Research Catalog

Title

Distorted bodies and suffering souls : women in Australian fiction, 1984-1994 / Chantal Kwast-Greff.

Author

Kwast-Greff, Chantal.

Publication

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2013.

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Details

Description

xv, 325 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Cross/cultures ; 160

Uniform Title

Cross/cultures ; 160.

Subject

• Australian fiction > History and criticism
• Anorexia nervosa in literature
• Infanticide in literature
• Self-mutilation > In literature
• Women in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-308) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

"Women are not maniacs by nature." Of patriarchy, colonization, and the church ; A complex web of systematic oppression ; Beauty and the beast -- Fathers and husbands. Of power and contempt ; Big bad wolves and sex ; Virgins ; Baddies and daddies ; Mothers ; Daughters ; Incest -- Victims: the other and the self ; A conclusion of sorts ; Women, victims of themselves -- Suffering souls and distorted bodies. Of dolls, puppets, and masters and slaves ; Dream-paradise ; Private ceremonies and rituals ; Saints, angels and food ; Wrist-cutters and others ; Wounds and blood and baby-killers -- Unacceptable behaviours and their cures. Unacceptable behaviours, says who? ; Cures: the good fuck and pull up your socks ; Doctors and hospital ; And patriarchy -- Women write about women. About writing madness ; Text and manipulations ; Langage and voice, frames and boxes ; The mirror and the text ; Écriture feminine -- A risky business. Of puppets and puppet-masters ; Writers with a mission -- Writing. Mad women in Australia today -- Conclusion. Women who fight win ; Eventually ; It is good to be a woman

ISBN

• 9042036621
• 9789042036628

LCCN

^^2013409991

OCLC

839661096

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library