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Alternative title: Manifesting Australian Literary Feminisms
Issue Details: First known date: 2009... vol. 24 no. 3-4 October/November 2009 of Australian Literary Studies est. 1963 Australian Literary Studies
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2009 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Generations Lost and Found : Reading Women Writers Together, Susan Sheridan , single work criticism
The articles discusses reading a group of women writers together as a manifestation of literary feminism. It focuses on Australian women born between 1912 and 1928 which were often overlooked in their own lifetime, particularly in the decades after the Second World War, and mostly did not know each other.
 (p. 39-52)
Manifesto of the Senses : Blind Sightedness in Christina Stead's For Love Alone, Brigid Rooney , single work criticism
'What I aim to show in this essay is how and with what personal and political force the narrative re-presents the reading process itself, how it demands the reader's active co-operation and interpretation, to the point of entrapping us in blindness - or rather in a blind sightedness - that doubles that of its protagonist, Teresa Hawkins. In so doing, the novel performs the questions it poses about romance and realism, idealism and materialism, and conveys, inter alia, its response to mid-twentieth century debates about the literature of revolution.' (53-54)
 (p. 53-65)
Reading Institutional Women : A Nexus Approach to Bourdieu, Summer Heights High, and the Fiction of Elizabeth Jolley, Larissa McLean-Davies , single work criticism
The essay uses Bourdieu's theories to show the ways in which some key female characters in institutions in Lilley's Summer Heights High and Jolley's fiction support the workings of institutional patriarchal power. In the final section, the author draws on the concept of 'heterotopia', in order to discuss the ways in which 'these texts contest masculine institutional paradigms, and explore the limits and possibilities of the alternative views offered by these fictions' (74).
 (p. 66-78)
Along Gender Lines : Reassessing Relationships between Australian Novels, Gender and Genre from 1939 to 2006, Katherine Bode , single work criticism
Using AustLit database records, the author examines the number and proportion of Australian novels published from 1930 to 2006 by wo/men, the genre of these novels, and possible trends revealed. The essay concentrates on the implications of a quantitive reassessment of Australian literary history for feminist understandings of that history.
 (p. 79-95)
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Indigenous Sovereignty in the Poetry of Romaine Moreton, Anne Brewster , single work criticism
'In this essay, I examine the ways in which Moreton's literary oeuvre figures Indigeneity through the trope of sovereignty while also foregrounding the gendered nature of Indigenous subjectivity' (108).
 (p. 108-120)
The Significance of Littoral in Beverley Farmer's Novel The Seal Woman, Anne Collett , single work criticism
This essay 'offers some thoughts on the transformative possibility of the littoral in Beverley Farmer's novel The Seal Woman, and a brief discussion of Farmer's particular deployment of littoral as feminine or even feminist' (121).
 (p. 121-132)
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