Professor Emeritus Carol Bacchi

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.  Mainstreaming Politics: Gendering practices and feminist theory (with Joan Eveline), University of Adelaide Press, 2010. Free download (click here) 

2.  Analysing Policy: What’s the problem represented to be?  Pearson Education 2009.

3.  Fear of Food: A Diary of Mothering. Spinifex, 2003.

4.  (coedited with Paul Nursey-Bray) Left Directions: is there a Third Way? UWA Press, 2001.

5.  Women, Policy and Politics: the construction of policy problems. Sage, 1999.

Chapters in Books

1.  ‘The issue of intentionality in frame theory: The need for reflexive framing’ in Emanuela Lombardo, Petra Meier and Mieke Verloo (eds) The Discursive Politics of Gender Equality: Stretching, Bending and Policymaking, London, Routledge, 2009.

2.  'Arguing for and against quotas: theoretical issues' in Drude Dahlerup (ed.) Gender Quotas in Politics-a Key to Equality? New York, Routledge, 2005.

3.  [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.

4.  '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. 'Why Study Problematizations? Making Politics Visible', Open Journal of Political Science, Vol 2, No 1, pp. 1-8.  

2. ‘Challenging the Displacement of Affirmative Action by Gender Mainstreaming’, Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, Vol  15, No. 4, December 2009.

3.    ‘Gender Mainstreaming or Diversity Mainstreaming? The Politics of “Doing”’ (with Joan Eveline), NORA—Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, Vol 17, No 1, 2009, pp. 3-18.

4.    ‘The Politics of Research Management: reflections on the gap between what we “know” [about SDH] and what we do’, Health Sociology Review, Vol 17, No 2, 2008, pp. 165-176.

5.    [with Chris Beasley] 'The Limits of Trust and Respect: Rethinking Dependency', Social Alternatives, Vol 24, No 4, 2005, pp. 55-60

6.    [with Joan Eveline] 'What are we mainstreaming when we mainstream gender?', International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 7, No. 4, forthcoming December 2005.

7. 'Affirmative Action for Men: "A Test of Common Sense?"', Just Policy, Vol 36, March 2005, pp. 5-12.

 

Files

• Curriculum Vitae - BacchiCV.pdf [191.1K] (application/pdf)

Entry last updated: Saturday, 26 Jan 2013