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= Carol Bacchi = Carol Bacchi born in Montreal, Canada on the 17th of April, 1948 is a Canadian-Australian Professor Emerita of Politics at the Faculty of Arts, University of Adelaide. She researches and writes primarily in feminist political theory and policy theory, major publications including:

Same difference: Feminism and sexual difference (Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1990), The Politics of Affirmative Action: “Women”, Equality and Category Politics (London, Sage, 1996), Women, Policy and Politics: The construction of policy problems(London, Sage, 1999), Fear of Food: A Diary of Mothering (Sydney, Spinifex Press, 2003), Analysing Policy: What’s the problem represented to be? (Frenchs Forest, Pearson Education, 2009), Mainstreaming Politics: Gendering practices and feminist theory (with Joan Eveline; Adelaide, University of Adelaide Press, 2010) and Poststructural Policy Analysis: A Guide to Practice (with Susan Goodwin; New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

= Early Life, Education and Career =

Born and raised in Montreal, Canada, Bacchi attended the Loyola College (Concordia University) in Montreal where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor honours degree in Montreal in 1969. Bacchi subsequently received both a Master and PhD Degree in History from the University of McGill in Montreal in 1971 and in 1977 respectively, her PhD dissertation on the English-Canadian Suffragists paving way to her interest in feminist political theory and political theory in general.

In 2000, Bachhi received the title of Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA), specializing in Feminist political theory, policy theory, equity legislation, embodiment and citizenship. In 2017, she was awarded Honorary Doctorate at the University of Umeå, Sweden.

At current Carol Bacchi is a Professor Emerita of Politics. Her research and scholarship is predominantly based in the fields of feminist political theory, policy theory, mobility studies and citizenship. Bacchi is best known for her approach to policy analysis and development of an analytic strategy for policy analysis, called "What's the Problem Represented to be?"(the WPR approach) which she introduced in her article "Analysing Policy: What's the Problem Represented to be?, Pearson Education, 2009". Examples of the application of the approach are available in her most recent book, Poststructural Policy Analysis: A Guide to Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), co-authored with Susan Goodwin.

= Personal Life =

Professor Bacchi currently resides in Adelaide, Australia. She is single and has a 26 year old son.

= Selected bibliography and works = • 1983 - ''Liberation Deferred? The Ideas of the English-Canadian Suffragists, 1877-1918.''

• 1988 - Feminism and the "Eroticization" of the Middle-class Woman: the Intersection of Class and Gender Attitudes

• 1990 - Same Difference: Feminism and Sexual Difference.

• 1993 - The Brick Wall: Why Do Few Women Become Senior Academics.

• 1996 - The Politics of Affirmative Action: 'Women', Equality and Category Politics.

• 1999 - Women, Policy and Politics: the construction of policy problems.

• 2000 - The Seesaw Effect: Down Goes Affirmative Action, Up Comes Workplace Diversity.

• 2003 - Fear of Food: A Diary of Mothering.

• 2005 - Discourse, Discourse Everywhere: Subject “Agency” in Feminist Discourse Methodology’.

• 2009 - Analysing Policy: What’s the problem represented to be?

• 2009 - Challenging the Displacement of Affirmative Action by Gender Mainstreaming.

• 2010 - Gender mainstreaming, affirmative action and diversity: Politics and meaning in gender equality policies.

• 2012 - ''Why Study Problematizations? Making politics visible.''

• 2018 - Drug Problematizations and Politics: Deploying a poststructural analytic strategy. = References =