The Politics of Gender Equality

Chapter 1 In the Frame: Women and the Discursive Construction of Gender Equality in Theory and Practice

Chapter 2 Great Hopes: “Second-Wave” Feminism and the State, from Whitlam to Fraser (1972–1983)

Chapter 3 Labor’s Economic Rationalism: Women Under the Hawke and Keating Governments (1983–1996)

Chapter 4 Defending the Mainstream, Women and Neoliberalism Under the Howard Government (1996–2007)

Chapter 5 Social Democracy, the “Fair Go” and Gender Wars: Women Under the Rudd and Gillard Governments (2007–2013)

Chapter 6 Framing a Business Case for Equality: Women Under the Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison Governments (2013–2022)

Chapter 7 Unfinished Business: The Albanese Government and Gender Equality Policy (2022–?)

Chapter 8 Gender Equality and the Failure of Political Imagination: Lessons for Reframing in Uncertain Times