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Along the faultlines : sex, race, and nation in Australian women's writing, 1880s-1930s / Susan Sheridan.

Title
Along the faultlines : sex, race, and nation in Australian women's writing, 1880s-1930s / Susan Sheridan.
Author
Sheridan, Susan.
Publication
St. Leonards, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 1995.

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Description
xv, 188 p.; 22 cm.
Subject
  • Geschichte 1880-1940
  • 1800-1999
  • Australian literature > Women authors > History and criticism
  • Sex in literature
  • Race in literature
  • Nationalism in literature
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-181) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Pt. I. The Sexual Politics of Romantic Fiction. 1. Ada Cambridge and the female literary tradition. 2. Gender and genre in Barbara Baynton's Human Toll. 3. 'Temper, romantic; bias, offensively feminine': Australian women writers and literary nationalism. 4. Rewriting romance: the literary, sexual and cultural politics of women's fiction in the 1890s. 5. The romance of experience: the early twentieth century -- Pt. II. Feminist Journalism and the Politics of Nationhood. 6. Louisa Lawson, Miles Franklin and feminist writing. 7. Feminism and socialism: The Worker in the 1890s. 8. 'Mothers of the race' or 'working for the army'? Women and the Worker, 1908-1931 -- Pt. III. Race and Nation in Women's Writing. 9. 'Wives and mothers like ourselves, poor remnants of a dying race': Aborigines in colonial women's writing. 10. Mary Gilmore's and Katharine Prichard's representations of Aborigines. 11. 'My dear fellow Australians': women addressing the nation -- Concluding on a question: Are we postcolonial yet?
ISBN
1863738673
LCCN
^^^95196032^
OCLC
  • 33929936
  • SCSB-11301108
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library