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100 1 _aThornton, Margaret.
245 1 0 _aSex Discrimination in Uncertain Times.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aCanberra :
_bANU Press,
_c2010.
264 4 _c©2010.
300 _a1 online resource (406 pages)
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505 0 _aPreliminary -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Preface -- Part I. A Silver Anniversary -- Opening Address I. Dr Helen Watchirs OAM -- Opening Address II. Hon. Susan Ryan AO -- Opening Address III. Chris Ronalds AM, SC -- Part II. Then and Now -- 1. The Sex Discrimination Act and its Rocky Rite of Passage. Margaret Thornton and Trish Luker -- 2. A Radical Prequel: Historicising the Concept of Gendered Lawin Australia. Ann Genovese -- 3. Women's Work is Never Done: The Pursuit of Equality and the Commonwealth Sex Discrimination Act. Marian Sawer -- 4. 'To Demand Equality is to Lack Ambition': Sex discrimination Legislation-Contexts and Contradictions. Susan Magarey -- Part III. Critiquing the SDA -- 5. The Sex Discrimination Act at 25: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future. Beth Gaze -- 6. The Sex Discrimination Act: Advancing Gender Equality and Decent Work? Sara Charlesworth -- 7. Reproducing Discrimination: Promoting the Equal Sharing of Caring Work in CEDAW, at the ILO and in the SDA. Caroline Lambert -- Part IV. Equivocations of Equality -- 8. Equality Unmodified? Reg Graycar and Jenny Morgan -- 9. And Which 'Equality Act' Would that Be? Simon Rice -- 10. Rethinking the Sex Discrimination Act: Does Canada's Experience Suggest we Should give our Judges a Greater Role? Belinda Smith -- 11. Equality as a Basic Human Right: Choice and Responsibility. Archana Parashar -- Part V. Women's Rights as Human Rights -- 12. Raising Women Up: Analysing Australian Advocacy for Women's Rights under International and Domestic Law. Susan Harris Rimmer -- 13. Can We Feminise Human Rights? Margaret Thornton -- 14. Sex, Race and Questions of Aboriginality. Irene Watson and Sharon Venne -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Index.
520 _aThis collection of essays arose from a conference held to mark the silver anniversary of the Australian Sex Discrimination Act (1984).
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aSex discrimination--Law and legislation--Australia.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aThornton, Margaret
_tSex Discrimination in Uncertain Times
_dCanberra : ANU Press,c2010
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