Sexuality & sexual identity

White’s professions of his sexuality can be seen as attesting to the intertwined, if sometimes conlicting, impulses to confess aspects of one’s private life, and…

Advances the view that the experience of insensation by the main character in Fredy Neptune is linked to Murray’s own painful experiences of sexual teasing…

There is something queer about quotation, and something creepy too. To quote is to deconstruct the alleged distinction between speech spoken by me ('my' speech)…

Langley undoubtedly presents difficulties, not least in the sticky, inextricable link between her own life, its troubled gender identity, incarceration in a mental health institution…

On March 13 1946, Robert Close sat on a wooden bench in the Victorian Supreme Court, and listened to his novel being read aloud. Copies…

At a crucial point in 'The Bathe: a grotesque', the opening story of a series which Henry Handel Richardson named 'Growing Pains: sketches of girlhood'…

David Marr's monumental biography of Patrick White invites a rereading of White's novels. Marr, like any good biographer intent on revealing the life rather than…

The popularity and authority of Annamarie Jagose's Queer Theory (1996) in contemporary literary and cultural studies, as well as among gay and lesbian readers, make…

‘I want to propose that the incertitudes of Furphy’s magnum opus provide the observant queer reader with an arousing focus on the late-nineteenth-century making of…

Feminist re-readings and literary excavations of Praed's corpus and life have elided, or simply failed to consider worthy of analysis, her occult novels and beliefs…

As a feminist Qovel of self-discovery, Dreamhouse works within a framework of realism, put also draws on the codes and conventions of a number of…

Mead examines the poetry of Charles Harpur in terms of the poet’s attempt to move from colonial to national modes of expression. Mead proceeds by…

While Patrick White's writing is often vehemently anti-suburban, it is seldom interested in simplistic notions of physical escape or flight. On the contrary, White's resistance…

Our first scene is a Western Sydney suburban lounge-room seventeen years ago. It is very clean and tidy and full of shelves and little tables…

What I want to explore in this essay is the wit with which, in Voss, White responds to the challenge and to the gender…

In 1998 Michelle Grossman’s overview of Indigenous women’s writing explored the significant contribution that life writing had made to the country’s literatures and pondered where…

Emily Maguire is a Sydney-based author who has written six novels, three non-fiction books and numerous articles on feminism, culture and literature. Her early novels…

On the 14th of December 1972, a schoolteacher named Helen Garner found herself fired. This essay argues that the terms of Garner’s firing inform the…

The 2017 Marriage Law Postal Survey marked a historic moment for the gay community in Australia, as it resulted in same-sex unions being recognised under…