Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Review of Rethinking the Victim : Gender and Violence in Contemporary Australian Women’s Writing
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'As the world watches the horrifying spectacle of Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine and confronts the possibility of a third world war, we find ourselves entangled in what Slavoj Žižek in his book Violence: Six Sideways Reflections has called “the fascinating lure of … directly visible ‘subjective’ violence, violence performed by a clearly identifiable agent”. Anne Brewster and Sue Kossew’s book, Rethinking the Victim: Gender and Violence in Contemporary Australian Women’s Writing, is particularly timely because it directs our attention to the everyday, intimate violence that befalls women and children, as represented in Australian literature. Brewster and Kossew note “the linking of intersubjective and intimate violence with global violence” (229) in contemporary discussions of gendered violence. The searing accounts of such violence that they unearth in Australian women’s literature, particularly in the work of Indigenous and minoritised women writers, reveals something symptomatic of the machismo that fuels the violence of strongmen such as Putin.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Journal of Australian Studies vol. 46 no. 4 2022 25607953 2022 periodical issue

    'Welcome to the final issue of the Journal of Australian Studies for 2022. We are pleased to finish the year with a wide-ranging, robust issue that includes a special section focusing on China–Australia relations—which remains a dynamic and transforming terrain in Australian studies—as well as three general contributions that collectively demonstrate the diversity and strength of contemporary research in and beyond the field.' (Recovery, Collaboration and Oceanic Flows : Brigid Magner and Emily Potter, Introduction)

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    pg. 542-543
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