| Description |
1 online resource (x, 156 pages : colour illustrations) |
| Contents |
I. Looking back: on beginning -- 1. From women's history to women's policy : pathways and partnerships / Alison Mackinnon -- II. Strategic interventions and exchanges : reflections and applications of the 'what's the problem represented to be?' approach -- 2. Introducing the 'what's the problem represented to be?' approach / Carol Bacchi -- 3. Women, policy and politics : recasting policy studies / Susan Goodwin -- 4. Spaces between : elaborating the theoretical underpinnings of the 'WPR' approach and its significance for contemporary scholarship / Angelique Bletsas -- 5. Digging deeper : the challenge of problematising 'inclusive development' and 'disability mainstreaming' / Nina Marshall -- 6. Answering Bacchi : a conversation about the work and impact of Carol Bacchi in teaching, research and practice in public health / John Coveney and Christine Putland -- 7. Located subjects: the daily lives of policy workers / Zöe Gill -- III. Strategic exchanges : the wider context -- 8. Making politics fleshly : the ethic of social flesh / Chris Beasley and Carol Bacchi -- 9. Post-structural comparative politics : acknowledging the political effects of research / Malin Rönnblom -- IV. Looking forward : still engaged -- 10. Strategic interventions and ontological politics: research as political practice / Carol Bacchi |
| Summary |
This book illuminates, commemorates, and builds upon Bacchis WPR approach. It outlines the trajectory of the development of the WPR approach from Bacchis early engagements with feminist thinking, as an academic in scholarly environments which were often the preserve of men, towards the theoretical sophistication of an approach which requires an ongoing critical assessment of assumptions about the social world, social problems, policy agendas deemed to respond to those problems, and the researchers positioning |
| Analysis |
'WPR' approach' |
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'What's the problem represented to be?' approach |
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Gender studies |
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Politics |
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Social flesh |
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Strategic interventions |
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Women's policy |
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Carol Bacchi |
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1948 |
| Notes |
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Also issued in print |
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System requirements: Adobe Reader required to view/print PDF files |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Bacchi, Carol Lee, 1948-
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Bacchi, Carol Lee.
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Feminism -- Congresses.
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Feminist theory -- Congresses.
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Feminism.
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Feminist theory.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Beasley, Chris, editor
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Bletsas, Angelique, editor
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University of Adelaide Press, issuing body
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| LC no. |
2012453608 |
| ISBN |
0987171852 |
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0987171860 |
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