The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.
Latest Issues
AbstractHistoryArchive Description
'Women & Children (2023) is set in a fictionalised working-class suburb of Melbourne, with a “reputation for hard men and their crimes, from robbery and violence on the street to family violence behind closed doors” (4) in the mid-1960s. This statement introduces the main premise of the novel which is how women and children survive in a family, more expressly, how they survive the men in their families. Women & Children was published in the year before Australians took to the streets to decry our almost 30% national increase in domestic violence, most of which is carried out by men,1 and significantly shifts the conversation about gender- based violence being a “women’s problem” to a whole-of-society problem.'
(Introduction)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Last amended 3 Jan 2025 13:51:56
https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/20451/17200
Tony Birch. Women & Children
JASAL
JASAL
