1. Introduction -- 2. Learning to speak Australian -- 3. Feminism and femocrats -- 4. Women, the state, and your complexion -- 5. The uses of power: a case study of Equal Employment Opportunity implementation -- 6. Harvard and New South Wales: feminists in the interstices -- 7. The case for feminist optimism -- 8. Reconstructing the family -- 9. Gender as a category of analysis