Sexual politics
Articles
- The Tidiest Revolution: Regulative Feminist Autobiography and the De-Facement of the Australian Women’s Movement
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…
1 May 2002 - Review of Bodyjamming: Sexual Harassment, Feminism and Public Life, edited by Jenna Mead
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…
1 May 1998 - Wishing for Political Dominance: Representations of History and Community in Queer Theory
The popularity and authority of Annamarie Jagose's Queer Theory (1996) in contemporary literary and cultural studies, as well as among gay and lesbian readers, make…
1 October 2003 - 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 - Helen Garner’s Education
On the 14th of December 1972, a schoolteacher named Helen Garner found herself fired. This essay argues that the terms of Garner’s firing inform the…
28 October 2021