Feminist theory
Articles
- ‘Unexpected Effects’: Marked Men in Contemporary Australian Women’s Fiction
The author critiques the ways in which a set of novels by women writers published in the period 1980-2005 represent ‘wounded men’, and analyses the…
1 October 2006 - Review of Rewriting God: Spirituality in Contemporary Australian Women 's Fiction, by Elaine Lindsay, and Feminist Poetics of the Sacred: Creative Suspicions, edited by Frances Devlin-Gass and Lynn McCredden
It is not only global weather patterns that are changing, it seems. It is hard to imagine being asked to review two books dealing with…
1 May 2002 - Re-Writing Woman: Genre Politics and Female Identity in Kate Grenville’s Dreamhouse
As a feminist Qovel of self-discovery, Dreamhouse works within a framework of realism, put also draws on the codes and conventions of a number of…
1 May 1993 - Manifesto of the Senses: Blind Sightedness in Christina Stead’s For Love Alone
‘What I aim to show in this essay is how and with what personal and political force the narrative re-presents the reading process itself, how…
1 October 2009