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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Rebellious Daughters : True Stories from Australia's Finest Female Writers
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'Good daughters hold their tongues, obey their elders and let their families determine their destiny. Rebellious daughters are just the opposite.

'In Rebellious Daughters, some of Australia’s most talented female writers share intimate and touching stories of rebellion and independence as they defy the expectations of parents and society to find their place in the world.

'Powerful, funny and poignant, these stories explore everything from getting caught in seedy nightclubs to lifelong family conflicts and marrying too young. Beautifully written, profoundly honest and always relatable, every story is a unique retelling that celebrates the rebellious daughter within us all.

'Not every woman is a mother, grandmother, aunty or sister – but all women are daughters.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Epigraph: 'Families fling us into intimacy, into shared odours, a whole sensual archive of warm water and bitter tonics, inherited underwear, the balm of another's touch.' - Mandy Sayer

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Edgecliff, Sydney Eastern Harbourside, Sydney Eastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Ventura Press , 2016 .
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      Extent: vii, 322 pp.
      Note/s:
      • Published August 2016
      ISBN: 9781925183528

Works about this Work

A Review of Maria Katsonis and Lee Kofman’s ‘Rebellious Daughters’ Samantha Allemann , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2017 2017;

— Review of Rebellious Daughters : True Stories from Australia's Finest Female Writers 2016 anthology autobiography
Wonder Tales Jessica Gildersleeve , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 21 no. 1 2017;

'In her contribution to Maria Katsonis and Lee Kofman’s collection, Rebellious Daughters: True Stories from Australia’s Finest Female Writers (2016), Krissy Kneen cites fairy-tale scholar Marina Warner, who notes that the original term for the fairy tale was Wundermärchen, the wonder tale. ‘To wonder’, writes Warner, ‘communicates the receptive state of marvelling as well as the active desire to know, to inquire’ (40). In the same way, Kneen observes, the (often horrific) fairy tales told to her by her grandmother, stories which did not at all adhere to the philosophy of characters who lived ‘happily ever after’, filled the young girl ‘with a powerful and dangerous curiosity’ (40). It is that desire to know, that epistemophilia, which not only drives the women and girls of the stories collected here, but those about whom they read, and whom we now, in this collection, voraciously follow, hungry for knowledge, for endings happy or otherwise.' (Introduction)

Maria Katsonis and Lee Kofman (Eds) Rebellious Daughters : True Stories From Australia’s Finest Female Writers Shelley McInnis , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , August 2016;

— Review of Rebellious Daughters : True Stories from Australia's Finest Female Writers 2016 anthology autobiography
Good Girls Can Be Troublemakers Too Dianne Dempsey , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 28 August 2016; (p. 28)

— Review of Rebellious Daughters : True Stories from Australia's Finest Female Writers 2016 anthology autobiography
Much to Savour in Feast of the Familial Dianne Dempsey , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 20-21 August 2016; (p. 31)

— Review of Rebellious Daughters : True Stories from Australia's Finest Female Writers 2016 anthology autobiography
Much to Savour in Feast of the Familial Dianne Dempsey , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 20-21 August 2016; (p. 31)

— Review of Rebellious Daughters : True Stories from Australia's Finest Female Writers 2016 anthology autobiography
Good Girls Can Be Troublemakers Too Dianne Dempsey , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 28 August 2016; (p. 28)

— Review of Rebellious Daughters : True Stories from Australia's Finest Female Writers 2016 anthology autobiography
Maria Katsonis and Lee Kofman (Eds) Rebellious Daughters : True Stories From Australia’s Finest Female Writers Shelley McInnis , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , August 2016;

— Review of Rebellious Daughters : True Stories from Australia's Finest Female Writers 2016 anthology autobiography
Review : Rebellious Daughters: True Stories from Australia’s Finest Female Writers Judith Grace , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Good Reading , September 2016; (p. 50)

— Review of Rebellious Daughters : True Stories from Australia's Finest Female Writers 2016 anthology autobiography
Tales of Resistance from the Family Front Sarah Dempster , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 15-16 October 2016; (p. 24)

— Review of Rebellious Daughters : True Stories from Australia's Finest Female Writers 2016 anthology autobiography
To Women Sowing Their Wild Oats Anastasia Tsirtsakis , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: Neos Kosmos , 27 July 2016;
The Allure of Rebellion Anastasia Tsirtsakis , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: Neos Kosmos , 12 September 2016;
Wonder Tales Jessica Gildersleeve , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 21 no. 1 2017;

'In her contribution to Maria Katsonis and Lee Kofman’s collection, Rebellious Daughters: True Stories from Australia’s Finest Female Writers (2016), Krissy Kneen cites fairy-tale scholar Marina Warner, who notes that the original term for the fairy tale was Wundermärchen, the wonder tale. ‘To wonder’, writes Warner, ‘communicates the receptive state of marvelling as well as the active desire to know, to inquire’ (40). In the same way, Kneen observes, the (often horrific) fairy tales told to her by her grandmother, stories which did not at all adhere to the philosophy of characters who lived ‘happily ever after’, filled the young girl ‘with a powerful and dangerous curiosity’ (40). It is that desire to know, that epistemophilia, which not only drives the women and girls of the stories collected here, but those about whom they read, and whom we now, in this collection, voraciously follow, hungry for knowledge, for endings happy or otherwise.' (Introduction)

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