Biografisk notat

University and has recently accepted an appointment at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. She has edited or co-edited four anthologies of women's and multicultural writings. She is the editor of Feminist Knowledge: Critique and Construct and A Reader in Feminist Knowledge (Routledge, 1990). She has published numerous critical essays (nationally and internationally) on feminist literary theory and on multiculturalism in its various formations. She co-edited Striking Chords: Multicultural Literary Interpretations (1992) and was one of the compilers of A Bibliography of Australian Multicultural Writers (1992). Anna Yeatman was foundation professor of Women's Studies at the University of Waikato, 1991-93. She is professor of Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney. Her research interests cover feminist theory, the implications of globalization for the polity, the restructuring of the professions and higher education. She has undertaken a number of public policy consultancies, including two research reports for the Australian Office of Multicultural Affairs. Recent publications include Bureaucrats, Technocrats, Femocrats: Essays on the Contemporary Australian State, Allen & Unwin 1990; editor and contributor to a special issue of Social Analysis (no. 30, 1991) on 'Postmodern Critical Theorizing'; and a book on Postmodernism and the Revisioning of the Political, forthcoming Routledge, New York 1993.