Along the Faultlines: Sex, Race and Nation in Australian Women's Writing 1880S-1930s

Abstract

CONTENTS 1 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': 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\paraII 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, 1908-1931paraIII RACE AND NATION IN WOMEN'S WRITING 9 'Wives and mothers like ourselves, poor remnants of dying race': Aborigines and colonial women's writing 10 Mary Gilmore's and Katharine Susanna Prichard's representations of Aborigines 11 'My dear fellow Australian': women addressing the nation\paraConclusion: Are we postcolonial yet? Selected bibliography\paraIndex

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