Table of Contents

Preface Sarah Maddison and Marian Sawer 1. Finding the women’s movement Marian Sawer 2. Disruption, continuity and waves in the feminist movement Drude Dahlerup 3. Discursive politics: Changing the talk and raising expectations Sarah Maddison 4. Taking to the streets Catherine Strong and Kirsty McLaren 5. Hiding in plain sight: Women’s advocacy organisations Marian Sawer and Merrindahl Andrew 6. The institutional harvest: Women’s services and women’s policy agencies Merrindahl Andrew 7. Role models and roller derby: Feminism and popular culture Catherine Strong and Sarah Maddison 8. Blogging and the women’s movement: New feminist networks Frances Shaw 9. Slut walking: Where is the next generation of feminists? Sarah Maddison 10. Global feminist organising: Identifying patterns of activism Myra Marx Ferree and Christina Ewig Appendix: How, what and why Merrindahl Andrew, Kirsty McLaren, Frances Shaw and Catherine Strong

About the Author

Sarah Maddison is Associate Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia


Marian Sawer is Emeritus Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.