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This article offers a historical account of the changing politics of abortion in Australia in the late 1960s and early-mid 1970s. The article first focuses on women’s personal stories of se...

Recent feminist scholarship about abortion in Australia has focused on the politics of abortion as it is played out in the law, the media, public discourse and political debate. This article seeks to offer new angles on the politics of abortion by focusing on the provision of abortion services and in particular the position of doctors in relation to abortion in Australia since the early 1990s. It crafts a theoretical framework to think about the place of doctors, and their patients, in abortion provision and sketches a history of doctors over the last two decades. It is based in a small interview project conducted by the author in 2013 and uses interviews to supplement documentary evidence with ‘inside information’ about local histories and the micro-politics of decision-making in order to build an account of the multifaceted position of doctors in relation to abortion. It also uses the interviews to build a picture of the subjectivity of doctors who play a crucial part in the provision of abortio...

This response to Hester Eisenstein's article focuses on the question of religion. In the section of her article under the heading ‘Islamophobia and the Global War on Terror’ Eisenstein joins other ...

Delivered at the ‘Manifesting Literary Feminisms’ conference in Melbourne, December 2008. My qualification to speak, and now write, about Sue and her contribution to feminist scholarship is multi-s...