This volume explores the subterfuges, strategies, and choices that Australian women writers have navigated in order to challenge patriarchal stereotypes and assert themselves as writers of substance. Contextualized within the pioneering efforts of white, Aboriginal, and immigrant Australian women in initiating an alternative literary tradition, the text captures a wide range of multiracial Australian women authors' insightful reflections on crucial issues such as war and silent mourning, emergence of a Australian national heroine, racial purity and Aboriginal motherhood, communism and...
This volume explores the subterfuges, strategies, and choices that Australian women writers have navigated in order to challenge patriarchal stereo...
Demonstrates that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West. Using examples from the Middle to Far East, this anthology challenges the fascination with Eastern women as passive, abject, or sexually exotic, but also resists focusing on the veil, geisha, or Muslim women's oppression without exploring Eastern women's sexuality beyond these contexts.
Demonstrates that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West. Using examples from the Middle to Far...
Demonstrates that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West. Using examples from the Middle to Far East, this anthology challenges the fascination with Eastern women as passive, abject, or sexually exotic, but also resists focusing on the veil, geisha, or Muslim women's oppression without exploring Eastern women's sexuality beyond these contexts.
Demonstrates that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West. Using examples from the Middle to Far...
