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The Women's Movement and Government
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Sawer, Marian Jamieson, Gwendolyn Gray |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Description | Some scholars have suggested that institutionalisation and professionalisation of women's movement organisations leads to 'feminist fading'. This article examines whether such propositions hold true for the Australian women's movement. It maps changes in the women's movement that had emerged by the 1990s, including increased diversity and increased national and international networking as well as increased institutionalisation. It finds that loss of political influence has less to do with institutionalisation than with a changed discursive environment that constructed the welfare state and women's reliance on it as a problem. Nonetheless, women's movement institutions have continued to sustain feminist values and engage in differently organised but effective campaigns. A case study of the women's health movement in Victoria shows how it succeeded in having abortion removed from the criminal code in 2008. Repertoire had changed since the 1970s but the goal remained the same. |
| Related Links | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/08164649.2014.971695?needAccess=true |
| Ending Page | 418 |
| Page Count | 16 |
| Starting Page | 403 |
| ISSN | 08164649 |
| e-ISSN | 14653303 |
| DOI | 10.1080/08164649.2014.971695 |
| Journal | Australian Feminist Studies |
| Issue Number | 82 |
| Volume Number | 29 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2014-10-02 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: Australian Feminist Studies Cultural Studies Women's Movement and Government |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Gender Studies |
