Women
Articles
- Woman Playwrights: A First Collection?
It is always risky to claim that this book or that, on publication has claims based on being 'the first' in its field or of…
1 May 1973 - The Australian Bush-Woman
The Government statistician estimated that at the end of 1887 there were in the colony of New South Wales about 471,000 women and girls, so…
1 October 1982 - 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 - 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 - ‘A Depressed Amor’: Richardson’s ‘The Bathe: a Grotesque’
At a crucial point in 'The Bathe: a grotesque', the opening story of a series which Henry Handel Richardson named 'Growing Pains: sketches of girlhood'…
1 May 1992 - Dying of Landscape: E.L. Grant Watson and the Australian Desert
The six, relatively neglected Australian novels of Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson, written between 1914 and 1935, present an intriguing and complex reworking of their author's…
1 May 1999 - Olivia and Chloe: Fictions of Female Friendship
In the Australian context, where the theme of male friendship, expressed through the myth of mateship, has gathered so much literary and cultural significance, it…
1 May 1989 - Thomas Keneally’s ‘Innocent’ Men
Discusses Keneally's fictional treatment of homosexuality, particularly in A Victim of the Aurora snd Bring Larks and Heroes.
1 May 1981 - Reading Institutional Women: A Nexus Approach to Bourdieu, Summer Heights High, and the Fiction of Elizabeth Jolley
The essay uses Bourdieu’s theories to show the ways in which some key female characters in institutions in Lilley’s Summer Heights High and Jolley’s fiction…
1 October 2009 - A. D. Hope and the Apocalyptic Splendour of the Sexes
Among Australian poets, few owe a greater part of their inspiration to Eros than A.D. Hope. 'Love and desire have prompted some of his best…
1 October 2000 - Transfigured Histories: Recent Novels of Patrick White and Robert Drewe
Focusing on Drewe's The Savage Crows (1976) and White's A Fringe of Leaves (1976), Stow compares the authors' approaches to history and the fictionalising of…
1 May 1979 - Rosa Praed’s Colonial Heroines
Sharkey argues that romance enabled Praed to present the colonial experience from a metropolitan point of view and intelligibly relate the circumstances of women in…
1 May 1981 - 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
Contributors
- Delys Bird
- Isabel Carrera-Suarez
- Carol Franklin
- Margaret Henderson
- Roslynn D. Haynes
- Dorothy Jones
- Dorothy Jones
- Louisa Lawson
- Frances McInherny
- Larissa McLean Davies
- Xavier Pons
- Walter Stone
- Randolph Stow
- Michael Sharkey