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• Title: Watch That Gap: Reflections on the Struggle for Equality.
• Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
• Release Date : January 22, 2008
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 270 KB

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In this paper in my attempt to begin a conversation about ways to negotiate that mysterious gap between hope and happening (1) that is so often the stuff of policy change, I'll be considering the thinking and activism of two quite different women from the same generation--Australian feminist activist and internationalist Pat Giles (born 1928), and Belgian/French feminist philosopher and psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray (born 1932). My reasons for bringing them together in this forum are both serendipitous and strategic: serendipitous because my current research preoccupations bring me into close contact with the work of them both; and strategic because, in thinking through ways to address a conference called Women in the Modern World: the Struggle for Equality, it became apparent to me that the work of the one can usefully address the dilemmas of the other. Specifically, I'm thinking here of Irigaray's philosophical work on negotiating sexual difference, and Pat Giles' lifetime commitment to what she and her activist colleagues frequently call the struggle for equality through introducing legislative and policy changes. In this paper I'll be arguing that we already understand, conceptually, the difference between aspiring for equality and aspiring for recognition of difference--most intricately explored by Luce Irigaray (2)--but what we're not so clear about yet is how to create the discursive space for that kind of manoeuvre to be articulated. How do we, for example, make space in a policy document to ensure that the philosophical context it's embedded in--the desires that underpin it--desires for women to be accorded full human status--are visible, audible, and able to be acted on? Those are the conversational spaces I hope this paper will open up.

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