Can the educated women of the 1990s have both a career and a fulfilling personal life? This book traces the history of women's responses to changes in education, employment, reproductive science and law since the 1890s. Increased work and education opportunities and knowledge of contraception meant choice about when, and indeed whether, to marry and have children. The author utilizes social and government history, autobiography and statistical analysis. This incisive interdisciplinary book will find broad appeal.

This important interdisciplinary volume explores feminist approaches to institutional design and reshaping. It looks at the scope for ensuring that Australian institutions acknowledge gender difference and deliver more equitable outcomes. It shows how gendered regulatory norms underpin and intersect with all other institutional settings. The leading team of writers discusses topics including: institutions, embodiment and sexual difference; the welfare state; housing policy; household work; republicanism and citizenship; and gender-based discrimination.

The combined effort of 19 feminist educators and theorists from four continents, this collection of essays is designed to be as wide-ranging as it is geographically. Probing the abilities (and dis-abilities) of women in education from the mid-19th century to the present, it brings historical analysis, classroom research, and theoretical reflection to bear on gender issues in schooling and higher education. What about the boys? cry alarmists who fear a feminist takeover in schools. What about them indeed?, say students of women's education who wonder it it is now time to engage more explicitly...

The combined effort of 19 feminist educators and theorists from four continents, this collection of essays is designed to be as wide-ranging as it is geographically. Probing the abilities (and dis-abilities) of women in education from the mid-19th century to the present, it brings historical analysis, classroom research, and theoretical reflection to bear on gender issues in schooling and higher education. What about the boys? cry alarmists who fear a feminist takeover in schools. What about them indeed?, say students of women's education who wonder it it is now time to engage more explicitly...