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'Michelle Dicinoski has found the love of her life, and now she just wants to get married and live happily ever after. The only problem is, she's in love with an American woman, Heather, and neither Australia nor America recognises same-sex marriage. What to do when love and the law collide? For Michelle, the answer is clear: go to Canada and get hitched there.

'Ghost Wife is the deep, funny, heartwarming and brave story of that trip. Along the way, Michelle reflects on why anyone would want to get married anyway, on the power of acceptance, and on the startling stories she uncovers in her family's past. She investigates the hidden worlds of people who live their lives outside social norms, sometimes illegally. Michelle doesn't want to disappear, not from her family and not from society. But living in Australia, will she always be a ghost wife?' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Heather, the boldest

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    • Collingwood, Fitzroy - Collingwood area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Black Inc. , 2013 .
      person or book cover
      Image courtesy of Black Inc.
      Extent: 214p.
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      • Publication date : 27/02/2013
      ISBN: 9781863955959 (pbk.)

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— Review of Ghost Wife : A Memoir of Love and Defiance Michelle Dicinoski , 2013 single work autobiography
Giving Voice to Illicit Union Fran Metcalf , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier Mail , 2-3 March 2013; (p. 21)

— Review of Ghost Wife : A Memoir of Love and Defiance Michelle Dicinoski , 2013 single work autobiography
An Intimate Take on Why Same-Sex Marriage Matters Dallas J. Baker , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 9-10 March 2013; (p. 24-25)

— Review of Ghost Wife : A Memoir of Love and Defiance Michelle Dicinoski , 2013 single work autobiography
[Untitled] Lauren Novak , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 9 March 2013; (p. 30)

— Review of Ghost Wife : A Memoir of Love and Defiance Michelle Dicinoski , 2013 single work autobiography
Stories of Our Lives Sally Browne , 2016 single work column
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Reluctant Wandering : New Mobilities in Contemporary Australian Travel Writing Kate Cantrell , 2020 single work criticism
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'Travel has always been an important trope of settler literature, central not only to colonial displacement and dispossession but to postcolonial reimaginings of identity, gender, and place. However, it was not until the early twentieth century, after the rise of literary nationalism, that a nativist form of travel writing emerged in Australia. By mid-century, there was a more established tradition due to the introduction of motor touring and a post-war boom in mass migration and tourism. In the 1970s and 1980s, Australian travel writing was chiefly preoccupied with road stories, and with narratives of risk and adventure, while in the 1990s, Indigenous writers imagined new possibilities for healing through travel writing that sought to recover ancestral connections to language and land. Today, Australian travel writing is a burgeoning subject of academic enquiry, and in Australia, as elsewhere, there is a broadening rather than narrowing perspective of what constitutes ‘travel’ writing. Recently, an upsurgence of interest in mobility studies has raised new questions, not only about the experience of moving (and being moved), but about how different theories of im/mobility are central to the way travel is practised and prohibited, and sometimes undertaken reluctantly.'

Source: Abstract

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