Anne Brewster, Sue Kossew

Rethinking the Victim

Gender and Violence in Contemporary Australian Women's Writing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Arguing that gendered violence is inflected with sexuality, class, race, ethnicity and many other factors,this book rethinks victimhood and agency from a feminist perspective and resists the spectacularization of violence against women often graphically depicted in cinema, news and pornography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780367786786
• ISBN-10: 0367786788
• Artikelnr.: 61212477

Autorenporträt

Associate Professor Anne Brewster is at the University of New South Wales. Her books include Giving This Country a Memory: Contemporary Aboriginal Voices of Australia, (2015), Literary Formations: Postcoloniality, Nationalism, Globalism (1996) and Reading Aboriginal Women's Autobiography (1995, 2015). She is series editor for Australian Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Professor Sue Kossew is Chair of English/Literary Studies at Monash University. Her research is in contemporary postcolonial and women's literatures, particularly J.M. Coetzee and contemporary Australian and South African women writers. Her books include Writing Woman, Writing Place: Australian and South African Fiction (Routledge, 2004). She is co-editing Reading Coetzee's Women.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Chapter 1: Intimate Violations: Gothic and Romance. Chapter
2: Violence Against Women and Girls: Indigenous women's activist poetry.
Chapter 3: Broken Families, Vulnerable Children. Chapter 4: War and
Political Violence. Conclusion.