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'An awareness that Australian literature is actually gendered emerged with the critiques generated by the women’s liberation movement from the late 1960s onwards. Of course, there had been a strong, if sometimes neglected, tradition of women writers since the late 1800s who addressed gender as an issue for writers and publication. As a recognisable critical movement, however, it is second-wave feminist theory and criticism that established a body of work and social analysis regarding gender and literature in Australia. This chapter focuses on the development of those arguments and their implications, citing key texts and authors and their contributions to the development of the field through the structural intersections of race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, and form, since the early 1970s to the present. It thinks broadly through generational and political movements as they are filtered through institutions and technological shifts to account for limited attention to gender in contemporary literary criticism.'
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