ABSTRACT
What happens when feminist issues get taken up as an agenda of the State? This chapter offers a consideration of almost two decades of Australian government commitments to girls and education. In doing this, the chapter will raise some issues about the nature of the state’s activity in educational reform in this area, and also about the feminist theories which have provided frameworks for reform. In particular, I will discuss some changes in the ways gender has been framed as an issue for education in the 1980s compared with the 1970s.
