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EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY PERTH WEST ERN AUSTRALIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Internationa{ t]?g.view ofWomen anti Leadership EDITOR IN CHIEF: Millicent Poole EDITORIAL ADDRESS: Journal Editor, JOURNAL EDITOR: International Review of Women and Leadership, Fiona Haslam McKenzie Edith Cowan University, Pearson Street, BOOK REVIEW EDITOR: Churchlands, Perth, Western Australia 6018, Nadine Henley Australia Telephone: 619 273 8781 EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: Facsimile: 61 9 273 8754 Yvonne Melotte Email: [email protected] Janice Bum World Wide Web Address: Sherry Saggers http:/ /www.cowan.edu.au/ dvc/irwl/ Glenda Campbell-Evans welcome.htm Linley Lord Nadine Henley Anyone wishing to submit material for Adrianne Kinnear publication should refer to the Notes for Janne Chung Contributors on the inside back cover. Linda Kris~anson SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS: International Review of Women and Leadership INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL BOARD: is published twice yearly in July and December by Edith Cowan University, Australia Pearson Street, Churchlands, Perth, Western Andrew Hede, University of the Sunshine Australia 6018, Australia. Coast , Queensland Catherine Smith, University of Newcastle, INFORMATION FOR SUBSCRIBERS: New South Wales New orders and sample copy requests should be addressed to the Journal Editor, Canada International Review of Women and Leadership, Nancy Adler, McGill University Edith Cowan University, Pearson Street, Ronald J Burke, York University Churchlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6018, Australia. Greece Athena Petraki Kottis, Athens University of Cheques should be made payable to Edith Economics and Business Cowan University. 1999 subscription prices (2 issues) are: Israel Dafna Izraeli, Bar Ilan University Individual: Au$ 60.00 Institution: Au $150.00 Student: Au$ 40.00 New Zealand Individual (Overseas): Au$ 100.00 US$ 75 Margaret Wilson, University of Waikato Institutions (Overseas): Au $200.00 US $125 Student (Overseas): Au $ 60.00 US $ 40 United Kingdom Marilyn Davidson, University of Manchester Cover Design: Kathy Barrett-Lennard Institute of Science and Technology © Copyright 1999 Edith Cowan University Jeff Hearn, University of Manchester Judi Marshall, University of Bath Printed and bound by Edith Cowan University, Australia United States of America Ellen Fagenson, George Mason University Kathy Kram, Boston University ISSN 1323-1685 Internationa[ ~view ofWomen ancf Leadersliip in collaboration with Centre for 2{esearcli on Women Special Issue1999 Contents SPECIAL EDITORS' INTRODUCTION i PREFACE iv PART 1 REMEMBERING WOMEN 1 1. Judith Wright and Oogeroo Noonuccal: Two women in search of 2 understanding Veronica Brady 2. Theodore and Brina: An exploration of the myths and secrets of family 8 life, 1851-1998. Terri-ann White PART 2 POLITICS AND PARTICIPATION 19 3. Suffrage, human rights and women's well-being: An interview with Pat 20 Giles. Judy Skene 4. Androgynes as non-citizens. 29 Felicity Haynes 5. Boys clubs: Discriminatory voting practices in agricultural industry 39 organisations. Fiona Haslam McKenzie PART 3 CONTEMPORARY ISSUES and VISIONS 53 6. Export processing zone style developments and the regulation of 54 Australian women's labour. Donella Caspersz 7. Changing the paradigm: Feminist interventions in revisioning the future 66 of eovernance. Lekkie Hopkins 8. Relationships in the healing century. 77 Marilyn Palmer International Review of Women and Leadership, Special Issue, 1999 International Review of Women and Leadership, Special Issue, 1999 Special Editors Introduction The centenary of women's suffrage in Western Australia in 1899 has presented many moments to reflect upon and evaluate women's experiences, to recognise and respond to the diversity of women's lives and concerns. This special issue of the International Review of Women and Leadership is one contribution to a year's activities marking that centenary. Millicent Poole's preface discusses the genesis of these papers in a successful series of seminars in 1998 hosted by the Centre for Research for Women which attested, each fortnight, to the energy, intellectual rigour and vibrancy of participants. Poole contextualises the seminar series by pointing out the gap which existed between the symbolically important granting of non-indigenous women's suffrage in Western Australia and federally (in 1902, and the broader participation of women in formal politics. While personally and socially circumscribed in their contributions to public life, figures such as Edith Cowan demonstrated women's commitments to issues relevant to women and to society at large. Most of the contributors to this special issue are engaging, in some way, with the perennial questions, - what has been achieved, and what still needs to be done to create the sort of society which values all of its citizens? On the eve of the centenary, some of Western Australia's best known as well as lesser known politicians and activists, writers and academics, addressed issues of current concern in the community; they looked back across the rich and difficult histories which led to the centenary; they surveyed current challenges to active citizenry; and they looked forward, envisioning possible futures and the alternate paths which may be pursued. Contributors to that series elicited lively discussion and debate, relating their views at times with humour, and at others with pathos, but always with a sense of the strong commitment they shared to women's voices being heard. The seminars as a whole then, functioned as a loose, ongoing series of 'conversations' between presenters and others, and, although not all participants are represented here, these contributions convey the diversity of interests, emphases, and voices which marked the series. This special issue is divided into three sections which reflect the preoccupations with readings of the past, contemporary society and the future among the participants. In Part 1, 'Remembering Women', each writer engages with pasts which bring us closer to the successes, sadness, determination and humanity of women in previous decades and centuries. Veronica Brady's interpretation of the relationship between Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Judith Wright is at once both a reflection on one close intellectual and personal friendship, and an exploration of the broader terms through which 'difference' may be negotiated in a society whose history and present has been characterised by intolerance and racism. Terri-ann White's deft weaving of family stories, of secrets and their revelation, presents a compelling and at times tragic account of the connections between women whose histories jostle and collide to touch the present. Both contributions may raise broader questions for the reader too, about the traditional, easy 'separation' between past and present which underlies most conventional history, but which may not serve to accommodate women's own stories, or the alternative modes in which they may be recalled. In Part 2, 'Politics and Participation', Judy Skene's interview with Patricia Giles, former Australian Labor Party senator and a committed activist in feminist and human rights issues, reveals the breadth of one woman's energy and achievement, as well as shedding light on the fascinating (and sometimes difficult), connections between personal and public International Review of Women and Leadership, Special Issue, 1999 life for individual women in Australia through the twentieth century. Readers will sense the echoes between the lives of Pat Giles and that of Edith Cowan, both for the obstacles they faced and the entwining of gender in the bigger political picture. Felicity Haynes' paper addresses issues of citizenship and participation from a different angle, examining the position of androgynous persons in Australian public life and exposing the ways in which exclusionary definitions and practices around sexuality and gender operate. This paper provides an infrequently heard voice in the contentious debate about what constitutes the categories 'woman' and 'man'. Exclusionary and discriminatory practices in voting and participation is not only evident within the arena of parliamentary politics and the sphere of formal