Sexual life & gender relations
Articles
- Gender and Race Relations in Elizabeth O’Conner’s Northern Homesteads
This article examines Elizabeth O’Conner’s seven books, published between 1958 and 1980, as works which functioned ideologically to implement a desire in post-World War II…
1 May 2003 - 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 - Romance Australia: Love in Australian Literature of Exploration
Using three Australian novels of exploration as examples, I should like to suggest that the romance of exploration is invariably the romance of love but…
1 October 1987 - Shame in Ruth Park’s Inner Sydney Novels
Ruth Park’s inner Sydney novels explore the place of shame in mid-twentieth-century working-class lives, alert to the intersection of class with gender and race. Park…
3 October 2024 - Traps of womanhood: Reproductive coercion in Ruth Park’s Harp in the South (1948) and The Witch’s Thorn (1951)
The Harp in the South, Park’s best known novel set in Sydney’s Surry Hills, and the lesser-known The Witch’s Thorn, set in a…
3 October 2024