Gender roles
Articles
- Contesting Enslavement: Marriage, Manhood and My Brilliant Career
Tracks the troubled relationships between Sybylla Melwyn and the men in My Brilliant Career, arguing that 'there is something more to male-female relations in…
1 October 2002 - Neither Here Nor There: Suburban Voices in Australian Poetry
Despite over three decades of critical discourse on Australian suburbia Australian poetry on the subject seems strangely under-represented Television and tupperware, not terza rima, are…
1 November 1998 - Charismatic Masculinity in David Malouf’s Fiction
This examination of charismatic masculinity and the representation of gender in Malouf’s fiction concentrates on the short story collection Every Move You Make.
1 May 2010 - At a Distance
Discusses Australian expatriation and the 'European journey' typical of young Australian women, in the context of the author's own expatriation and with reference to Ros…
1 May 1999 - Edgy Laughter: Women and Australian Humour
Regardless of whether they accepted or utterly rejected their imposed role as members of God's police and gatekeepers of the social class structure, women have…
1 October 1993 - The Self and the Magic Lantern: Gender and Subjectivity in Australian Colonial Women’s Writing [1992]
Displaced from all that is familiar, the colonial subject experiences disorientation; a confusion which is represented in the dislocating experience of emigration and the ambivalent…
1 May 1992 - Body in the Vault: The Unpublished Novels of Eve Langley
Within the Mitchell Library inside the State Library of New South Wales lie the manuscripts of ten novels submitted by Eve Langley to Angus &…
1 May 1993 - An Interview with Tim Winton
Winton discusses his career, literary influences, and approach to form and style.
1 October 1996 - Towards an Aesthetics of Australian Women’s Fiction: My Brilliant Career and The Getting of Wisdom
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…
1 October 1983 - What Can Be Read and What Can Only Be Seen in Tim Winton’s Fiction
Discusses Winton's fiction, including That Eye, The Sky in terms of vision, time, gender and language, arguing that the work is animated by a set…
1 October 1996 - Gender, Genre, and Sybylla’s Performative Identity in Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career
Sybylla Melvyn, narrator of Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career (1901), has troubled readers from the start. William Blackwood, editor, felt impelled to 'tone down' her…
1 October 1997 - Judith Wright and Frank Scott: Gendering Modernist Networks in Australia and Canada
Lang compares the early careers of Judith Wright and Canadian poet F. R. Scott, paying particular attention to their relationship with modernism and little magazines…
1 October 2006 - Along Gender Lines: Reassessing Relationships between Australian Novels, Gender and Genre from 1939 to 2006
Using AustLit database records, the author examines the number and proportion of Australian novels published from 1930 to 2006 by wo/men, the genre of these…
1 October 2009 - The Pursuit of Oblivion: In Flight from Suburbia
This essay is an exploration of the suburban imaginary in David Ireland's The Glass Canoe (1976), Bruce Dawe's Condolences of the Season (1971) and Christos…
1 November 1998 - Subdivisions of Suburbia: The Politics of Place in Melissa Lucashenko’s Steam Pigs and Amanda Lohrey’s Camille’s Bread
The Australian intelligentsia's critical or ambivalent response to the suburbs and suburbia has been well-documented, though the gender-blindness of urban theorising often goes unremarked (Harman…
1 November 1998 - Suburban Sonnets: ‘Mrs Harwood’, Miriam Stone and Domestic Modernity
Discusses Gwen Harwood's approach to suburban life and domestic modernity, particularly in her satirical and pseudonymous poems. 'Despite her clear apprehension that, in the world's…
1 October 2007 - A Gendered Bush: Mansfield and Australian Drovers’ Wives
Discusses contemporary rewritings of Lawson's 'The Drover's Wife', including versions by Murray Bail, Frank Moorhouse, Barbara Jefferis, Anna Gambling and Ola Masters/ Argues that these…
1 June 1991 - Is Phallocentricity a Sin? or a Peccadillo?: Comedy and Gender in Ethel Anderson’s At Parramatta and Patrick White’s Voss
What I want to explore in this essay is the wit with which, in Voss, White responds to the challenge and to the gender…
1 June 1991
Contributors
- Delys Bird
- Delys Bird
- Katherine Bode
- Bruce A. Clunies Ross
- Isabel Carrera-Suarez
- Lucy Frost
- Stephen Garton
- Ian Henderson
- Margaret Henderson
- Dorothy Jones
- Joan Kirkby
- Anouk Lang
- David McCooey
- Don Randall
- Susan Sheridan
- Angela Smith
- Andrew Taylor
- Andrew Taylor
- Tim Winton