ABSTRACT

Typologies of policy research often set up dichotomous options for the policy researcher: the stance of an outside reporter or critic who writes about policy; or the stance of an advocate who writes for or to policy (Codd, 1983; Cunningham, 1992). However, what is perhaps most distinctive about recent feminist policy research in Australia is that it is often positioned in ways that make such a dichotomy inappropriate (see Blackmore and Kenway, 1993; Eisenstein, 1991; Franzway, Court and Connell, 1989; Yeatman, 1990).