Polare 74

Issued January 2008

(The Gender Centre advise that this edition of Polare is not current and as such certain content, including but not limited to persons, contact details and dates may not apply. Where legal authority or medical related matters are cited, responsibility lies with the reader to obtain the most current relevant legal authority and/or medical publication.)

Manager's Report

Gender Centre General Manager acknowledges the Aurora Group, Oz Harvest, Women's Housing Company and Marrickville and City of Sydney Council for their support in the past year, by Phinn Borg.

Editorial

A look at laws which have been made over time based on ignorance and prejudice rather than their validity or purpose in the real world, by Katherine Cummings.

Labor's Social Inclusion Agenda

A paper presented by Julia Gillard to the ACOSS 2007 National Annual Conference outlining Labor's policies regarding social inclusion.

Globalisation, Healthism and Harm Reduction

A paper presented at the National Centre in H.I.V. Social Research Consortium Workshop in Sydney in 2007, by Dr. Max Hopwood.

Book Review

Katherine's Diary: The story of a transsexual, revamped, updated, uncut by Katherine Cummings is an updated, expanded and uncensored version of a previous autobiography published in 1992, Reviewed by Tracie O'Keefe.

Book Review

Whipping Girl by Julia Serano focusses on traditional and oppositional sexism, cissexual privilege, trans-misogyny, trans-objectification, trans-mystification and discrimination against trans people, Reviewed by Delilah Slack-Smith.

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