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Rethinking the victim : gendered violence in Australian women's literature / Anne Brewster, Sue Kossew.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London: Routledge, 2019.Description: 240 pISBN:
  • 9781138092594
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9928 BRE
Contents:
Intimate violations: Gothic and Romance -- Violence against women and girls: Indigenous women's activist poetry -- Broken families, vulnerable children -- War and political violence.
Summary: "Rethinking the Victim: Gendered Violence in Australian Literature is the first comprehensive investigation of the multiple and interrelated forms of violence which play out across intimate, familial, colonial and militarised zones in Australian women's literature. Arguing that gendered violence is inflected with sexuality, class, race, ethnicity and many other factors, the book rethinks victimhood and agency from a feminist perspective and resists the spectacularization of violence against women that is often graphically depicted in cinema, news media and pornography"--
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Book Book Centre for Australian Studies General Stacks Centre for Australian Studies 820.9928 BRE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available CAS62

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intimate violations: Gothic and Romance -- Violence against women and girls: Indigenous women's activist poetry -- Broken families, vulnerable children -- War and political violence.

"Rethinking the Victim: Gendered Violence in Australian Literature is the first comprehensive investigation of the multiple and interrelated forms of violence which play out across intimate, familial, colonial and militarised zones in Australian women's literature. Arguing that gendered violence is inflected with sexuality, class, race, ethnicity and many other factors, the book rethinks victimhood and agency from a feminist perspective and resists the spectacularization of violence against women that is often graphically depicted in cinema, news media and pornography"--

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