Associate Professor Suzanne Franzway

I research and teach 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: co-author book, New Feminist Politics: Transnational Alliances between Women and Labor, Illinois University Press,(MM Fonow, Arizona State University). Epistemologies of workplace change: transforming gender relations in engineering (multi-disciplinary research team, UniSA). The impact of domestic violence on women's employment (SA Government & UniSA research team) Family/work, care and time (Monash research team)

My first book contributed to the development of feminist theory 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 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.

Research in the Division

Research Centre for Gender Studies

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)

PhD, Sociology, Flinders University of South Australia. Thesis: ‘Making Feminist Politics: Gender and Power in the Trade Union Movement’.

M.A., Sociology, University of Essex, U.K.

B.A.(Hons), Sociology, Flinders University of South Australia.

Dip.T., Kelvin Grove Teachers’ College, Queensland

• Current research interests include 'greedy institutions' of work and family, labour movements, transnational labour activism networks, caring work in aged care and childcare, workplace cultures, women engineers, and domestic violence in the workplace.

Books:

New Feminist Politics: Transnational Alliances between Women and Labor co-author with Mary Margaret Fonow, University of Illinois Press (under contract)

Sexual Politics and Greedy Institutions: Union Women, Commitments and Conflicts in Public and in Private (2001) Sydney: Pluto Press.

Staking a Claim: Feminism, Bureaucracy and the State (1989) co-authored with Dianne Court and R.W. Connell, Sydney: Allen & Unwin/Oxford: Polity Press.

Guest editor with Kathie Muir, Special Issue Hecate (2000) ‘Trade Unions and Sexual Politics’ 26, 2

Book Chapters:

Franzway, S. and Fonow, M.M. (2009) ‘Sites for renewal: women's activism in male dominated unions in Australia, Canada, and the US’ in Janice Foley and Patricia Barker (eds) Equity- The Path To Union Renewal Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

‘Transnational Union Networks, Feminism, and Labor Advocacy’ with Mary Margaret Fonow in Verena Schmidt (ed) Trade Unions, Globalizations and Development Geneva: Global Union Research Network/International labour Office, 2007.

'Making progressive educational politics in the current globalization crisis’(2005)in Michael W. Apple, Jane Kenway and Michael Singh (eds.) Globalizing Education: Policies, Pedagogies, and Politics Counterpoints, Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education, Vol. 280

‘Greedy Institutions’ in Peter Beilharz and Trevor Hogan (eds) (2006) Sociology: Place, Time and Division, Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

‘Sexual Politics in (Australian) Labour Movements’ in Fiona Colgan and Sue Ledwith (eds) (2002) Gender, Diversity and Trade Unions: International Perspectives. London: Routledge/Taylor and Francis.

‘Sexual politics in trade unions’ in Barbara Pocock (ed.) (1997) Strife. Sex and Politics in Labour Unions Sydney: Allen and Unwin, pp. 128-48.

Refereed articles and scholarly presentations:

Fonow, M. M. and Franzway, S. (2009) Queer Labor, Feminism and the Transnational Labor Movement S&F online, (Scholar and Feminist Online), special issue: Toward a Vision of Social and Economic Justice, Barnard Center for Research on Women, 7.3, Summer, http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/sexecon/

Franzway, S., Sharp, R., Mills, Julie E., & Gill, J (2009) “Engineering diversity: The problem of gender equity in engineering” Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies 30,1, 89-106.

Gill, J., Mills, J.E., Franzway, S. & Sharp, R. (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.

Franzway, S., Sharp, R., Mills, Julie E., & Gill, J (2009) “Engineering diversity: The problem of gender equity in engineering” Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies 30,1, 89-106.

Judith Gill; Rhonda Sharp; Julie Mills; Suzanne Franzway (2008)'"I still wanna be an engineer!" Women, education and the engineering profession' European Journal of Engineering Education: 33,4, pp. 391 - 402

Maher, Jane-Maree, Lindsay, Jo and Franzway, Suzanne (2008) “Time, caring labour and social policy: understanding the family time economies of contemporary Australian families” Work, Employment and Society, 24, 3, pp.247-258.

Franzway, S. & Fonow, M. M. “An Australian Feminist Twist on Transnational Labor Activism” SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Vol. 33, No 3, 2008.

Maher, JaneMaree, Jo Lindsay and Suzanne Franzway (2007) Contemporary families, caring and time: understanding the ‘family time economy’ Public Sociologies: Lessons and Trans-Tasman Comparisons.The Australian Sociological Association, Annual Conference, University of Auckland, December.

Franzway, Suzanne (2007) ‘Doing activism and queer organising in the labour movement’ Public Sociologies: Lessons and Trans-Tasman Comparisons The Australian Sociological Association, Annual Conference, University of Auckland, December.

Sharp, R., Mills, J., Franzway, S., Gill, J. & Adams, V., (2007), Market Forces Will Make it Happen! Management Perspectives on Diversity Strategies in Engineering Workplaces, Our Work … Our Lives 2007: National conference on women and industrial relations, 20-21 September, Adelaide, Australia.

Bastalich, W. Franzway, S., Gill, J., Mills, J., and Sharp, R., (2007) “Disrupting masculinities: Women engineers and engineering workplace culture” Australian Feminist Studies. Vol. 22, No.54, pp. 385-400.

‘Mobilising feminist politics: globalisation, alliances and sites’ Sociology for a Mobile World The Australian Sociological Association, Annual Conference University of Western Australia, December, 2006

Keynote, 'What does it matter? The problem of gender equity in engineering.' Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics, and Science Studies Second Conference, “Knowledge that Matters” Arizona State University,February 8-10, 2007

Maddison, S. & Franzway, S. (2006) ‘Reconsidering Staking a Claim: An Inter-generational Feminist Conversation’ Australian Feminist Studies, Vol. 21, No. 50, pp. 139-149

Round table, UNESCO project on Enhancing Women’s Socio-Economic Rights and Trade Union Leadership at the 2nd World Forum on Human Rights, Nantes, France, 12 July, 2006.

Progressive Labor and the Politics of the Family. Thematic session (and session organiser): Feminism and the Labor Movement: Bridging the Divide. American Sociological Association 101st Annual Meeting, "Great Divides: Transgressing Boundaries," Palais des congres de Montreal, August 11-14, 2006

Franzway, Suzanne and Chung, Donna (2005) ‘Domestic Violence and Work’ Community, Place and Change The Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference, University of Tasmania, Hobart.

Gill, J., Mills, J.E., Franzway, S. & Sharp, R. (2005) ‘I wanna be an engineer!’: A tale of high achieving women, professional power and the ongoing negotiation of workplace identity, Redress, Journal of the Association of Women Educators, Vol 14 #2 pp 13-22.

Gill, J., Mills. J., Sharp, R. and Franzway, S., 2005, “Education beyond technical competence: Gender issues in the working lives of engineers”, Global Colloquium on Engineering Education, September 26-29, Sydney, Australia on CD Rom.

Towards a feminist politics of work: Revisioning a research project on women engineers (2004) with Judith Gill Julie E Mills, Rhonda Sharp and Wendy Bastalich, For Revisioning Institutions: change in the twenty-first century. The Australian Sociological Association refereed conference proceedings, LaTrobe University, Beechworth.

'We need to win … Making feminist politics in trade unions and transnational labour activist networks.'(2004) Refereed paper presented to the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference University of Adelaide. http://www.adelaide.edu.au/apsa/papers/

'Union Feminism and Transnational Labor Advocacy Networks' (2004) with Mary Margaret Fonow, American Sociological Association Annual Conference, San Francisco.

‘You need to care’. The work of care between home and market. (2003) The Australian Sociological Association, refereed conference proceedings, University of New England, Armidale.

“I had this real feeling that it was a boys’ club” (2003) Australasian Association for Engineering Education, refereed conference proceedings, Annual AAEE Conference, Melbourne 29 Sept – 1 Oct 2003

‘Women working in a greedy institution: Commitment and emotional labour in the union movement’ (2000) Gender, Work and Organisation October, 7, 4. pp. 258-68.

Sisters and sisters? Labour movements and women’s movements in (English) Canada and Australia (2000) Hecate 26,2, pp. 31-46.

‘They see you coming”. A comparative study of sexual politics and women union officials in English Canada and Australia’ (1999) Labour & Industry, 10, 2 pp.147- 168.

‘On women joining unions. Anna Booth, activism and altruism’ (1994) Hecate 20, 1, pp. 40-57. ‘Gender, unions and the new workplace: realising the promise?’ (with Miriam Henry) (1993) in Belinda Probert and Bruce Williams (eds) Pink Collar Blues Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, pp. 126-153.

‘With problems of their own: Femocrats and the welfare state’ (1986) Australian Feminist Studies, 3, Summer, pp. 45-57

‘Happier days? Family, work and women’ (2005) Community, Place and Change The Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference, University of Tasmania, Hobart

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Sociology

• Gender Studies
• Labour Movements
• Women and work
• Sociology