The Politics of Identity in Australia

Geoffrey Stokes works in the areas of democratic theory, citizenship, Australian political thought, and public policy.

• Part I. Theorising Identity: 1. Situating Australian national identity in theory and practice Jeff Archer; 2. 'Other times': Thatcher, Hawke, Keating and the politics of identity Carol Johhson; 3. Universal obligations: liberalism, religion and national identity Gregory Melleuish; Part II. Gender and Sexuality: 4. 'Manly, true and white': masculine identity and Australian socialism Michael Leach; 5. 'Stirring tales': Australian feminism and national identity, 1900–1940 Marilyn Lake; 6. The making of an Australian civic identity: the bodies of men and the memory of war Helen Pringle; 7. (Homo)sexual identities, queer theory and politics Denis Altman; Part III. Race, Place and Citizenship: 8. Racialism and democracy: the legacy of White Australia John Kane; 9. Immigration and national identity: multiculturalism James Jupp; 10. Australia and Asia: place, determinism and national identities Wayne Hudson and Geoff Stokes; 11. Citizenship and Aboriginality: two conceptions of identity in Aboriginal political thought Geoff Stokes; Part IV. Culture, Literature and Film: 12. Political identity in contemporary Australian literature: David Malouf, Peter Carey and M. D. Fletcher; 13. Australian film and national identity in the 1990s Graeme Turner.