Bibliography: p. [204]-217.

Includes index.

Contents:
Chapter 1: Political science, women and feminism / Marian Simms -- Chapter 2: Black Sisterhood: the situation of urban Aboriginal women and their relationship to the white women's movement / Meredith Burgmann -- Chapter 3: Losing the numbers game: women, tokenism and power / Jocelyn Clarke -- Chapter 4: Women, feminism and the political process / Robyn Walmsley -- Chapter 5: Labor women: political housekeepers or politicians? / Robin Joyce -- Chapter 6: the Parliamentary wife: participant in the 'two-person single career' / Rosemary Whip -- Chapter 7: 'Women candidates speak' / Marian Sawer -- Chapter 8: Women and women's issues in the 1980 federal elections / Marian Sawer -- Chapter 9: 'A woman's place is in the House and in the Senate': women and the 1983 elections / Marian Simms -- Chapter 10: The politics of the National Women's Advisory Council / Lyndsay Connors -- Chapter 11: The employment of women in the Commonwealth Public Service: the creation and reproduction of a dual labour market / Desley Deacon -- Chapter 12: Psychoanalysis and feminist social theory of gender / Merle Thornton -- Chapter 13: 'Law reform and human reproduction': implications for women / Rebecca Albury -- Chapter 14: A theory of justice and love: Rawls on the family / Deborah Kearns.