Feminism

A broad mapping of the development of Australian literary feminisms in light of literary feminisms elsewhere and, more locally, in relation to the development of…

Speaking provisionally and in mutuality, I want to explore some continuing elements for feminism as a mode of cultural critique and intervention, both for literary…

This essay offers a comparative textual analysis of Phyllis Chesler's Letters to a Young Feminist (1998) and Anne Summers' 'Letter to the Next Generation' (1994)…

The sea is the amniotic fluid of our gestation as individuals and as a species, and the watery grave of drowned men. When we crawled…

'Eva, Franklin and Kevin exemplify not just the absence at the heart of discourses of 'the family' , but the emptiness of the rhetoric of…

The reception of Valerie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto (1967) is over-determined by an event that has come to eclipse its critical legacy in the history of…

'The roman à clef dangerously teased the conventions of realism, flaunting its elitism and the need for a knowing reader. As a genre, it seemed…

Kirkby discusses Miles Franklin's time in Chicago and the intersection there of her political and literary activities. Kirkby argues that Franklin's work in the American…

Considers My Brilliant Career in terms of Franklin's dual commitments to literature and politics: 'Could it be argued ... that Miles Franklin was so committedly…

The study of feminist cultural memory is not a wide field of scholarship in Australia and it certainly bas not as yet become a distinctive…

This essay reads the novel of expatriate colonial writer Rosa Praed, Outlaw and Lawmaker (1893), as an intervention in the public debate about the Irish…

This challenging addition to the field of literary history is the work of a historian more preoccupied with feminist and political issues than with literary…

The position of women is changing and sexual difference is problematic in social political, economic and cultural practice and theory. The title of Who is…

Discusses the representation of feminist activism in some contemporary women’s autobiographies, focussing on Susan Ryan’s Catching the Waves (1999), Wendy McCarthy’s Don’t Fence Me In…

In paying tribute to Dorothy Green, Sheridan recalls the generation of women writers and artists who emerged in the 1940s and 1950s, their social visions…

Nine Lives: Postwar Women Writers Making Their Mark itself marks and builds on a robust tradition of scholarship on the gendered cultural history of Australia…

It's now over two years since Helen Gamer's The First Stone was published, producing widespread media controversy, healthy sales, and offering an aestheticised and potent…

Argues that Rodriguez's poetry is defined by a 'double debt: both to Romanticism's prophetic, empowered rhetoric, and to Modernism's growing doubts about the limits and…

When it was known that another study of Louisa Lawson was to be published, there was a small flurry of expectation, especially amongst feminist historians…

Discusses the necessity for a theory of Australian woman's culture through which to read Australian novels authored by women. Drawing on insights from Virginia Woolf…