Shirley Tucker Shirley Tucker i(A19583 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Untitled Shirley Tucker , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 22 no. 2 2005; (p. 264-265)

— Review of Austral-Asian Encounters : From Literature and Women's Studies to Politics and Tourism 2003 anthology criticism prose
1 The Great Southern Land : Asian-Australian Women Writers Re-View the Australian Landscape Shirley Tucker , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 21 no. 2 2003; (p. 178-188)
Tucker examines the representation of landscape in Asian-Australian women's writing in terms of the aesthetics of Australian literature.
1 Life in a World of Mirrors Shirley Tucker , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 13 no. 2 2002;

— Review of Playing Madam Mao 2000 single work novel
1 What Do You Mean By Your Country? Shirley Tucker , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 14 no. 1 2002;

— Review of How Simone de Beauvoir Died in Australia Sylvia Lawson , 2002 selected work short story essay criticism
1 y separately published work icon Australian Women's Book Review AWBR vol. 13 no. 1 Carole Ferrier (editor), Shirley Tucker (editor), Susan Carson (editor), St Lucia : Hecate Press , 2001 Z911314 2001 periodical issue
1 Beyond Belief : Representation and Revolt in Lillian Ng's Swallowing Clouds Shirley Tucker , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Otherland , no. 7 2001; (p. 125-143)
1 Your Worst Nightmare: Hybridised Demonology in Asian-Australian Women's Writing Shirley Tucker , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 65 2000; (p. 150-157)
This essay examines historical and contemporary fictional representations of Asian women and locates their 'unheimlich' counterparts in alternative portraits of, and by, Asian-Australian women writers.
1 Land and Identities Shirley Tucker , 1998 single work column
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 150 1998; (p. 102-103)
1 Xenophobia? Please Explain Shirley Tucker , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 148 1997; (p. 82-83)

— Review of Astronauts, Lost Souls &​ Dragons : Voices of Today's Chinese Australians Diana Giese , 1997 single work interview ; The Year the Dragon Came 1996 selected work interview
1 Jury Service Shirley Tucker , 1997 single work short story
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 23 no. 2 1997; (p. 158-159) Hibiscus and Ti-Tree : Women in Queensland 2009; (p. 266-267)
'Divorced, fortyish, two children, a dog, and a thesis begun some years ago', a Brisbane woman's initial response to an invitation to Jury service is to decline - an option only available to her because she is a woman. However, she resists succumbing to such a gender-biased option and accepts, and is distressed when confronted with the casualties of a society in which male power and abuse seem rife.
1 Out of Context : Transplanted Characters in Pauline Chan's Traps Shirley Tucker , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Rubicon , vol. 1 no. 2 1995; (p. 78-89)
This article discusses 'transplanted characters'and examines the effect moving Grenville's characters in Dreamhouse from Europe to Asia has on possible readings of Traps.
1 Natural Selection Shirley Tucker , 1989 single work short story
— Appears in: Westerly , March vol. 34 no. 1 1989; (p. 59-63)
1 3 y separately published work icon Australian Women's Book Review AWBR Sara White (editor), Michelle De Kretser (editor), Barbara Brook (editor), Michèle Grossman (editor), Barbara Brook (editor), Carole Ferrier (editor), Susan Carson (editor), Shirley Tucker (editor), Carole Ferrier (editor), 1989 Melbourne : Australian Women's Book Review , 1989-1992 Z911078 1989 periodical (62 issues)

Before the establishment of the Australian Women's Book Review, new books on feminist issues from small presses were mainly reviewed by a few small magazines such as Hecate. In the established literary magazines or other mainstream publications such books were reviewed inadequately or not at all. In 1989, hoping to provide a stable periodical for a more comprehensive review of new women's writing from Australia and overseas, Sara White and Michelle de Kretser produced the first issues of the Australian Women's Book Review.

From the first issues, the editors aimed to publish 'accessible, intelligent writing that will offer a range of books by women to a broad readership'. Reviews addressed a range of general areas such as fiction, poetry, history, biography, health, sexuality, social and cultural issues, and literature for children and adolescents. Regular review essays and feature articles provided deeper analyses and special issues have concentrating on geographical regions such as New Zealand, India, Africa and Singapore.

During the 1990s, the Australian Women's Book Review secured several advertisers and sponsors to support production costs and provide payment to contributors. The magazine's publication by the Victoria University of Technology (1992-1997) also provided some security, but the failure of an application to the Literature Board in 1997 caused some concern for the future of the magazine. Closure was avoided when Carole Ferrier offered to publish the Australian Women's Book Review under the auspices of Hecate at the University of Queensland.

Since moving to the University of Queensland, the Australian Women's Book Review has gone online (in 2000) and is now freely available on the internet. It remains the only Australian book review in print or online that is devoted to women's writing.

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