Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Personal reflection
- Publisher's note
- List of authors and project personnel
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Gender/ing impact assessment: Can it be made to work?
- 2 Mainstreaming and neoliberalism: A contested relationship
- 3 Gender analysis and social change: Testing the water
- 4 What are we mainstreaming when we mainstream gender?
- 5 Approaches to gender mainstreaming: What's the problem represented to be?
- 6 Power, resistance and reflexive practice
- 7 Gender mainstreaming: The answer to the gender pay gap?
- 8 Gender analysis and community participation: The role of women's policy units
- 9 The invisibility of gendered power relations in domestic violence policy
- 10 Gender mainstreaming versus diversity mainstreaming: Methodology as emancipatory politics
- 11 University-public sector research collaboration: Mine the space, never mind the gap
- 12 Obeying organisational ‘rules of relevance’: Gender analysis of policy
- 13 Gender mainstreaming or diversity mainstreaming? The politics of ‘doing’
- Conclusion A politics of movement
- Author Index
- General Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Personal reflection
- Publisher's note
- List of authors and project personnel
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Gender/ing impact assessment: Can it be made to work?
- 2 Mainstreaming and neoliberalism: A contested relationship
- 3 Gender analysis and social change: Testing the water
- 4 What are we mainstreaming when we mainstream gender?
- 5 Approaches to gender mainstreaming: What's the problem represented to be?
- 6 Power, resistance and reflexive practice
- 7 Gender mainstreaming: The answer to the gender pay gap?
- 8 Gender analysis and community participation: The role of women's policy units
- 9 The invisibility of gendered power relations in domestic violence policy
- 10 Gender mainstreaming versus diversity mainstreaming: Methodology as emancipatory politics
- 11 University-public sector research collaboration: Mine the space, never mind the gap
- 12 Obeying organisational ‘rules of relevance’: Gender analysis of policy
- 13 Gender mainstreaming or diversity mainstreaming? The politics of ‘doing’
- Conclusion A politics of movement
- Author Index
- General Index
Summary
We decided to produce this compilation of articles, in the main published elsewhere, because we thought it worthwhile to reflect on developments in our thinking in connection with a large research project on gender analysis of policy. Over four years, as laid out in more detail in the Introduction, we were the Chief Investigators for an ARC-funded Linkage grant project to assist in the design of gender analysis procedures for the South Australian and Western Australian public sectors. In the lead-up to and over the course of the project (referred to as the Gender Analysis Project or GAP) we collaborated closely in the production of papers which became articles that traced the ‘learnings’ generated by the project. We are grateful to the various journal publishers for the opportunity to reprint these articles. Previously published articles are listed at the end of this preface.
Because the published articles necessarily include essential background information, there will inevitably be some repetition. Some themes also reappear in several chapters. We hope that this repetition does not prove onerous to readers. All articles were approved for publication by the relevant industry partners.
Reviewing the published material, and again in close collaboration, we decided that there was something to be learned from examining the themes developed in these articles and from considering how our specific theoretical backgrounds shaped these themes. In the process of undertaking this task we realised that some of the underlying theoretical premises that grounded these analyses might well be less visible to readers than to us.
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- Mainstreaming PoliticsGendering Practices and Feminist Theory, pp. ix - xPublisher: The University of Adelaide PressPrint publication year: 2010