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International Review Of Women And Leadership: Special Issue, Volume 2 Number 1: Women And Politics, Marian Sawer
International Review Of Women And Leadership: Special Issue, Volume 2 Number 1: Women And Politics, Marian Sawer
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This year is the 75th anniversary of the election of Edith Cowan to the Western Australian parliament, the first woman to be elected to an Australian parliament. It is highly appropriate that the International Review of Women and Leadership should commemorate this anniversary with a special issue dedicated to women and politics. This has enabled us to use Edith Cowan's experience of parliamentary politics as a prism through which to examine continuing dilemmas of women's representation in public life - including concepts of women's interests, equality and difference, separatism versus integration and independence versus partisanship...