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Dr Carol Bacchi

Telephone +61 8 8303 4548
Position Professor
Email carol.bacchi@adelaide.edu.au
Fax +61 8 8303 3443
Building Napier
Floor/Room 4 10
Campus North Terrace
Org Unit Politics / History and Politics, School of

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Research Interests

  • Feminist political theory
  • policy theory
  • equality policy, including affirmative/positive action, diversity management, and mainstreaming
  • public policy and ethics; health policy with a particular focus on health inequalities
  • drug and gambling policy
  • citizenship theory, focussing on 'difference' and embodiment
  • global governance and citizenship

Publications

For a full listing of Carol Bacchi's publications, please see attached document.

Books

  1. Fear of Food: A Diary of Mothering. Spinifex, 2003.
  2. (coedited with Paul Nursey-Bray) Left Directions: is there a Third Way? UWA Press, 2001.
  3. Women, Policy and Politics: the construction of policy problems. Sage, 1999.

Chapters in Books

  1. 'Arguing for and against quotas: theoretical issues' in Drude Dahlerup (ed.) Gender Quotas in Politics-a Key to Equality? New York, Routledge, 2005.
  2. [with Chris Beasley] 'Biotechnology and the limits of an ethic of care' in Margrit Shildrick and Roxanne Mytikiuk (eds) Rethinking Feminist Bioethics. MIT Press, 2005.
  3. 'The Practice of Affirmative Action Policies: explaining resistances and how these affect results' in I. Boerefijn, F. Coomans, J. Goldschmidt, R. Holtmatt, and R. Wolleswinkel (eds) Temporary Special Measures: Accelerating De Facto Equality of Women Under Article 4(1) UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, Oxford, Intersentia, 2003, pp. 75-95.

Journal Articles

  1. [with Chris Beasley] 'The Limits of Trust and Respect: Rethinking Dependency', Social Alternatives, Vol 24, No 4, 2005, pp. 55-60
  2. [with Joan Eveline] 'What are we mainstreaming when we mainstream gender?', International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 7, No. 4, forthcoming December 2005.
  3. 'Affirmative Action for Men: "A Test of Common Sense?"', Just Policy, Vol 36, March 2005, pp. 5-12.

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Entry last updated: Saturday, 3 May 2008

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