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020 _a9781138092594
082 0 0 _a820.9928 BRE
100 1 _aBrewster, Anne, and Kossew, Sue
245 1 0 _aRethinking the victim :
_bgendered violence in Australian women's literature /
_cAnne Brewster, Sue Kossew.
260 _aLondon:
_bRoutledge,
_c2019.
300 _a240 p.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntimate violations: Gothic and Romance -- Violence against women and girls: Indigenous women's activist poetry -- Broken families, vulnerable children -- War and political violence.
520 _a"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"--
650 0 _aAustralian literature
650 0 _aAustralian literature
650 0 _aViolence in literature.
650 0 _aSex role in literature.
700 1 _aKossew, Sue,
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