Setting the agenda for rural women
Subtitle: research directions : conference proceedings and recommendations
By: edited by Rowan O'Hagan, Margaret Alston, and Shelley Spriggs.
Contributors: O'Hagan, Rowan.; Alston, Margaret.; Spriggs, Shelley.; Charles Sturt University. Centre for Rural Social Research.
Publisher: Centre for Rural Social Research
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Wagga Wagga, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Rural women -- Australia -- Congresses.; Rural women -- Australia -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Selected papers presented at a conference held July 15-17, 2002 at Charles Sturt University, Wagga, Wagga, N.S.W.
"'Setting the Agenda for Rural Women : Research Directions' Conference [held at] Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW, 15-17 July, 2002" -- p. 6.
Table of contents: title: Australian rural women: mainstreaming the agenda - 2. Strategies for getting women back on centre stage / Fiona Haslam McKenzie; title: 3. Wishing well and crystal ball / Cathy McGowan; title: 4. Recovering our strength and cultural voice: indigenous women in rural Australian communities engaging with rural Australia / Tjanara Goreng Goreng; title: Stories and story telling: a cultural partnership between Museum Victoria and the Victorian women on farms gatherings / Liza Dale; title: Rural women, family violence and the New South Wales AVO scheme: aboriginal women speak out / Elizabeth Moore; title: Full circle? Reflections on a decade of involvement in feminist research in rural social contexts / Margaret Grace; title: Putting the theory into practice: a description of a feminist research project in rural sociology / Barbara Pini; title: Rural women's use of new communication and information technologies: is it supporting learning on natural resource management? / Jenny Bellamy, et al; title: A review of the status of women in rural, regional and remote Australia: identifying leadership strategy successes and challenges / Fiona Haslam McKenzie; title: Obscuring potential alternatives: how traditional ideology influences expectations of and for women in a rural community / Kerri Whittenbury; title: Recognising and valuing women in developing policy for community capacity building: a focus on the interplay between leadership and social capital / Rachael Williams; title: Female general practitioners and the sustainability of rural general practice services / Noela Lippert; title: The Mill & the Mount: rural women in community economic development / Anna Macgarvey and Kevin O'Toole; title: Growing women through the "grass ceiling" / Sonia Muir.