Margaret Henderson

Manifesting Literary Feminisms: Nexus and Faultlines

A broad mapping of the development of Australian literary feminisms in light of literary feminisms elsewhere and, more locally, in relation to the development of…

1 November 2009

Margaret Henderson

The Tidiest Revolution : Regulative Feminist Autobiography and the De-Facement of the Australian Women’s Movement

Discusses the representation of feminist activism in some contemporary women’s autobiographies, focussing on Susan Ryan’s Catching the Waves (1999), Wendy McCarthy’s Don’t Fence Me In …

1 May 2002

Margaret Henderson

Review of The Gauche Intruder: Freud, Lacan and the White Australian Fantasy, by Jennifer Rutherford.

Jennifer Rutherford's The Gauche Intruder is one of tl1e few works of Australian cultural critique to use Lacanian psychoanalysis in detail as methodology and framework…

1 May 2002

Margaret Henderson

Subdivisions of Suburbia: The Politics of Place in Melissa Lucashenko’s ‘Steam Pigs’ and Amanda Lohrey’s ‘Camille’s Bread’

The Australian intelligentsia's critical or ambivalent response to the suburbs and suburbia has been well-documented, though the gender-blindness of urban theorising often goes unremarked (Harman…

1 November 1998

Margaret Henderson

Review of Bodyjamming: Sexual Harassment, Feminism and Public Life, edited by Jenna Mead.

1 May 1998