Bodies in translation: French feminist influences on anglophone feminist theory: Review article

Review of the following books: French Feminist Theory. Dani Cavallaro, 2003. London and New York, Continuum. The Sex of Knowing, Miche` le Le Doeuff, 2003. translated by Kathryn Hamer and Lorraine Code. New York and London, Routledge. Touching Thought: Ontology and Sexual Difference . Ellen Mortensen, 2003. Lanham, Boulder, New York and Oxford, Lexington.

Barriers to equality: men's and women's attitudes to workplace entitlements in Australia

This paper examines attitudes to workplace entitlements, such as parental leave and flexible work hours. Family friendly policies such as leave to care for children have implications for feminist debates about sameness versus difference and the extent to which such policies will lead to greater equality between men and women, or alternatively, further entrench existing gender divisions of labour: Using data from a recent national survey in Australia, the paper shows that while the Australian workforce is generally in favour of workplace entitlements, women are generally more supportive of these kinds of benefits than men. Surprisingly, most respondents are more supportive of unpaid rather than paid parental leave. The results also show that the most important determinants of support for work entitlements are a combination of the extent to which one needs work entitlements and employment location. The results raise issues about whether the provision of workplace entitlements will encourage greater participation by men in domestic responsibilities, or simply ease women's double burden of paid and unpaid work.

The politics of manhood - Kimmel,M

This essay reviews two recently published American books about masculinity politics - Michael Kimmel's pro-feminist Manhood in America adn his edited collection The Politics of Manhood - in order to comment critically on the current debate underway in various parts of he world on 'boys' and their schooling which sees them as the 'new victims' of the educational process.

Embodied women at work in neo-liberal times and places

In this article five women explore (female) embodiment in academic work in current workplaces. In a week-long collective biography workshop they produced written memories of themselves in their various workplaces and memories of themselves as children and as students. These memories then became the texts out of which the analysis was generated. The authors examine the constitutive and seductive effects of neoliberal discourses and practices, and in particular, the assembling of academic bodies as particular kinds of working bodies. They use the concept of chiasma, or crossing over, to trouble some aspects of binary thinking about bodies and about the relations between bodies and discourses. They examine the way that we simultaneously resist and appropriate, and are seduced by and appropriated within, neoliberal discourses and practices.