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Item[Review of the book Knowing women: origins of women's education in nineteenth-century Australia](Cambridge University Press, 1997)The article reviews the book "Knowing Women: Origins of Women's Education in Nineteenth-Century Australia" by Marjorie Theobald.
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Item[Review of the book Solidarity of strangers: feminism after identity politics]( 1997)Solidarity of Strangers takes up one of the key problematics of contemporary politics, contemporary social theory and contemporary feminism. Once difference is adequately acknowledged, once the critiques of universalism and essentialism are taken on board, what forms of politics and association remain?
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Item[Review of the book The male in the head: young people, heterosexuality and power]( 1998)The Male in the Head is an account of how young people in England construct heterosexual sexual relationships, and an argument that the process, for both women and men, is controlled by male interests. The book is based on two major interview projects carried out in London and Manchester between 1989 and 1992 and these, in turn, arose out of a concern to investigate ‘risk-taking’ in sexual relationships in the wake of concerns about AIDS. The authors argue that the privileging of male bodily pleasure and the lack of a speaking space for an ‘independent female sexuality’ not only reproduces the power inequalities of men and women, but contributes to a culture of sexuality in which ‘safe sex’ is difficult to consistently enact.