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Reluctant Representatives

Blackfella bureaucrats speak in Australia’s north

By: Elizabeth Ganter

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Reluctant Representatives

Blackfella bureaucrats speak in Australia’s north

By: Elizabeth Ganter

‘How can you make decisions about Aboriginal people when you can’t even talk to the people you’ve got here that are blackfellas?’ So ‘Sarah’, a senior Aboriginal public servant, imagines a conversation with the Northern Territory Public Service. Her question suggests tensions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who have accepted the long-standing invitation to join the ranks of the public service. Reluctant Representatives gives us a rare glimpse into the working world of the individuals behind the Indigenous public sector employment statistics. This empathetic exposé of the challenges of representative bureaucracy draws on interviews with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians who have tried making it work. Through Ganter’s engaging narration, we learn that the mere presence of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the public service is not enough. If bureaucracies are to represent the communities they serve, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander public servants need to be heard and need to know their people are heard.

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233

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ANU Press

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1760460338

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9781760460334

Space, Time and Perversion

Essays on the Politics of Bodies

By: Elizabeth Grosz

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Space, Time and Perversion

Essays on the Politics of Bodies

By: Elizabeth Grosz

Exploring the fields of architecture, philosophy, and queer theory, Grosz shows how feminism and cultural analysis have conceptually stripped bodies of their specificity, their corporeality, and the vestigal traces of their production as bodies. She investigates the work of Michel Foucault, Teresa de Lauretis, Gilles Deleuze, Judith Butler and Alphonso Lingi, considering their work by examining the ways in which the functioning of bodies transforms understandings of space and time, knowledge and desire. Grosz moves toward a radical consideration of bodies and their relationship to transgression and perversity.

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366

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Routledge

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1317325443

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9781317325444

Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking

By: Elizabeth M. Schneider

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Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking

By: Elizabeth M. Schneider

Women’s rights advocates in the United States have long argued that violence against women denies women equality and citizenship, but it took a movement of feminist activists and lawyers, beginning in the late 1960s, to set about realizing this vision and transforming domestic violence from a private problem into a public harm. This important book examines the pathbreaking legal process that has brought the pervasiveness and severity of domestic violence to public attention and has led the United States Congress, the Supreme Court, and the United Nations to address the problem. Elizabeth Schneider has played a pioneering role in this process. From an insider’s perspective she explores how claims of rights for battered women have emerged from feminist activism, and she assesses the possibilities and limitations of feminist legal advocacy to improve battered women’s lives and transform law and culture. The book chronicles the struggle to incorporate feminist arguments into law, particularly in cases of battered women who kill their assailants and battered women who are mothers. With a broad perspective on feminist lawmaking as a vehicle of social change, Schneider examines subjects as wide-ranging as criminal prosecution of batterers, the civil rights remedy of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, the O. J. Simpson trials, and a class on battered women and the law that she taught at Harvard Law School. Feminist lawmaking on woman abuse, Schneider argues, should reaffirm the historic vision of violence and gender equality that originally animated activist and legal work.

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331

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Yale University Press

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0300128932

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9780300128932

Volatile Bodies

Toward a Corporeal Feminism

By: Elizabeth Grosz

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Volatile Bodies

Toward a Corporeal Feminism

By: Elizabeth Grosz

Volatile Bodies demonstrates that the sexually specific body is socially constructed: biology or nature is inherently social and has no pure or natural 'origin' outside culture. Being the raw material of social and cultural organization, it is subject to the endless rewriting and inscription that constitute all sign systems. Grosz demonstrates that the theories of, among others, Freud and Lacan theorize a male body. She then turns to corporeal experiences unique to women--menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, menopause--to lay the groundwork for new theories of sexed corporeality."--Back cover.

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Indiana University Press

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0253208629

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9780253208620

Seduced by Modernity

The Photography of Margaret Watkins

By: Mary Elizabeth O'Connor,Katherine Tweedie

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Seduced by Modernity

The Photography of Margaret Watkins

By: Mary Elizabeth O'Connor,Katherine Tweedie

A richly illustrated and vivid account of the life and work of an important Canadian modernist photographer.

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351

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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077353119X

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9780773531192

George Gilfillan: Letters and Journals, with Memoir

By: George Gilfillan,Robert Addison Watson,Elizabeth Sopia Watson

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George Gilfillan: Letters and Journals, with Memoir

By: George Gilfillan,Robert Addison Watson,Elizabeth Sopia Watson

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Wentworth Press

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0526947608

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9780526947607

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Space, Time and Perversion

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Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking

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Volatile Bodies

Volatile Bodies

Seduced by Modernity

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George Gilfillan: Letters and Journals, with Memoir

George Gilfillan: Letters and Journals, with Memoir

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