Historical reconsiderations IV: The politics of respectability: Identifying the masculinist context

Women, gender and history

“…It is time that gender became a central category of all historical analysis.' 1 The same sort of distinction was drawn, at about the same time, by Jill Matthews in her article 'Feminist History'. She argued that 'whereas subject matter is central to women's history ... what is central to feminist history is the recognition of gender relations as a major power dynamic within history'.…”

Globalization and Social Transformation in the Asia-Pacific

“…For one, it was a fledgling liberal democracy committed to the rule of law, limited and accountable government, and significant church-state separation. It also was a predominantly Protestant, working-class and masculine society (Crotty, 2001;Lake, 1986Lake, , 1997. Above all, the new Australian state was a self-defined ethnic nation.…”

Mum's got a whirlpool: Abject bodies and the regulation of maternity

“…Traditionally, masculine identity was universalised by tropes of nation, and this was defined as that which femininity is not. 2 Appropriately then, it was regarded that the postwar responsibility of men was to house and give form to passive maternal bodies.…”