Kirsty McLaren, Frances Shaw and Catherine Strong

O autorze

Sarah Maddison is Associate Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia Marian Sawer is Emeritus Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.