Professor Suzanne Franzway

Emeritus Professor School of Communication, International Studies and Languages

Magill Campus (B1-30)
tel +61 8 830 24626
fax +61 8 830 24396

email Suzanne.Franzway@unisa.edu.au

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Research Degree Supervisor

About me

I research in Gender Studies and Sociology and supervise research students across these areas. My work is based on my long-term commitment to applying my research and scholarship to foster social change and gender equality. I work to frame debates on women’s labour rights and social justice in the context of the changing role of trade unions and the impact of globalisation on work and family. The focus of my research is 'making feminist politics in greedy institutions' with specialisations in work, labour movements and feminist theory. Current projects: sexual politics and labour movements; the politics of ignorance, social movements and the body; epistemologies of workplace change and gendered violence and women's citizenship. My first...

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Research

Research themes

Transforming societies

Research focus

Other Studies in Human Society
Sociology
Cultural Studies
Business and Management
Historical Studies

Highlights

Current research interests include 'greedy institutions' of work and family, sexual politics, labour movements, transnational labour activism, labouring body, social movements, workplace cultures, women engineers, and domestic violence and citizenship.

Research

Outputs

Research since 2008 is shown below.

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Highlights

Year	Output
2013	Mills, JE, Franzway, S, Gill, J & Sharp, R 2013, Challenging knowledge, sex and power: gender, work and engineering, Routledge, New York. 2
2009	Franzway, SM, Sharp, RD, Mills, JE & Gill, J 2009, 'Engineering Ignorance: The Problem of Gender Equity in Engineering', Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 89-106. 20 5 3

Books

Year	Output
2015	Walby, S, Olive, P, Towers, J, Francis, B, Strid, S, Krizsán, A, Lombardo, E, May-Chahal, C, Franzway, S, Sugarman, D, Agarwal, B & Armstrong, J 2015, Stopping rape: towards a comprehensive policy, Policy Press, UK.
2013	Mills, JE, Franzway, S, Gill, J & Sharp, R 2013, Challenging knowledge, sex and power: gender, work and engineering, Routledge, New York. 2
2011	Franzway, S & Fonow, MM 2011, Making feminist politics: transnational alliances between women and labor, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois. 3

Chapters

Year	Output
2017	Franzway, S 2017, 'The changing sexual politics of gender regulation by unions', in D Peetz & G Murray (eds), Women, labor segmentation and regulation: varieties of gender gaps, 1st ed., Palgrave Macmillan, United States, ch. 4, pp. 61-77.
2015	Franzway, SM 2015, 'Sexual politics and queer activism in the Australian trade union movement', in F Colgan & N Rumens (eds), Sexual orientation at Work: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives, Taylor and Francis, US, ch. 14, pp. 213 - 227. 18
2011	Fonow, MM, Franzway, S & Moghadam, VM 2011, 'Introduction and overview: globalization and women's social rights', in VM Moghadam, S Franzway & MM Fonow (eds), Making globalization work for women: the role of social rights and trade union leadership, SUNY Press, New York, pp. 1-24. 2
2011	Franzway, S & Fonow, MM 2011, 'Demanding their rights: LGBT transnational labor activism', in VM Moghadam, S Franzway & MM Fonow (eds), Making globalization work for women: the role of social rights and trade union leadership, SUNY Press, New York, pp. 289-308.
2009	Fonow, M & Franzway, SM 2009, 'Sites for Renewal: Women's Activism in Male-Dominated Unions in Australia, Canada, and the United States', in Janice R Foley & Patricia L Baker, Unions, Equity and the Path to Renewal, University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, ch. 10, pp. 177-191.
2009	Franzway, SM 2009, 'Leading the unions: sexual politics and international alliances', in Gerry Bloustein, Barbara Comber & Alison Mackinnon, The Hawke Legacy, Wakefield Press, Australia, pp. 212-222.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2016	Fonow, MM & Franzway, S 2016, 'Queering labor', Labor history, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 549-553. 1
2016	Franzway, S 2016, 'The sexual politics of citizenship and violence', Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 58, pp. 18-24. 2 1 1
2016	Zufferey, C, Chung, D, Franzway, S, Wendt, S & Moulding, N 2016, 'Intimate partner violence and housing: eroding women's citizenship', Affilia: journal of women and social work, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 463-478. Open access 1 1
2012	Sharp, R, Franzway, S, Mills, J & Gill, J 2012, 'Flawed policy, failed politics? Challenging the sexual politics of managing diversity in engineering organizations', Gender, work and organisation, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 555-572. 12 7
2011	Mills, JE, Gill, J, Sharp, RD & Franzway, SM 2011, 'Getting it together: feminist interdisciplinary research on women and engineering', Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 34, pp. 13-19. 12 6
2009	Franzway, SM & Fonow, M 2009, 'Queer Activism, Feminism and the Transnational Labor Movement', Scholar & Feminist Online, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 1-9.
2009	Franzway, SM, Sharp, RD, Mills, JE & Gill, J 2009, 'Engineering Ignorance: The Problem of Gender Equity in Engineering', Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 89-106. 20 5 3
2008	Franzway, SM & Fonow, M 2008, 'An Australian feminist twist on transnational labor activism', Signs: journal of women in culture and society, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 537-543. 1 2
2008	Gill, J, Mills, JE, Franzway, SM & Sharp, RD 2008, ''Oh you must be very clever!' High-achieving women, professional power and the ongoing negotiation of workplace identity', Gender and Education, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 223-236. Open access 21 11
2008	Gill, J, Sharp, RD, Mills, JE & Franzway, SM 2008, 'I still wanna be an engineer! Women, education and the engineering profession', European Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 391-402. 53 3
2008	Maher, J, Lindsay, J & Franzway, SM 2008, 'Time, caring labour and social policy: Understanding the family time economy in contemporary families', Work, Employment and Society, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 547-558. 21 18

Conferences

Year	Output
2012	Franzway, SM 2012, 'Workplace culture, ignorance and persistent inequalities', 2012 TASA Conference : Emerging and Enduring Inequalities, The Australian Sociological Association, pp. 1. Open access
2012	Zufferey, C, Chung, D & Franzway, SM 2012, 'Not on people's radar: Employer responses to women's experiences of intimate partner violence', in NA, 2012 TASA Conference : Emerging and Enduring Inequalities, The Australian Sociological Association, pp. 1-10.
2010	Franzway, SM 2010, 'Greedy institutions and union activism', in Velayutham Selvaraj, Ebert Norbert, Watkins Sheila, The annual conference of the Australian Sociological Association (TASA), Macquarie University, pp. 1-12. Open access
2009	Franzway, SM 2009, 'Working through the world social forum', in S. Lockie, D. Bissell, A. Grieg, M. hynes, D. Marsh, L. saha, J. Sikora & D. Woodman, The Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference 2009, Australian Sociological Association, pp. 1-11. Open access
2009	Mills, JE, Gill, J, Franzway, SM & Sharp, RD 2009, 'Sustaining and Enjoying a Multi-disciplinary, Multi-department, Multi-campus Research Collaboration on Women in Engineering', in Sarah A Rajala, 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, American Society for Engineering, pp. 1-10.
2008	Franzway, SM 2008, 'Framing domestic violence: its impact on women's employment.', in T. Majoribanks, J Barraket, JS Chang, A Dawson, M Guillemin, M Henry-Waring, A Kenyon, r Kokanovic, J Lewis, D Lusher, D Nolan, P Pyett, R Robins, D Warr, J Wyn, 2008 Australian Sociological Association Conference, TASA. Open access

Other

Year	Output
2010	Franzway, SM & Fonow, M 2010, 'Women's Work', review article, University of Chicago Press.

Other outputs

Franzway, S. Sexual politics of citizenship and violence. Women’s Studies International Forum (accepted April 2016)

Stopping Rape: Towards a Comprehensive Policy (2015) Sylvia Walby, Suzanne Franzway et al Bristol, UK: Policy Press

Fonow, M.M and Franzway, S. ‘Women’s Activism in the US Trade Union Movement’ in Holly J. McCammon Lee Ann Banaszak, Verta Taylor and Jo Rege (eds) Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women’s Social Movement Activism, OUP (forthcoming, 2016)

Franzway, S. 'The changing sexual politics of gender regulation by unions' in David Peetz and Georgina Murray (Eds) Women at Work: Labor Segmentation and Regulation Palgrave MacMillan (Under contract).

Franzway, S. ‘Transnational labor movements’ in N. Naples (ed.) Encyclopaedia Gender and Sexuality Studies, Wiley-Blackwell, New York (Published online 28 October 2015)

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Arizona State University	UNITED STATES
Central European University	HUNGARY
Complutense University of Madrid	SPAIN
Curtin University of Technology	AUSTRALIA
Lancaster University	UNITED KINGDOM
Macquarie University	AUSTRALIA
Monash University	AUSTRALIA
Orebro University	SWEDEN
Purdue University	UNITED STATES
University of Cumbria	UNITED KINGDOM
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Western Australia	AUSTRALIA

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
Fashioning self and working life in precarious times	Current
Taking the Heat: Applying a gendered analysis to the Australian Fire Service culture	Current
The un-settling of home: power, dwelling and everyday life for older women in Australia	Current
Living Buddhism: negotiating practice, meaning and identity in contemporary Australia	Completed
Motherhood, equality and the state: the possibilities and limitations of the Australian Human Rights Commission	Completed
Penalties and dividends: the sexual politics of aspiring egalitarian parenting	Completed
Sole mothers in Australia: work, care and social support	Completed
Speaking the unspeakable. Interrogating leadership: gender-race-ethnicity in Australian Catholic education	Completed
The long journey of Australia's engagement with Asia: a national identity perspective	Completed
Understanding cultural production for sustainability and diversity: the case of the popular music industry	Completed
Women's rights and cultural rights of Liberian and Afghani women in multicultural Australia	Completed
Working in the shadows: labouring bodies in the commercial cleaning industry	Completed

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