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The Real Matilda

Woman and Identity in Australia, 1788 to the Present

By: Miriam Dixson

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The Real Matilda

Woman and Identity in Australia, 1788 to the Present

By: Miriam Dixson

The Real Matilda book investigates the Australian experience of women in colonial times, and asks how far Australians have moved beyond formative influences - elites, convicts, the Irish - which have led to discriminatory attitudes towards women.

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UNSW Press

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0868407372

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The Imaginary Australian

Anglo-Celts and Identity, 1788 to the Present

By: Miriam Dixson

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The Imaginary Australian

Anglo-Celts and Identity, 1788 to the Present

By: Miriam Dixson

Examination of the nature of Australian national identity; includes reference to Aborigines discussed in terms of violence, racism, guilt, remorse and memory; questions the characterisation of race relations through forgetting and silence (Stanner) and violence (Rowley); argues that simplified historical narratives about race relations impede reparative energy in race relations; psychological understanding of racism; theories of the nation; crisis of history and time in Australia and its impact on identity.

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228

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UNSW Press

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0868406651

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9780868406657

Windows of Opportunity

How Women Seize Peace Negotiations for Political Change

By: Miriam J. Anderson

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Windows of Opportunity

How Women Seize Peace Negotiations for Political Change

By: Miriam J. Anderson

In 1915, women from over thirty countries met in The Hague to express opposition to World War I and propose ways to end it. The delegates made three demands: for women to be present at all international peace conferences, a women's-only peace conference to be convened alongside any official negotiations, and the establishment of universal suffrage. While these demands went unmet at the time, contemporary women's groups continue to seek participation in peace negotiations and to have language promoting gender equality inserted into all peace agreements. Between 1975 and 2011 about 40% of all conflicts that produced peace agreements resulted in at least one with references to women. Many of these clauses addressed compensation for wartime gender-based violence and guarantees for women's participation in the post-conflict transitional period. Others included electoral quotas and changes to inheritance legislation. Curiously, the language used to address women is near consistent across these agreements, and that is because it reflects international women's rights norms rather than more local norms. Why is it that though a peace agreement's primary objective is to end conflict, some include potentially controversial provisions about gender that might delay or complicate reaching an agreement? Why do these provisions echo international norms rather than local, cultural ones? And which factors make it more likely that women's rights will appear in peace agreements? Windows of Opportunity answers these questions by examining peace negotiations in Burundi, Macedonia, and Northern Ireland along with 195 peace agreements signed between 1975 and 2011. It looks at the key actors involved in lobbying for women's participation, along with their motivations, objectives, and strategies. It also explores the reasons for similarities among the gender provisions.

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Oxford University Press

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0190493429

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9780190493424

The Real Matilda

Woman and Identity in Australia, 1788 to the Present

By: Miriam Dixson

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Woman and Identity in Australia, 1788 to the Present

By: Miriam Dixson

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The Imaginary Australian

Anglo-Celts and Identity, 1788 to the Present

By: Miriam Dixson

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Anglo-Celts and Identity, 1788 to the Present

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The Real Matilda

The Real Matilda

The Imaginary Australian

The Imaginary Australian

Windows of Opportunity

Windows of Opportunity

The Real Matilda

The Real Matilda

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