Margaret Henderson

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 Australian literary studies illuminates the complex state of contemporary literary feminisms in this country: how…

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 (2000), and Anne Summer’s Ducks on the Pond (1999). The article concludes with a ficto-critical…

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. In this sense, tl1en, perhaps we can say that Rutherford's text is itself sometlling of…

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 108). The suburbs represent a particular set of problems for their female inhabitants, a specifically…