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Article: National gender equity and schooling policy in Australia: struggles for a non-identitarian feminist politics.(Report)
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- Australian Educational Researcher
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- August 1, 2009
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Introduction
The significant ideological shifts in gender equity and schooling policies in Australia, over the past thirty or so years, have been variously described. For O'Donovan (2006), they constitute a move from feminist difference to masculinist crisis; for Gaskell and Taylor (2003), liberation and sexism to boys and social justice; and for Yates (1998) a progression from constructions of girls as disadvantaged, "other" and diverse to a focus on power, sex and gender. Reflecting developments in gender theory, research and politics these shifts have generated a range of different ways of understanding and remedying gender disadvantage. Such shifts and their ...