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

by Susan Sheridan

A study which describes the relations between women's fiction and poetry and feminist theories of cultural change in Australia. It concentrates on the historical period which saw the entry of women into citizenship, the federation of the colonies, urbanization and the beginnings of industrialization, the transition to social democracy and the Great War. The author's main concern is with women as agents of cultural change, as writing subjects. In relation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1863738673
• ISBN13: 9781863738675
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin Australia
• Length: 188 Pages