Rethinking the Victim: Gender and Violence in Contemporary Australian Women's Writing

ISBN-13: 9780367786786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 240 str.

Anne Brewster; Sue Kossew

Opis

Arguing that gendered violence is inflected with sexuality, class, race, ethnicity and many other factors,this book rethinks victimhood and agency from a feminist perspective and resists the spectacularization of violence against women often graphically depicted in cinema, news and pornography.

Spis treści

Introduction.  Chapter 1: Intimate Violations: Gothic and Romance.  Chapter 2: Violence Against Women and Girls: Indigenous women’s activist poetry.  Chapter 3: Broken Families, Vulnerable Children.  Chapter 4: War and Political Violence.  Conclusion.

O autorze

Associate Professor Anne Brewster is at the University of New South Wales. Her books include Giving This Country a Memory: Contemporary Aboriginal Voices of Australia, (2015), Literary Formations: Postcoloniality, Nationalism, Globalism (1996) and Reading Aboriginal Women's Autobiography (1995, 2015). She is series editor for Australian Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

Professor Sue Kossew is Chair of English/Literary Studies at Monash University. Her research is in contemporary postcolonial and women’s literatures, particularly J.M. Coetzee and contemporary Australian and South African women writers. Her books include Writing Woman, Writing Place: Australian and South African Fiction (Routledge, 2004). She is co-editing Reading Coetzee’s Women.