Women's Studies

Carrying the Banner
Women, Leadership and Activism in Australia

Edited by Joan Eveline and Lorraine Hayden1999
978 1 876268 301 $27.45 Pb Add to cart

Twenty-two Australian women here reveal their successful leadership strategies. These behind-the-scenes stories show the dramas and frustrations that colour women's experience in the public eye. But rather than portraying 'the woman leader' as an isolated exception, Carrying the Banner celebrates women’s leadership contributions to Australian politics, business, sport, science and the arts as well as their pervasive influence across campaigns for health, education, child care, law reform, sexual equality and preference, Aboriginal rights, cultural diversity, land care, peace and freedom.
'To the oft asked question: can more women in leadership make a difference to the lives of women and the concept of leadership, this book answers an emphatic YES. Read it and celebrate.' Joan Kirner

'...a pleasure to read, dip into for exploring some very different lives as well as others which echo our everyday experiences and extraordinary efforts.' Eva Cox

Future Imaginings
Sexualities and Genders in the New Millennium

Edited by Delys Bird, Wendy Were and Terri-Ann White2003
978 1 920694 072 $32.95 Pb Add to cart

At the beginning of the New Millennium, gender-related issues seem less public and more personal than in the past. Yet there are still a myriad of debates to be had and issues to be resolved.

In Future Imaginings, leading Australian scholars adopt an interdisciplinary approach to investigating, interrogating and developing new ways of thinking about gender. The results challenge not only established perceptions of gender relations and identities, but also explore diverse cultural interpretations and symbolisations of gender - how these have changed and will continue to change into the future.

Ivory Basement Leadership

Joan Eveline2004
978 1 920694 218 $38.95 Pb Add to cart

Leadership in Australian universities is easy to spot: it is hierarchical, detached and predominantly male. In Ivory Basement Leadership, Joan Eveline turns her provocative gaze on the ‘ivory basement’ of Australian tertiary institutions, where administrative staff, research assistants and lower order academics - mostly women - are struggling against what Eveline perceives as being greedy organisations that cannibalise workers’ efforts and energies.

Yet amidst the restructuring pandemic sweeping the tertiary sector, in the corridors, departments, laboratories and offices of the ‘ivory basement’, Eveline discerns a 'post–heroic' leadership model that values personal relationships, teaching, loyalty, and collaborative innovation which has the potential to revive our ailing universities.

Women Making Time:
Contemporary Feminist Critique and Cultural Analysis

Edited by Elizabeth McMahon and Brigitta Olubas2006
978 1 920694 609 $39.95 Pb Add to cart

How do women experience time in the modern world? What connections can be drawn between time, action and ethical human relations? From vantage points extending across the humanities and social sciences, Women Making Time looks at how women fashion understandings of the past, present and future.

Reviewing the ways in which feminist issues have been reduced to generational disputes between the 1970s and 1990s, Women Making Time recuperates forgotten and overlooked moments in history to illuminate the complex banalities, achievements and continuities of women’s experiences.

'...the essays engage with the issues that inflect and complicate feminist studies. Importantly they recognise feminism as a political form and consider this engagement with the politics of ecology, of race, of sexuality....' Dr Judith Johnston, English Department, The University of Western Australia