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Making women count : a history of the Women's Electoral Lobby / Marian Sawer with Gail Radford.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sawer, Marian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women's rights--Australia--History.
- Women's rights.
- Women--Australia--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Women's Electoral Lobby--History.
- Women's Electoral Lobby.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (332 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Sydney : UNSW Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "This is the first full-scale history of the Women's Electoral Lobby in Australia, which burst onto the scene of federal politics in 1972. It assesses WEL's significance as a policy actor and its attempts to shape public agenda, as well as the meaning of WEL for those involved and its impact on their lives. WEL is the women's organisation most often referred to in parliament and the media."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The birth of WEL
- Shifting frames
- Organisational dilemmas
- Working the media
- Making government women-friendly
- Economic and social policy
- New horizons
- Part of a continuous women's movement?
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p.301-308) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-74223-059-8
- OCLC:
- 647833031
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