Crossing Boundaries

Barbara Caine is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Syndey. She was the first Director of the Women’s Studies Centre. Her main areas of interest are in the history of autobiography and biography and in the history of feminism. E.A. Grosz is an Australian philosopher, feminist theorist, and professor working in the U.S. She is Jean Fox O'Barr Women's Studies Distinguished Professor Emerita at Duke University, USA. Marie de Lepervanche is an Anthropologist. She taught at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Preface Part 1. Women and the sciences Introduction Marie de Lepervanche 1. Feminism and science E.A. Grosz and Marie de Lepervanche 2. Mathematics: a barrier for women? Mary Barnes 3. Biology, the popular weapon: sex differences in cognitive function Lesly Rogers Part 2: Women and the humanities Introduction E.A. Grosz 4. Towards a feminist philosophy of the body Moira Gatens 5. Polyandry, ‘pollution’, ‘prostitution’. The problems of eurocentrism and androcentrism in Polynesian studies Caroline Ralston 6. Feminist readings: the case of Christina Stead Susan Sheridan 7. The in(ter)vention of feminist knowledges E.A. Grosz Part 3: Women in Australia Introduction Marie de Lepervanche 8. The feminisation of poverty Bettina Cass 9. Equal pay, a family wage, or both? Ann Curthoys Part 4: Feminisms, feminist and forgotten women Introduction Barbara Caine 10. Pre­–World War I socialist feminism in Germany: homo economicus Carole E. Adams 11. Rose Scott’s vision: feminism and masculinity, 1880–1925 Judith Allen 12. Millicent Garrett Fawcett: a Victorian liberal feminist? Barbara Caine 13. Aileen Palmer’s second coming of age Judith Keene