Watch that gap: reflections on the struggle for equality
Document Type
Journal Article
Publisher
Forum on Public Policy
Place of Publication
Urbana IL, USA
Faculty
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
School
School of Psychology and Social Science
RAS ID
6282
Abstract
Is there a difference between women's struggle for equality with men, and the according of full human status to women? This paper considers the discourses available to Australian feminist activist Patricia Jessie Giles when working to develop policy in the international arena in the context of Luce Irigaray's insistence that policy work must be accompanied by philosophical work, and that, in order to accord full human status to women, we must find a place for woman philosophically. In so doing, the paper begins a conversation about ways to negotiate that mysterious gap between hope and happening that is so often the stuff of policy change.
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Comments
Hopkins, L. (2008, March). Watch that gap: reflections on the struggle for equality. In Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table. Forum on Public Policy.
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