Suzanne Franzway

Prof Suzanne Franzway

School of Society and Culture

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Available For Media Comment.

I research in Gender Studies and Sociology and supervise research students across these areas. My work is based on my long-term commitment to applying my research and scholarship to foster social change and gender equality. I work to frame debates on women’s labour rights and social justice in the context of the changing role of trade unions and the impact of globalisation on work and family. The focus of my research is 'making feminist politics in greedy institutions' with specialisations in work, labour movements and feminist theory.
Current projects: sexual politics and labour movements; the politics of ignorance, social movements and the body; epistemologies of workplace change and gendered violence and women's citizenship.
My first book contributed to the development of feminist theories of the state, which provided new models for social change and policy (Staking a Claim: Feminism, Bureaucracy and the State, 1989, with Dianne Court and R.W. Connell). My second book, Sexual Politics and Greedy Institutions: Union Women, Commitments and Conflicts in Public and in Private (2001) was nominated for the TASA biennial Stephen Crook Memorial Prize. I co-authored Making Feminist Politics: Transnational Alliances between Women and Labor (2011) with Mary Margaret Fonow and most recently am co-author of Challenging Knowledge, Sex and Power: Gender, Work and Engineering (2013) with Julie Mills, Judith Gill and Rhonda Sharp. My most recent book is co-authored and published by Policy Press Stopping Rape: Towards a Comprehensive Policy (2015). I am a founding member of the UNESCO Women’s Studies and Gender Studies Research Network and I have a long standing involvement with the South Australian Working Women's Centre, as well as with other labour and women's community organisations.

Current research project includes Feminist activism and labour movements, 'greedy institutions' of work and family, sexual politics, labouring body, social movements, workplace cultures, and domestic violence and citizenship.

Year Citation
2024 Cordier, R., Chen, Y. W., Chung, D., Mahoney, N., Martin, R., Dorozenko, K., . . . Zufferey, C. (2024). The long shadow of intimate partner violence: associations of mental and physical health with employment, housing, and demographic factors. Violence Against Women, 30(5), 1300-1329.
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2023 Moulding, N., Chung, D., Zufferey, C., Franzway, S., & Wendt, S. (2023). Social participation after intimate partner violence: investigating the impact on women's citizenship. Violence Against Women, 29(14), 2754-2774.
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2021 Moulding, N., Franzway, S., Wendt, S., Zufferey, C., & Chung, D. (2021). Rethinking women's mental health after intimate partner violence. Violence Against Women, 27(8), 1064-1090.
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2016 Zufferey, C., Chung, D., Franzway, S., Wendt, S., & Moulding, N. (2016). Intimate partner violence and housing: eroding women's citizenship. Affilia: journal of women and social work, 31(4), 463-478.
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2016 Franzway, S. (2016). The sexual politics of citizenship and violence. Women's Studies International Forum, 58, 18-24.
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2016 Fonow, M. M., & Franzway, S. (2016). Queering labor. Labor history, 57(4), 549-553.
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2012 Sharp, R., Franzway, S., Mills, J., & Gill, J. (2012). Flawed policy, failed politics? Challenging the sexual politics of managing diversity in engineering organizations. Gender, work and organisation, 19(6), 555-572.
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2011 Mills, J. E., Gill, J., Sharp, R. D., & Franzway, S. M. (2011). Getting it together: feminist interdisciplinary research on women and engineering. Women's Studies International Forum, 34(1), 13-19.
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2010 Franzway, S., & Fonow, M. M. (2010). Gender, labour, war and empire: essays on modern Britain et al. Signs: journal of women in culture and society, 36(1), 227-237.
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2010 Franzway, S. M., & Fonow, M. (2010). 'Women's Work', review article. Signs: journal of women in culture and society, 36(1), 227-237.
2009 Franzway, S. M., Sharp, R. D., Mills, J. E., & Gill, J. (2009). Engineering ignorance the problem of gender equity in engineering. Frontiers-a journal of women studies, 30(1), 89-106.
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2009 Franzway, S. M., & Fonow, M. (2009). Queer activism, feminism and the transnational labor movement. Scholar and feminist online, 7(3), 1-9.
2008 Gill, J., Sharp, R. D., Mills, J. E., & Franzway, S. M. (2008). I still wanna be an engineer! Women, education and the engineering profession. European journal of engineering education, 33(4), 391-402.
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2008 Franzway, S. M., & Fonow, M. (2008). An Australian feminist twist on transnational labor activism. Signs: journal of women in culture and society, 33(3), 537-543.
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2008 Maher, J., Lindsay, J., & Franzway, S. M. (2008). Time, caring labour and social policy: understanding the family time economies of contemporary Australian families. Work, employment and society, 22(3), 547-558.
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2008 Gill, J., Mills, J. E., Franzway, S. M., & Sharp, R. D. (2008). "Oh you must be very clever!" : high-achieving women, professional power and the ongoing negotiation of workplace identity. Gender and education, 20(3), 223-236.
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2007 Bastalich, W. L., Franzway, S. M., Gill, J., Mills, J. E., & Sharp, R. D. (2007). Disrupting Masculinities: Women Engineers and Engineering Workplace Culture. Australian Feminist Studies, 22(54), 385-400.
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2006 Mills, J. E., Bastalich, W. L., Franzway, S. M., Gill, J., & Sharp, R. D. (2006). Engineering in Australia : an uncomfortable experience for women. Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, 12(2-3), 135-154.
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2006 Maddison, S., & Franzway, S. M. (2006). Reconsidering staking a claim-an intergenerational feminist conversation. Australian feminist studies, 21(50), 139-149.
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2005 Franzway, S. M. (2005). Work and family life: what we've forgotten. Australian Review of Public Affairs.
2005 Gill, J., Mills, J. E., Franzway, S. M., & Sharp, R. D. (2005). I wanna be an engineer! A tale of high achieving women, professional power and the ongoing negotiation of workplace identity. REDRESS.
2000 Franzway, S. M. (2000). Sisters and sisters? : labour movements and women's movements in (English) Canada and Australia. Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation.
2000 Franzway, S. (2000). Women working in a greedy institution: Commitment and emotional labour in the union movement. Gender Work and Organization, 7(4), 258-268.
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1999 Franzway, S. M. (1999). 'They see you coming.' A comparative study of sexual politics and women officials in English Canada and Australia.. Labour and industry : a journal of the social and economic relations of work, 10(2), 147-168.
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1997 Franzway, S. (1997). Engendering modernity: feminism, social theory and social change. Journal of sociology, 33(1), 112-113.
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1994 Franzway, S. (1994). Education Policies and Feminist Politics A Response to Lyn Yates. Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 14(2), 111-113.
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1991 Franzway, S. (1991). Work and Home. Australian Feminist Studies, 6(13), 121-123.
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1986 Franzway, S. (1986). With problems of their own: Femocrats and the welfare state. Australian Feminist Studies, 1(3), 45-57.
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Year Citation
2025 Franzway, S., Court, D., & Connell, R. W. (2025). Staking a Claim: Feminism, Bureaucracy and the State. Routledge.
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2023 Shi, J., Franzway, S., & Hill, S. (2023). Cultivating compassion: Going beyond crises. J. Shi, S. Hill, & S. Franzway (Eds.), Peter Lang Verlag.
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2019 Franzway, S., Moulding, N., Wendt, S., Zufferey, C., & Chung, D. (2019). The sexual politics of gendered violence and women's citizenship. UK: Policy Press.
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2015 Walby, S., Olive, P., Towers, J., Francis, B., Strid, S., Krizsán, A., . . . Armstrong, J. (2015). Stopping rape: towards a comprehensive policy. UK: Policy Press.
2013 Mills, J. E., Franzway, S., Gill, J., & Sharp, R. (2013). Challenging knowledge, sex and power: gender, work and engineering. New York: Routledge.
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2011 Franzway, S., & Fonow, M. M. (2011). Making feminist politics: transnational alliances between women and labor. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press.
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2011 Moghadam, V., Franzway, S., & Fonow, M. M. (Eds.) (2011). Making globalization work for women: the role of social rights and trade union leadership. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
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2011 Moghadam, V., Franzway, S., & Fonow, M. M. (Eds.) (2011). Making globalization work for women: the role of social rights and trade union leadership. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
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2001 Franzway, S. M. (2001). Sexual politics and greedy institutions : union women, commitments and conflicts in public and in private (First edition ed.). Annandale NSW: Pluto press.

Year Citation
2017 Franzway, S. (2017). The changing sexual politics of gender regulation by unions. In D. Peetz, & G. Murray (Eds.), Source details - Title: Women, labor segmentation and regulation: varieties of gender gaps (1 ed., pp. 61-77). United States: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2016 Franzway, S. (2016). Transnational labor movements. In N. Naples (Ed.), Source details - Title: Encyclopaedia Gender and Sexuality Studies (pp. 1-7). UK: Wiley.
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2015 Franzway, S. M. (2015). Sexual politics and queer activism in the Australian trade union movement. In F. Colgan, & N. Rumens (Eds.), Source details - Title: Sexual orientation at Work: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives (pp. 213-227). US: Taylor and Francis.
2011 Fonow, M. M., Franzway, S., & Moghadam, V. M. (2011). Introduction and overview: globalization and women's social rights. In V. M. Moghadam, S. Franzway, & M. M. Fonow (Eds.), Source details - Title: Making globalization work for women: the role of social rights and trade union leadership (pp. 1-24). New York: SUNY Press.
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2011 Franzway, S., & Fonow, M. M. (2011). Demanding their rights: LGBT transnational labor activism. In V. M. Moghadam, S. Franzway, & M. M. Fonow (Eds.), Source details - Title: Making globalization work for women: the role of social rights and trade union leadership (pp. 289-308). New York: SUNY Press.
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2009 Fonow, M., & Franzway, S. M. (2009). Sites for renewal : women's activism in male-dominated unions in Australia, Canada, and the United States. In J. Foley, & P. Baker (Eds.), Source details - Title: Unions, equity and the path to renewal (pp. 177-191). Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
2009 Franzway, S. M. (2009). Leading the unions: sexual politics and international alliances. In G. Bloustein, B. Comber, & A. Mackinnon (Eds.), Source details - Title: The Hawke legacy (pp. 212-222). Australia: Wakefield Press.
2007 Franzway, S. M., & Fonow, M. (2007). Transnational union networks, feminism and labour advocacy. In Source details - Title: Trade union responses to globalization (pp. 165-175). Geneva: ILO.
2006 Franzway, S. M. (2006). Greedy Institutions. In P. Beilharz, & T. Hogan (Eds.), Source details - Title: Sociology: Place, Time and Division (pp. 406-413). Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press.
2005 Franzway, S. M. (2005). Making progressive educational politics in the current globalization crisis. In Source details - Title: Globalizing education : policies, pedagogies and politics (pp. 277-294). New York: Peter Lang.
2002 Franzway, S. M. (2002). Sexual politics in (Australian) labour movements. In Source details - Title: Gender, diversity and trade unions : international perspectives (pp. 275-291). London: Routledge.
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1997 Franzway, S. M. (1997). Sexual Politics in Trade Unions. In B. Pocock (Ed.), Source details - Title: Politics in Labour Unions (pp. 128-148). St Leonards NSW: Allen & Unwin.

Year Citation
2012 Franzway, S. (2012). Workplace culture, ignorance and persistent inequalities. In TASA 2012 Conference Abstracts (pp. 1). Australia: The Australian Sociological Association.
2012 Zufferey, C., Chung, D., & Franzway, S. (2012). Not on people's radar: employer responses to women's experiences of intimate partner violence. In A. Broom, & L. Cheshire (Eds.), Proceedings of 'Emerging and Enduring Inequalities', the Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference (TASA 2012) (pp. 1-10). Australia: The Australian Sociological Association.
2010 Franzway, S. M. (2010). Greedy institutions and union activism. In S. Velayutham, N. Ebert, & S. Watkins (Eds.), Proceedings of the The annual conference of the Australian Sociological Association (TASA): Social Causes, Private Lives (pp. 1-12). Sydney, Australia: Macquarie University.
2009 Mills, J., Gill, J., Franzway, S., & Sharp, R. (2009). Sustaining and enjoying a multi-disciplinary, multi-department, multi-campus research collaboration on women in engineering. In S. A. Rajala (Ed.), 2009 ASEE annual conference program: final conference program and proceedings (pp. 1-10). US: American Society for Engineering Education.
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2009 Franzway, S. M. (2009). Working through the world social forum. In S. Lockie (Ed.), The future of sociology (pp. 1-11). Canberra, Australia: Australian Sociological Association.
2008 Franzway, S. M. (2008). Framing domestic violence : its impact on women's employment.. In Re-imagining sociology : the annual conference of the Australian Sociological Association 2008, 2-5 December 2008, The University of Melbourne. Australia: TASA.
2007 Franzway, S. M., Zufferey, C. F., & Chung, D. R. (2007). Domestic violence and women's employment. In Our work -- our lives : National Conference on Women and Industrial Relations : proceedings of the 2nd National Conference held in Adelaide, South Australia, 20-21 September 2007. [Adelaide]: University of South Australia, Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies.
2007 Franzway, S. M. (2007). Doing activism and queer organising in the labour movement. In TASA and SAANZ Joint Conference 2007 : public sociologies : lessons and Trans-Tasman comparisons. Auckland, NZ: Dept. of Sociology, University of Auckland.
2007 Maher, J., Lindsay, J., & Franzway, S. M. (2007). Contemporary families, caring and time: understanding the 'family time economy'. In TASA and SAANZ Joint Conference 2007 : Public sociologies : lessons and Trans-Tasman comparisons. Auckland, NZ: Dept of Sociology, University of Auckland.
2007 Sharp, R. D., Mills, J. E., Franzway, S. M., Gill, J., & Adams, V. (2007). Market forces will make it happen! Management perspectives on diversity strategies in engineering workplaces. In Our work...our lives : national conference on women and industrial relations : proceedings of the 2nd national conference. South Australia: Hawke Research Institute, University of South Australia.
2006 Franzway, S. M. (2006). Round table, UNESCO project on enhancing women's socio-economic rights and trade union leadership. In 2nd World Forum on Human Rights.
2006 Franzway, S. M. (2006). Mobilising feminist politics : globalisation, alliances and sites. In Sociology for a mobile world : TASA 2006 : annual conference of The Australian Sociological Association, University of Western Australia & Murdoch University, 4-7 December 2006. [Hawthorn, Vic.]: Sociological Association of Australia.
2006 Franzway, S. M., & Fonow, M. (2006). Progressive labor and the politics of the family.. In Feminism and the Labour Movement: Bridging the divide: American Sociological Association 101st Annual Meeting 'Great Divides' Transgressing Boundaries.
2005 Gill, J., Mills, J. E., Sharp, R. D., & Franzway, S. M. (2005). Education beyond technical competence: Gender issues in the working lives of engineers. In Proceedings: 2005 4th ASEE/AaeE Global Colloquium on Engineering Education.. Australia: School of Engineering, The University of Queensland.
2005 Franzway, S. M., & Chung, D. R. (2005). Domestic violence and work. In TASA 2005 Conference Proceedings. Australia: The Sociological Association of Australia.
2005 Franzway, S. M., & Fonow, M. (2005). Feminism and transnational labor advocacy. In Mini Conference on Global Labor by the American Sociological Association Sections on Political Economy of the World System.
2005 Franzway, S. M. (2005). Transnational union networks, feminism and labor advocacy. In Global Union Research Network Workshop.
2005 Franzway, S. M. (2005). Happier days? Family, work and women. In The Australian Sociological Assocation Annual conference.
2005 Franzway, S. M., & Fonow, M. (2005). Global union networks, feminism and transnational labor solidarity. In Encuentro 'Mujeres y Globalizacion' (Women and Globalisation).
2004 Franzway, S. M. (2004). Union feminism and transnational labor advocacy networks. In Public Sociologies American Sociological Association 99th Annual Meeting Program. San Francisco.
2004 Franzway, S. M., Gill, J., Mills, J. E., Sharp, R. D., & Bastalich, W. L. (2004). Towards a feminist politics of work: revisioning a research project on women engineers. In TASA (The Australian Sociological Association) 2004 Conference Proceedings. Australia: The Australian Sociological Association (TASA).
2004 Franzway, S. M. (2004). 'We need to win ...' making feminist politics in trade unions and transnational labour activist networks. In Australasian Political Studies Association Conference Proceedings. Australia: University of Adelaide.
2003 Franzway, S. M. (2003). You need to care. The work of care between home and market. In TASA Conference Proceedings, 2003. NSW: Australian Sociological Association.
2003 Bastalich, W. L., Mills, J. E., Franzway, S. M., Gill, J., & Sharp, R. D. (2003). I had this real feeling that it was a boys club. In Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference Australiasian Association for Engineering Education and 9th Australiasian Women in Engineering Forum. Australia: Australasian Association for Engineering Education.
2002 Franzway, S. M. (2002). Union women making progressive politics: what possibilities?. In Research Committee on Labour Movements RC44, 15th World Congress of International Sociological Assocation.
2001 Franzway, S. M. (2001). Caring work as greedy institutions: Conditions and their consequences in child care and aged care. In The Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference.
2001 Franzway, S. M. (2001). 'I'm no shrinking violet' Making politics in a greedy institution. In The Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference.
2001 Franzway, S. M. (2001). Campaigning in traditional organisations: Canadian and Australian trade union activists negotiate greedy institutions. In Gender and Globalisation in Asia and the Pacific: Feminist Re-Visions Workshop.
1999 Franzway, S. M. (1999). 'Play the game - or here's the door' Feminist politics in Australian and (English) Canadian trade unions in the new millenium. In M. Collis, & L. Russell (Eds.), Sociology for a new Millenium: Challenges and Prospects. CeLTS Monash University: Aust Sociological Association Annual Conference.
1997 Franzway, S. M. (1997). Union Women: Working in greedy institutions. In M. Oppenheimer, & A. Murray (Eds.), 5th Women & Labour Conference. Macquarie University.

  • Gendered violence and citizenship: the complex effects of intimate partner violence on mental health, housing and employment, ARC - Discovery Projects, 14/04/2013 - 31/12/2017

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