Lucie Newsome
Biographic Data
| ID | 692020 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucie Newsome |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucie |
| FAMILY NAME | Newsome |
| SIGNATURE | NEWSOME L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New England |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3996-3483 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fitting in and standing firm: New, alternative women farmers in Australia and the Netherlands
How is hegemonic agriculture produced, reproduced and challenged at the mesosocial level? We explore this question by examining the experiences of 37 farmers in Australia and the Netherlands who are ‘other’ in hegemonic agriculture: They are women, new to farming and engaged in alternative agriculture. Their experience of navigating their otherness in traditional mesosocial agricultural spaces demonstrates that masculinity, productivism and longe…
Identifying the Gender Order within Neoliberal Australian Agricultural Policy
Neoliberal states construct gender roles, gender norms, and gender orders in ways that reflect and legitimate the logic of the market. This study examines state interventions within the population of Australian women in agriculture and rural communities from 2013–20. It investigates the rationale, gendered symbolic spatial representation of tasks, types of interventions, and the characteristics promoted by policies and programs. Three ideal subje…
Recognition but few rewards: A 40-year review of the impact of the Australian women in agriculture movement
Despite women’s contribution to the viability of Australian family farming, there is gendered inequality in access to cultural recognition and economic rewards. This article examines the extent to which the Australian rural women’s movement challenged the state to respond to this inequality. It focuses on the period 1983–2024 and finds evidence of effective claim-making by the rural women’s movement for cultural recognition as partners in the far…
The “dreaded” daughter-in-law in Australian farm business succession
Egalitarian gender norms and legislative rights to property may be a threat to the successful intergenerational transfer of the family farm. This article examines how the land holding generation perceives the role of daughters-in-law in reproducing the family farm. We examine the site of farm succession and intergenerational transfer. We draw on interviews with 22 farm succession professionals. Our analysis demonstrates the land holding generatio…
More Lessons of the Accord: The 1986-87 Plumbers' Union Dispute
The early phases of the Price and Incomes Accord sought to constrain money-wage increases in order to reduce the rate of inflation. Despite this, in 1986 and 1987 the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees' Union of Australia engaged in industrial action to pressure employers into increasing wages. Using this case study, we examine the capacity for individual trade union agency for wage increases in the context of Accord Mark II. The article draws on …
Changing scripts: Gender, family farm succession and increasing farm values in Australia
In this paper we explore contemporary farm succession processes in Australia, with a particular focus on understanding how changing gender norms and increasing asset values may be impacting common patterns of farm ownership. We describe how social scripts inflect traditional patterns of farm succession and review what makes up a ‘family farm’, the changing economic environment in which family farms operate and take a deeper look at the traditiona…
Tempered disruption: Gender and agricultural professional services
Agriculture has traditionally been framed as men's work, while women's contributions to the sector have largely been rendered invisible. This article examines the emerging agricultural professional services sector, asking how a changing environment for agriculture may be disrupting traditional gender norms framing agricultural employment. Drawing together the literature in gender and agriculture, professional services and entrepreneurship and int…
Disrupted gender roles in Australian agriculture: First generation female farmers’ construction of farming identity
Characterizing the changing profile of employment in Australian agriculture
Intergenerational farm succession: How does gender fit
Beyond ‘get big or get out’: Female farmers' responses to the cost-price squeeze of Australian agriculture
Gender and Citizenship in Australia: Government Approaches to Paid Parental Leave Policy 1996–2017
In Western welfare states women’s citizenship rights are increasingly conferred on the basis of labor force participation rather than maternalism. This article examines the policy positions and discourse associated with paid parental leave of successive Australian governments from 1996 to 2017 to examine the extent to which this has occurred in the Australian context. It reveals a slow movement away from maternalism that has been constrained by p…
The Rise and Fall of Paid Maternity Leave Policy in the Years of the Keating Government
In 2010, Australia finally introduced maternity leave, making it one of the last OECD nations to do so. Yet this policy had been announced by the Keating Government some sixteen years earlier, only to be watered down and then ultimately scuppered by subsequent governments. How, then, do we make sense of the rise and fall of this policy in the 1990s? This paper examines this question, arguing that while effective mobilisation by women in the labou…
Female leadership and welfare state reform: The development of Australia’s first national paid parental leave scheme
The Howard Government’s commitment to supporting the male breadwinner policy model was a major barrier to the efforts of female political leaders to influence the development of a national paid parental leave scheme. Associated with this model was the argument that paid parental leave ‘discriminated’ against non-working women and devalued their contribution to society as mothers. Despite a change of government in 2007 this argument remained influ…
Beyond ‘get big or get out’: Female farmers' responses to the cost-price squeeze of Australian agriculture
Changing scripts: Gender, family farm succession and increasing farm values in Australia
In this paper we explore contemporary farm succession processes in Australia, with a particular focus on understanding how changing gender norms and increasing asset values may be impacting common patterns of farm ownership. We describe how social scripts inflect traditional patterns of farm succession and review what makes up a ‘family farm’, the changing economic environment in which family farms operate and take a deeper look at the traditiona…
Female leadership and welfare state reform: The development of Australia’s first national paid parental leave scheme
The Howard Government’s commitment to supporting the male breadwinner policy model was a major barrier to the efforts of female political leaders to influence the development of a national paid parental leave scheme. Associated with this model was the argument that paid parental leave ‘discriminated’ against non-working women and devalued their contribution to society as mothers. Despite a change of government in 2007 this argument remained influ…
The “dreaded” daughter-in-law in Australian farm business succession
Egalitarian gender norms and legislative rights to property may be a threat to the successful intergenerational transfer of the family farm. This article examines how the land holding generation perceives the role of daughters-in-law in reproducing the family farm. We examine the site of farm succession and intergenerational transfer. We draw on interviews with 22 farm succession professionals. Our analysis demonstrates the land holding generatio…
Disrupted gender roles in Australian agriculture: First generation female farmers’ construction of farming identity
Intergenerational farm succession: How does gender fit
Tempered disruption: Gender and agricultural professional services
Agriculture has traditionally been framed as men's work, while women's contributions to the sector have largely been rendered invisible. This article examines the emerging agricultural professional services sector, asking how a changing environment for agriculture may be disrupting traditional gender norms framing agricultural employment. Drawing together the literature in gender and agriculture, professional services and entrepreneurship and int…
Characterizing the changing profile of employment in Australian agriculture
Gender and Citizenship in Australia: Government Approaches to Paid Parental Leave Policy 1996–2017
In Western welfare states women’s citizenship rights are increasingly conferred on the basis of labor force participation rather than maternalism. This article examines the policy positions and discourse associated with paid parental leave of successive Australian governments from 1996 to 2017 to examine the extent to which this has occurred in the Australian context. It reveals a slow movement away from maternalism that has been constrained by p…
The Rise and Fall of Paid Maternity Leave Policy in the Years of the Keating Government
In 2010, Australia finally introduced maternity leave, making it one of the last OECD nations to do so. Yet this policy had been announced by the Keating Government some sixteen years earlier, only to be watered down and then ultimately scuppered by subsequent governments. How, then, do we make sense of the rise and fall of this policy in the 1990s? This paper examines this question, arguing that while effective mobilisation by women in the labou…
Female leadership and welfare state reform: The development of Australia’s first national paid parental leave scheme
The Howard Government’s commitment to supporting the male breadwinner policy model was a major barrier to the efforts of female political leaders to influence the development of a national paid parental leave scheme. Associated with this model was the argument that paid parental leave ‘discriminated’ against non-working women and devalued their contribution to society as mothers. Despite a change of government in 2007 this argument remained influ…
Gender and Citizenship in Australia: Government Approaches to Paid Parental Leave Policy 1996–2017
In Western welfare states women’s citizenship rights are increasingly conferred on the basis of labor force participation rather than maternalism. This article examines the policy positions and discourse associated with paid parental leave of successive Australian governments from 1996 to 2017 to examine the extent to which this has occurred in the Australian context. It reveals a slow movement away from maternalism that has been constrained by p…
Beyond ‘get big or get out’: Female farmers' responses to the cost-price squeeze of Australian agriculture
Tempered disruption: Gender and agricultural professional services
Agriculture has traditionally been framed as men's work, while women's contributions to the sector have largely been rendered invisible. This article examines the emerging agricultural professional services sector, asking how a changing environment for agriculture may be disrupting traditional gender norms framing agricultural employment. Drawing together the literature in gender and agriculture, professional services and entrepreneurship and int…
Disrupted gender roles in Australian agriculture: First generation female farmers’ construction of farming identity
Characterizing the changing profile of employment in Australian agriculture
Intergenerational farm succession: How does gender fit
Changing scripts: Gender, family farm succession and increasing farm values in Australia
In this paper we explore contemporary farm succession processes in Australia, with a particular focus on understanding how changing gender norms and increasing asset values may be impacting common patterns of farm ownership. We describe how social scripts inflect traditional patterns of farm succession and review what makes up a ‘family farm’, the changing economic environment in which family farms operate and take a deeper look at the traditiona…
The “dreaded” daughter-in-law in Australian farm business succession
Egalitarian gender norms and legislative rights to property may be a threat to the successful intergenerational transfer of the family farm. This article examines how the land holding generation perceives the role of daughters-in-law in reproducing the family farm. We examine the site of farm succession and intergenerational transfer. We draw on interviews with 22 farm succession professionals. Our analysis demonstrates the land holding generatio…
More Lessons of the Accord: The 1986-87 Plumbers' Union Dispute
The early phases of the Price and Incomes Accord sought to constrain money-wage increases in order to reduce the rate of inflation. Despite this, in 1986 and 1987 the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees' Union of Australia engaged in industrial action to pressure employers into increasing wages. Using this case study, we examine the capacity for individual trade union agency for wage increases in the context of Accord Mark II. The article draws on …
Recognition but few rewards: A 40-year review of the impact of the Australian women in agriculture movement
Despite women’s contribution to the viability of Australian family farming, there is gendered inequality in access to cultural recognition and economic rewards. This article examines the extent to which the Australian rural women’s movement challenged the state to respond to this inequality. It focuses on the period 1983–2024 and finds evidence of effective claim-making by the rural women’s movement for cultural recognition as partners in the far…
Fitting in and standing firm: New, alternative women farmers in Australia and the Netherlands
How is hegemonic agriculture produced, reproduced and challenged at the mesosocial level? We explore this question by examining the experiences of 37 farmers in Australia and the Netherlands who are ‘other’ in hegemonic agriculture: They are women, new to farming and engaged in alternative agriculture. Their experience of navigating their otherness in traditional mesosocial agricultural spaces demonstrates that masculinity, productivism and longe…
Identifying the Gender Order within Neoliberal Australian Agricultural Policy
Neoliberal states construct gender roles, gender norms, and gender orders in ways that reflect and legitimate the logic of the market. This study examines state interventions within the population of Australian women in agriculture and rural communities from 2013–20. It investigates the rationale, gendered symbolic spatial representation of tasks, types of interventions, and the characteristics promoted by policies and programs. Three ideal subje…
Rural development and sustainability (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Agriculture (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Business (4 works)