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Questioning Women's Movement 'Strategies': Australian Activism on Work and Care

Andrew, Merrindahl

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Women's movements are often described as adopting "strategies" but studies rarely question how and to what extent movement decisions are actually made. This case study considers the Australian second-wave women's movement's "choice" to pursue workforce participation over care-centred approaches. It finds that the movement was too diverse and decentralized to make any such collective strategic decision. Action was geared to growing the movement and expressing the concerns of the women involved,...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorAndrew, Merrindahl
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-10T22:20:10Z
dc.identifier.issn1072-4745
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/51812
dc.description.abstractWomen's movements are often described as adopting "strategies" but studies rarely question how and to what extent movement decisions are actually made. This case study considers the Australian second-wave women's movement's "choice" to pursue workforce participation over care-centred approaches. It finds that the movement was too diverse and decentralized to make any such collective strategic decision. Action was geared to growing the movement and expressing the concerns of the women involved, not forming political platforms. Nevertheless, a pragmatic strand emerged, in which some groups took significant pro-work decisions to counter the risk of reinforcing traditional sex roles.
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.sourceSocial Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society
dc.titleQuestioning Women's Movement 'Strategies': Australian Activism on Work and Care
dc.typeJournal article
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.citationvolume15
dc.date.issued2008
local.identifier.absfor200205 - Culture, Gender, Sexuality
local.identifier.absfor160601 - Australian Government and Politics
local.identifier.ariespublicationu9204672xPUB232
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationAndrew, Merrindahl, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.bibliographicCitation.issue3
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage369
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage395
local.identifier.doi10.1093/sp/jxn012
dc.date.updated2015-12-09T08:44:33Z
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-51849130004
local.identifier.thomsonID000259207300005
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