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221Gender, Metaphor and the StateFeminist Review 52 (1): 118-134. 1996.The neo-liberal upsurge of the last twenty years and the neo-liberal case against the welfare state has gained much of its emotional force from a sub-text which is highly gendered. Whereas social liberalism had contained the promise of more autonomy within the private sphere and more caring values in the public sphere, neo-liberalism depicts the results of social liberalism as a loss of self reliance – through ‘over-protection’ by the state in the public sphere and usurpation of male roles in th…Read more
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11The Ethical State?: Social Liberalism in AustraliaMelbourne Univ. Publishing. 2003.The ethical state-a state committed to the common good and equal opportunity-was a central tenet of the social-liberal theory that emerged in Britain in the late nineteenth century. Here, Marian Sawer explores how the new nation of Australia enthusiastically embraced the ideal. Translated as the 'fair go', and accepted by major policy makers on both the left and right of politics, social liberalism gave rise to the distinctively Australian institution of wage arbitration, and to other aspects of…Read more
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646Australia : the fall of the femocratIn Joyce Outshoorn & Johanna Kantola (eds.), Changing state feminism, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 20--40. 2007.
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Marxism and the Question of the Asiatic Mode of ProductionScience and Society 43 (4): 493-495. 1979.
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15Plekhanov on Russian History: A Marxist Approach to Historical PluralismScience and Society 39 (3). 1975.
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