20 Introduction Police,Prisons,Military (p.14).Australian figures from Social Indicators,(1984),pp.263, 273.United States figures from Statistical Abstract,(1980,1985). Part I International comparisons on prisons from Hcron House Book of Numbers (London:Pelham Books,1979),p.323.Military figures: Australia,Year Book Australia,(1984),p.45;NATO,Chapkis (1981), p.88;United States Statistical Abstract,(1980),p.375. Theorizing Gender State Office-holders (pp.14-16).Newland (1975)is an excellent general source on women's participation in the political system,though narrowly defined;the quotation is from p.33.Other sources of figures quoted:Australia, Federal Court Library;Sawer (1985).United States,Stille (1986); Hacker (1983)and Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report,(10 November 1984).India,Japan and Italy,letters from respective embassics.Soviet Union,Perchenok (1985).Britain,Central Office of Information, Women in Britain,(1984)