Professor Suzanne Franzway

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 book contributed to the development of feminist theories of the state, which provided new models for social change and policy (Staking a Claim: Feminism, Bureaucracy and the State, 1989, with Dianne Court and R.W. Connell). My second book, Sexual Politics and Greedy Institutions: Union Women, Commitments and Conflicts in Public and in Private (2001) was nominated for the TASA biennial Stephen Crook Memorial Prize. I co-authored Making Feminist Politics: Transnational Alliances between Women and Labor (2011) with Mary Margaret Fonow and most recently am co-author of Challenging Knowledge, Sex and Power: Gender, Work and Engineering (2013) with Julie Mills, Judith Gill and Rhonda Sharp. My most recent book is co-authored and published by Policy Press Stopping Rape: Towards a Comprehensive Policy (2015). I am a founding member of the UNESCO Women’s Studies and Gender Studies Research Network and I have a long standing involvement with the South Australian Working Women's Centre, as well as with other labour and women's community organisations.

TASA The Australian Sociological Association(Thematic group: Work and Labour),ISA International Sociological Association, Research Committee 44, Labour Movements,ASA, American Sociological Association (Labor and Labor Movements, Sex and Gender)

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy Flinders University

• Master of Arts University of Essex

• Bachelor of Arts Flinders University

• Diploma of Teaching Kelvin Grove Teachers College