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<B>Chair: </B>Professor Meaghan Morris (USyd)<BR>
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<B>Title: </B>Revisiting “House and Home: Feminist Variations on a Theme” – Reflections on second wave feminist theory<BR>
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</B>In this essay Iris Young questions (second-wave) feminist ambivalence concerning the values of “house and home” in an historical context where, with the completion of the integration of women (as mothers) into the paid workforce, the gender division of labour has loosened its grip on social structure. This is a context where women and men face the challenge of being and becoming their own person, ‘an individual’. Young does not really broach this challenge, but she ends her essay with an invocation of ‘four normative values’ associated with house and home: safety, individuation, privacy, and preservation. I argue these values make sense only with reference to the conception of the subject as an individual, as a self, a conception that may be entangled in gender determinations but that is independent of them. It is as though in her exploration of feminist ambivalence with regard to a patriarchal order of house and home, Young leaves this order behind and ends up with an individualized order of house and home. Yet is clear that Young continues to think that sex difference is a fundamental ‘structural’ feature of human society. What she (and second wave feminism) opens up is the complex conjunction of individual freedom and the structural determination of femaleness. This indicates an account of freedom quite different from the liberal idea of choice or (as Hegel puts it) freedom from determination. I conclude the paper by arguing that this non-liberal idea of freedom has been inadequately developed in both feminist theory and feminist politics. <BR>
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<B>About the speaker:<BR>
</B>Professor Anna Yeatman is the Director of the Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy at UWS. Prior to taking up this appointment in 2008 she was a Canada Research Chair in the Department of Political Science, University of Alberta. Her most recent book (with G. Dowsett, D. Gursansky and M. Fine) is <I>Individualization and the Delivery of Welfare Services </I>(Palgrave 2009); and with M. Zolkos, she is the co-editor of a collection forthcoming with Continuum, <I>State, Security and Subject Formation</I>. She is working on a book of essays titled <I>The Politics of Individuality</I>. <BR>
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Location:</B> <B> </B>Seminar Room 442, <B>New Law School Annexe,</B> on Eastern Avenue. This is the triangular glass building half way along on your right if entering campus from City Road Main Gate. See the map here: <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/about/campus.shtml">http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/about/campus.shtml</a></U></FONT> <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Dr Melissa Gregg<BR>
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Lecturer in Gender and Cultural Studies<BR>
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry<BR>
Quadrangle Building A14<BR>
University of Sydney NSW 2006<BR>
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p 02 9351 3657 | m 0408 599 359 | e mel.gregg@usyd.edu.au<BR>
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<a href="http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/gcs/staff/profiles/mgregg.shtml">http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/gcs/staff/profiles/mgregg.shtml</a><BR>
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Enrol in our NEW Master of Cultural Studies: <a href="http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/gcs/postgrad/coursework.shtml">http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/gcs/postgrad/coursework.shtml</a><BR>
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