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Contents indexed selectively.
Contents
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Man's Man : Representations of Australian Post-war Masculinity in Man Magazine,
single work
criticism
(p. 151-169)
'This article examines the representation of masculinity in Man, a men’s magazine, in post-war Australia. While the notion of the “sleepy 1950s” has implied a period of social conservatism and gender stability, the representation of (and commentary on) men’s social, cultural and familial worlds in Man tells a rather different story. In a period in which Menzies’s breadwinner masculinity idealised work and familial life as the source of men’s satisfaction (and civilised society more broadly), Man positioned its imagined reader as desperately unhappy and frustrated by the confines of suburban life and marriage. There were limits, however, to the generosity of this critique. While trying to provide Australian men with an escape from the rigid confines of hegemonic masculinity, Man remained attached to a near-misogynist attitude to women. The distress and anguish of men, in this case, became another way to restrict the lives and choices of women.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Note: Published online 16 July 2015. -
[Review] Shirley Hazzard : Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist,
single work
review
— Review of Shirley Hazzard : Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist 2012 multi chapter work criticism ; (p. 272-274) -
[Review] Domestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand,
single work
review
— Review of Domestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand 2014 multi chapter work criticism ; (p. 274-275) -
[Review] The Bilingual Cockatoo : Writing Italian Australian Lives,
single work
review
— Review of The Bilingual Cockatoo : Writing Italian Australian Lives 2014 multi chapter work criticism ; (p. 284-285)
