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1. Work, Theory, Scholarship: Equal Pay, Pay Equity and the Sex of Gendered Work -- 2. Intermission: Pay and Personalities I -- 3. A Nineteenth-Century Legacy: Early Days, Equal Pay and Radical Women -- 4. Alarums and Excursions: Infiltrating at the Palace of Versailles -- 5. The Fortunes of the Flapper: The 1920s Generation Confronts the 1930s -- 6. Alarums and Excursion: Women Versus Men Versus Women -- 7. Intruders on the Rights of Man? 1940s Women at War and Work -- 8. Alarums and Excursions: Out of Bounds in the International Arena -- 9. A Decade of Darkness - or into the Light? The Struggles and Success of the 1950s Woman -- 10. Alarums and Excursions: Women Versus Women Versus Men -- 11. The 1960s: Decade of Radical Change or Back to 1912? -- 12. Intermission: Pay and Personalities II -- 13. Ingenuity and Intellectual Rigour: Brazen 1970s Hussies Arguing Back -- 14. Alarums and Excursions: Facts, Fictions, Fallacies and Fancies -- 15. A 1980s Skirmish into Comparable Worth -- 16. Intermission: Pay and Personalities III -- 17. Enterprising Women Confront Enterprise Bargaining: 'I'm All Right Jack' Versus 1990s Woman -- 18. Alarums and Excursions: The Inside Story -- 19. Forward to the Past, Back to the Future: Beyond the New Millennium -- 20. Conclusion: Remembering and Forgetting - Women's Work, Women's Rights and the Long Equal Pay Struggle.

Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction-The Body Plastic -- 1 Brain & -- Body, Brain vs Body -- 2 The Body Perfect/Imperfect -- 3 The Body as Image -- 4 My Body, Your Opinion -- 5 The Body as 'I' -- 2 The Body Beneath the Knife -- 1 The Body in the Beauty Parlour -- 2 The Body on the Operating Table -- 3 The Criminal Body and the Body in Crime -- 4 The Criminal, the Civil and the Role of the Law -- 3 Above the Shoulder Blades -- 1 Her Crowning Glory -- 2 Oh! My Face … a Retroussé Nose & -- Pinned Ears -- 3 Around the Eyes & -- Rounded Eyes … -- 4 For Bee-Stung Lips, Whiter-Than-White Teeth, Receding Chins & -- Measures Under the Neck -- 5 Plastic Faces or 'The New Normal'? -- 4 All Above the Waist -- 1 Over and Above the Bosom -- 2 Bust, Bosom, Breasts … -- 3 Reclaiming Our Bodies, Our Selves-Beginning with Breasts & -- Chests -- 5 Below the Belt and Under the Waist … -- 1 Muffin Top Madness -- 2 Around the Fatty Abdomen -- 3 Within the Fatty Abdomen -- 4 What Lies Beneath … -- 5 Bad Body Hair … Comes Good? -- 6 Our Rounded Bits … -- 1 Rounding Up vs Rounding Down -- 2 The Bottom as Bustle … -- 3 Bottoms, Hips, Thighs … -- 4 Exposing My Midriff or Where Are My Abs? -- 5 Suction Up, Suction Down -- 7 Extremities: From the Tips of Her Fingers to the Tips of Her Toes -- 1 The Moons of My Nails, O'er My Elegant Hands … -- 2 Upon Raising Her Arms to the Sky -- 3 From My Elbows to the Bush Within My Armpits -- 4 Legs, Knees, Ankles & -- Feet … -- 5 Feet, Ankles, Knees & -- Legs … -- 6 To the Tips of Her Toes- -- 7 Fingers, Hands, Nails, Toes-The Extremities That Count -- 8 Conclusion: Beyond the Body … -- 1 Recovering the Body … -- 2 My Body, My Self- -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction - Magna Carta: Women's Rights or Wrongs? -- 2 Are Women Persons? -- 3 Are Women Peers? -- 4 Can Women Be Householders? -- 5 Access to Law and Justice -- 6 No Taxation without Representation -- 7 Bring Up the Bodies -- 8 Conclusion - Claiming Magna Carta Rights -- List of Cases -- Bibliography -- Index

This is an interdisciplinary thesis in women's and gender studies combining legal analysis with archival research. It traverses Australian women's struggle for equal pay and pay equity from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginnings of the twenty-first. It recounts and analyses women's activism through campaigns targeting state and federal politicians, prime ministers, premiers and state and federal ministers for labour and industrial relations; engagement in the industrial arena; and through women's organisations and work with the trade union movement. The thesis analyses achievements and setbacks through the federal industrial arena, and references, too, major state industrial cases and legislation. It analyses women's intervention and impact in the Equal Pay, Minimum Wage, Basic Wage and National Wage Cases. Through archives, original letters, articles, pamphlets, books, interviews and other sources, the thesis recounts women's agreements and disagreements on how the struggle would be won, and the solid campaigning in which women engaged from the late years of the nineteenth century, through every decade of the twentieth, and in the first years of the first decade of the twenty-first century. It covers a span of over one hundred years, during which the claim was characterised as one for equal pay, the rate for the job and, more recently, pay equity. Looking at the past and the present, the thesis concludes that women's direct engagement with the industrial system and parallel working within women's organisations and trade unions has been central to gains in equal pay and pay equity. Apart from women's and men's earnings in Scandinavia, relativities between women's and men's wages and salaries in Australia have been -- despite the disparity - the most approximate of all OECD countries. The thesis posits that it is only with a return to centralised wage fixing, with women's organisations intervening and bringing their own experts to educate industrial commissions, employers and unions, that the value ...