Feminism
Gender and War: Australians at war in the twentieth century edited by Marilyn Lake and Joy Damousi
Transitions: New Australian feminisms edited by Barbara Caine and Rosemary Pringle
We are the stories we tell. We need our stories: they make us feel real. Stories give to our personal experience the particular shapes and cohesiveness we call ‘self’. When we enter into new friendships, when we fall in love, we tell our stories. The closer we draw to people, the more of our stories we are willing to risk. ‘Risk’ is always a factor. If we fall out with our closest friends, if love turns to enmity, the stories which are us may be stolen from our telling, and reshaped with malicious intent, putting at peril our cohesiveness, pressing us into despair, pushing towards the fragmentation of self we call madness. The stories which make us strong, self-confident, keep us vulnerable as well. Stories are easy to steal.
... (read more)Australian Women: Contemporary feminist thought edited by Norma Grieve and Ailsa Burns
Volatile Bodies: Towards a corporeal feminism by Elizabeth Grosz
Engendered Fictions: Analysing gender in the production and reception of texts by Anne Cranny-Francis
Here it is, nearly Christmas, and as usual, the list of Books I Have Read is running into the hundreds, and I have that end-of-year mad, fleeting illusion that also afflicts exam-fevered students … that somehow it All Adds Up.
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