Feminism, Republicanism, Egalitarianism, Environmentalism
Bill of Rights and Gendered Sustainable Initiatives

Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction. Envisioning an Australian Republican-Constitutional change and Bill of Rights Act.

1. Aspirations for an Australian Republic and Bill of Rights’ Initiatives
2. My research project: Qualitative design and a snapshot of participants

1. Conceptualising my 6 groups
2. Research procedure and Design
3. Demographics: A sociological snapshot of participants
4. My Groups

1. Group 1- The Australian Greens
2. Group 2- eNGOs
3. Group 3- Grassroots organisations
4. Group 4- Academic activists/advocates

3. Discussion
4. An introductory insight to empirical themes
5. Emphasized femininity resistance to patriarchal institutionalisation.

Feminist agentic leadership competence within environmentalism

6. Gender performativity, political agency and the identity of the subject
7. Gendered representations and renewable energy equity programs
8. Conceptualising a patriarch within patriarchy: Women’s economic independence
9. EEO gaps and meritocracy
10. Women with disabilities at work

Conclusion.

2. What a Bill of Rights should achieve?

1. A human-rights framework and (in)equity/(in)justice Initiatives
2. Women’s Renewables Technological Leadership Initiative and Indigenous Treaty
3. Critique of conservativeness within Australian sociopolitical contexts
4. An anti-war ethos and peace-making model: WW & SE solutions

Conclusion.

3. ‘Red Vienna’: a viable Republican model?

1. Red Viennese Republicanism: Social democracy for all classes?
2. Intersections of Republicanism with Feminism.
3. Conclusion. The fall of Red Vienna.

4. Brexit and ‘WASPishness as the antithesis’.

1. Hereditary elitism: a counterpoint towards egalitarianism?
2. A replication of Anglo male middle class privilege
3. Divorcing the monarchy
4. Envisioning a peacemaking sociopolitical model
5. "‘WASP’ishness" within neo-liberal democracies

Conclusion.

Part 11. The ‘boys club’ and emphasized femininity resistance.

5. The gendered nature of the elite: ‘The boys club’ and ruling class masculinity within renewables organisational governance.

1. A thematic overview
2. ‘The boys club’ within Australian politics
3. Discussion
4. Greens protest voice for change
5. Resisting ‘a boys club’: Grassroots participatory socioecological democracy
6. Discussion
7. Resisting ‘a boys club’ and glass ceilings within academia
8. Discussion
9. Resisting ‘the boys club’ and gender differences in eNGOs
10. Recognising/resisting egoism and otherness
11. Discussion

Conclusion.

6. Gender tokenism on climate panels.

1. Women as token members on climate panels
2. Discussion
3. Gender barrier: Men taking credit for the work of women
4. Discussion

Conclusion.

Part 111. Emphasized femininity as an agentic performance

7. An agentic performative multi-skills-set within environmentalism.

1. Communicational skills: written and oral prowess
2. Discussion
3. Scientific competence: a technical-intellectual framing of change
4. Academic scientific expertise
5. To make a difference
6. Social competence and affinity for the human/nonhuman
7. Egalitarian resistance to egoism and ruling elites
8. Constructing performativity: ‘We [women] need to change’
9. Discussion
10. Empathy as agentic: constructivist/essentialist dichotomies
11. Discussion

Conclusion.

8. Physical competence and civil disobedience.

1. ‘…You can’t be afraid of getting your hands dirty or have good nails…’
2. Competitive, tough performative femininities
3. Discussion
4. Radical performative femininities: Civil disobedience
5. Conservative performative femininities: aspirations for social change
6. Discussion

Conclusion.

9. Age as a barrier/enabler. Older and Younger women’s agentic resistance.

1. Framing Women’s Liberation: Women as technicians, men as scientists
2. Chauvinism, misogyny and sexism within academia
3. Mocking the sexualised performativity of male bosses
4. Grassroots collectives: Older and younger women’s lead
5. Cultural-ageist dimensions framing emphasized feminine constructivism
6. Discussion

Conclusion.

10. Activism as egalitarian and anti-hierarchical.

1. Egalitarianism as an enabler
2. A grassroots-egalitarian approach to eNSMs/eSMOs
3. Intersections of bureaucracy, hierarchy and patriarchy
4. Discussion.

Conclusion.

11. Indigenous Women’s Leadership: Envisioning an Indigenous Treaty.

1. Barbara’s retrospection: ‘a very feminine caring, nurturing, mother earth angle’
2. Discussion.

Conclusion.

Part 1V. Conclusion to Book.

12. Conclusion. Emphasized femininity/hegemonic masculinity and constructivism/essentialism.

1. My Bill of Rights Act in action: an evolutionary framework
2. Women-led renewable development Initiatives
3. A pervasive ‘boys club’ within environmentalist executive hierarchies
4. My Acts Initiatives’ modelling of merit and competence
5. An agentic performative multi-skills-sets: Emphasized resistance to tokenism
6. Sustainability energy programs and empowering quotas
7. Envisioning greater agency for women and grassroots citizenry
8. Discussion

Conclusion.

13. Conclusion. Republican ‘Red Vienna’: an inspirational feminist model of egalitarian governance.

1. Women’s performativity as research scientists, not technicians
2. Patriarchy, still a barrier
3. The Federal Republic of Austria: a viable contemporary model?
4. A new model: One Head of State
5. Sovereignty, democratic egalitarianism and sustainable economics
6. Brexit and the Monarchy
7. My 6 groups’ scientific-technical leadership of WW & SE solutions
8. Connecting my Bill of Rights to an Indigenous Treaty framework.

Conclusion.

Index