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ItemThe perils and pitfalls of formal equality in australian family law reformFehlberg, B ; Sarmas, L ; Morgan, J (SAGE Publications, 2018-01-01)In this paper, we identify the influence of formal equality—and more specifically, formal gender equality (that is, treating men and women the same)—in central areas of major Australian family law reform over the past 20 years. Given the influence of formal equality and our concerns regarding this trend, we consider whether equality-based arguments should be abandoned entirely, at least in the family law context, and explore alternative approaches that could reframe the debate.
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ItemHow are gender inequality and violence against women related? Findings from a population-level community attitudes surveyWebster, K ; Ward, A ; Diemer, K ; Flood, M ; Honey, N ; Morgan, J ; Politof, V ; Powell, A ; Stubbs, J (WILEY, 2021-09)Abstract Low support for gender equality (GE) predicts attitudes supporting violence against women (VAW). However, little is known about the influence of attitudes toward different manifestations of GE. This study extends knowledge by assessing the relative strength of attitudes to GE across seven theoretically derived dimensions, and their association with attitudes toward VAW. 17,542 Australians participated in the 2017 National Community Attitudes Towards Violence Against Women Survey. Population means were calculated for the following scales formed from survey questions: the Community Attitudes Supportive of Violence Against Women Scale (CASVAWS), the Gender Equality Attitudes Scale (GEAS) and measures within the GEAS representing the theoretical dimensions. There was variation in support for GE between the measures. The lower the support for GE, the higher the support for VAW. Although all GEAS measures included in regression modelling contributed to variance in the CASVAWS, two accounted for more than half. The study suggests benefits in using a multidimensional model of GE to mitigate cultural support for VAW, with emphasis on the private sphere and countering hostility toward women and rigid gender roles and identities.
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ItemPriggish, Pitiless, and Punitive or Proud, Passionate, and Purposeful? Dichotomies, Sexual Harassment, and "Victim-Feminism"Morgan, J (UNIV TORONTO PRESS INC, 2005)Australia's version of the popular genre of the "victim-feminism" debate played out via a case of sexual harassment in a university college, in which two young women alleged that they had been sexually harassed by the master [chief executive officer] of their college. This event became much more than a matter of parochial interest when one of Australia's best-known novelists decided to write a book about it. The book generated enormous media attention, though this was often very polarized and not very useful in furthering our understanding of sexual harassment. However, there was some interesting debate in the wake of the book that did manage to transcend the dichotomy of "power" versus "powerlessness." La version australienne du débat populaire du « féminisme de victimisation » s'est déroulée par le biais d'un cas de harcèlement sexuel dans un collège universitaire, dans lequel deux jeunes femmes ont allégué avoir été harcelées sexuellement par le maître [p. d.g.] de leur collège. Cet événement a eu une portée qui déborde largement son lieu d'origine lorsque l'une des romancières les plus connues en Australie a décidé d'écrire un livre à ce sujet. Le livre a été trèsmédiatisé, bien que les reportages aient été souvent très polarisés et sans grande utilité pour approfondir notre compréhension du harcèlement sexuel. Il y a eu, néanmoins, dans la foulée de la publication du livre, un débat intéressant qui a réussi à transcender la dichotomie du « pouvoir » face à « l'impuissance ».
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ItemTHE POWER OF STORYTELLING: A QUEST FOR A PUBLIC DISCOURSE ON SEXUAL HARASSMENTMorgan, J (SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2005-09)This article explores the possible reasons for the absence of a public discourse about sexual harassment in Australia, which can be contrasted with a relatively well-developed legal discourse. It also briefly compares the debate about sexual harassment in the United States and Australia that followed in the wake of controversial and very public sexual harassment cases in each country. It argues that the debate in the wake of the Clarence Hill-Anita Thomas hearings in the United States was much more productive than the debate in Australia after the publication of Helen Garner’s book, The First Stone. The discussion in Australia focused on whether the young women in the case had ‘over-reacted’ and whether there were generational differences in women’s reactions to sexual harassment. The more interesting (and I would argue, far more important) questions of what is sexual harassment is and what are its effects were ignored. This article goes on to explore one aspect of what sexual harassment is and does by examining what women actually do in response to sexual harassment through an analysis of some of the stories of targets of harassment as they appear in the law reports. In this way it tries to make some of the legal discourse about sexual harassment a part of the public discourse about the phenomenon.
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ItemEquality Rights: What’s Wrong?Graycar, R ; Morgan, J ; Hunter, R (Hart Publishing, 2008-01-01)
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ItemFeminist legal theory and understandings of equality: One step foward and two steps back?Graycar, R ; MORGAN, J ( 2006)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableEquality and discrimination: Understanding contextMORGAN, JJ ( 2004)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableLaw reform: What's in it for women?GRAYCAR, R ; MORGAN, JJ ( 2005)