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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).
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Reading Institutional Women : A Nexus Approach to Bourdieu, Summer Heights High, and the Fiction of Elizabeth Jolley
Australian Literary Studies
Australian Literary Studies
Subjects:
- Summer Heights High 2007 single work film/TV
- Mr Scobie's Riddle 1983 single work novel
- Miss Peabody's Inheritance 1983 single work novel
- Foxybaby 1985 single work novel
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