Sex discrimination in uncertain times
By: edited by Margaret Thornton
Publisher: ANU E Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Acton, A.C.T
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
ISBN-13: 9781921666773; 9781921666766
Subjects: Gender & the Law; Sex discrimination; LAW; Sex discrimination in employment; Sexism; Discrimination; Law and legislation
Description: "This collection of essays arose from a conference held to mark the silver anniversary of the Australian Sex Discrimination Act (1984). The collection has two aims: first; to honour the contributions of both the spirited individuals who valiantly fought for the enactment of the legislation against the odds, and those who championed the new law once it was passed; secondly, to present a stock-take of the Act within the changed socio-political environment of the 21st century."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.
Table of contents: title: Part I: A Silver Anniversary.; title: Opening Address I  -- Helen Watchirs; title: Opening Address II  -- Susan Ryan; title: Opening Address III  -- Chris Ronalds -- Part II:; title: Then and Now.; title: The Sex Discrimination Act and its Rocky Rite of Passage  -- Margaret Thornton and Trish Luker; title: A Radical Prequel: Historicising the Concept of Gendered Law in Australia  -- Ann Genovese; title: Women's Work is Never Done: The Pursuit of Equality and the Commonwealth Sex Discrimination Act  -- Marian Sawer; title: To Demand Equality is to Lack Ambition': Sex Discrimination Legislation--Contexts and Contradictions  -- Susan Magarey -- Part III:; title: Critiquing the SDA.; title: The Sex Discrimination Act at 25: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future  -- Beth Gaze; title: The Sex Discrimination Act: Advancing Gender Equality and Decent Work?  -- Sara Charlesworth; title: Reproducing Discrimination: Promoting the Equal Sharing of Caring Work in CEDAW, at the ILO and in the SDA  -- Caroline Lambert -- Part IV:; title: Equivocations of Equality.; title: Equality Unmodified?  -- Reg Graycar and Jenny Morgan; title: And Which 'Equality Act' Would that Be?  -- Simon Rice; title: Rethinking the Sex Discrimination Act: Does Canada's Experience Suggest we should give our Judges  -- Belinda Smith; title: Equality as a Basic Human Right: Choice and Responsibility Archana Parashar -- -- Part V:; title: Women's Rights as Human Rights.; title: Raising Women Up: Analysing Australian Advocacy for Women's Rights under International and Domestic Law  -- Susan Harris Rimmer; title: Can We Feminise Human Rights?  -- Margaret Thornton; title: Sex, Race and Questions of Aboriginality -- Irene Watson and Sharon Venne.