Australia’s First Female Prime Minister and Gender Politics

Joseph, SA

Australia’s First Female Prime Minister and Gender Politics

Joseph, SA

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Citation:: 2014
Issue Date:: 2014-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Joseph, SA https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4978-6633	en_US
dc.date	2014-05-15	en_US
dc.date.issued	2014-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	2014	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/34223
dc.description.abstract	Book length or long form is where much of Australia’s literary journalism is sited. As such, this paper will examine three long form contributions to the recent Australian gender discourse garnered by the prime ministership of Julia Gillard. Julia Gillard was Australia’s 27th – and first female – prime minister. She came to office determined that gender had not – and would not – play a part in her tenure. She left office embroiled in a gender struggle of acts and words and images unimaginable before they occurred. The media, the Opposition, members of her own party and ordinary Australians took part in a collective denigration of her reputation professionally, politically and personally. It went on unabated for three years, growing in intensity, and only towards the end of her leadership, was it truly comprehensively contested in the public sphere; and then, mainly by women writers, writing in the long form. Between April and July, 2013, six texts appeared, all either written or edited by women, constellating the notions of gender during and in the wake of Prime Minister Gillard’s leadership. This paper will examine three of them, long form counterpoints to the popular and electronic media vilification of former Prime Minister Julia Gillard. In so doing, it will examine the usage of the words ‘sexism’ and ‘misogyny’ as they were applied in Australia throughout this time.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Literary Journalism: Local, Regional, National, Global	en_US
dc.title	Australia’s First Female Prime Minister and Gender Politics	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.location.activity	American University of Paris	en_US
utslib.for	1903 Journalism and Professional Writing	en_US
dc.location.activity	American University of Paris
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Creative Writing Program
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CPCE - Centre for Creative Practices and the Cultural Economy
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Abstract:

Book length or long form is where much of Australia’s literary journalism is sited. As such, this paper will examine three long form contributions to the recent Australian gender discourse garnered by the prime ministership of Julia Gillard. Julia Gillard was Australia’s 27th – and first female – prime minister. She came to office determined that gender had not – and would not – play a part in her tenure. She left office embroiled in a gender struggle of acts and words and images unimaginable before they occurred. The media, the Opposition, members of her own party and ordinary Australians took part in a collective denigration of her reputation professionally, politically and personally. It went on unabated for three years, growing in intensity, and only towards the end of her leadership, was it truly comprehensively contested in the public sphere; and then, mainly by women writers, writing in the long form. Between April and July, 2013, six texts appeared, all either written or edited by women, constellating the notions of gender during and in the wake of Prime Minister Gillard’s leadership. This paper will examine three of them, long form counterpoints to the popular and electronic media vilification of former Prime Minister Julia Gillard. In so doing, it will examine the usage of the words ‘sexism’ and ‘misogyny’ as they were applied in Australia throughout this time.

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