This timely and incisive book brings a theoretical lens to the debates around affirmative action. It presents a comparative analysis of those countries reputed to be leading the way in policies for women - the United States, Canada, Australia, Sweden, The Netherlands and Norway.
Carol Lee Bacchi draws upon curre
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`This book makes a major contribution to an issue of central concern to feminists. It is well written, thoroughly researched and thoughtfully argued. Wide-ranging and comprehensive in scope, the book is carefully structured, using different countries to illustrate the specific ways in which affirmative action is co-opted and contained in practice′ - Jeanne Gregory, Middlesex University
`Affirmative action, as a means of increasing access to education, jobs and public life, is under attack internationally. Carol Bacchi′s illuminating analysis of policies for women in Australia, Canada, The Netherlands , Norway, Sweden, and the United States over the past twenty years reframes the debate by raising new questions - about citizenship; the politics of identity; the category of "women"; and the continued resistance of traditional system to women′s claims. Bacchi′s argument about the political uses of categories will engage readers across a broad spectrum from poststructuralist to empiricists, and from policy-makers to activists′ - Hester Eisenstein, SUNY
`Bacchi takes a social constructionist view of categories such as "women" and "men" and explores the political uses of such categories. By looking at affirmative action, a policy that attempts to advance women′s opportunity, in a variety of progressive national contexts, Bacchi takes only positive examples - yet shows the limits that such efforts face. For the many people who have wondered why affirmative action so often yields disappointing progress, Bacchi′s examinations are a goldmine of insights. The variety of her national cases combined with the subtlety of her analysis offers a rich and textured picture of how such helping policies become entangled in definitions of women as marginal, deficient, and needy people. This is deconstruction at its best′ - Myra Marx Ferree, University of Connecticut
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