Rethinking the Victim: Gender and Violence in Contemporary Australian Women's Writing

by Anne Brewster and Sue Kossew

Book Overview

This book is the first to examine gender and violence in Australian literature. It argues that literary texts by Australian women writers offer unique ways of understanding the social problem of gendered violence, bringing this often private and suppressed issue into the public sphere. It draws on the international field of violence studies to investigate how Australian women writers challenge the victim paradigm and figure women's agencies. In...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367786788
• ISBN13: 9780367786786
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"