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dc.contributor.authorKeddie, Amanda
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:35:10Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:35:10Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.date.modified2010-06-09T07:34:50Z
dc.identifier.issn03116999
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/30769
dc.description.abstractThis paper tracks the development of gender equity and schooling policy in Australia from the National Policy on the Education of Girls in 1987, to current policy concerns with boys' educational underperformance. The paper's key focus is on the ways in which feminist informed equity policy has been undermined by broader imperatives of economic rationalism and anti-feminist discourses. Drawing on Nancy Fraser's understandings of distributive and cultural gender justice and her notion of a nonidentitarian feminist politics, the paper critically examines the ways in which such imperatives have re-articulated equity and schooling concerns. Through these lenses, the limitations of the affirmative gender binary politics and remedies that have dominated gender and schooling reform in Australia are highlighted. The paper concludes with an illumination of the gender justice spaces currently being mobilised in Australian schools. Such spaces, it is argued, fostered within a context of increasing autonomy and self-management for schools, are providing avenues for creative and disruptive (pro)feminist activism.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAustralian Association for Research in Education
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.publisher.urihttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03216897
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom21
dc.relation.ispartofpageto38
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAustralian Educational Researcher
dc.relation.ispartofvolume36
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchGender, Sexuality and Education
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEducation
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode130308
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode13
dc.titleNational gender equity and schooling policy in Australia: struggles for a non-identitarian feminist politics
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Education and Professional Studies
gro.rights.copyright© 2009 Australian Association for Research in Education . This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal website for access to the definitive, published version.
gro.date.issued2009
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gro.griffith.authorKeddie, Amanda


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