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Guide to the Classics : My Brilliant Career and Its Uncompromising Message for Girls Today
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Guide to the Classics : My Brilliant Career and Its Uncompromising Message for Girls Today
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'Growing up in Australia in the 1970s, I much preferred the hijinks of Han Solo and Chewie to Princess Leia’s sexualised damsel in distress. My sister and I spent an entire summer pigging out on Choc Wedges and Barney Bananas so we could collect the men’s cricket team on specially marked sticks. Feminism seemed a world “far, far away”. Yet what Australian girls could and couldn’t do was being explored through a glut of screen adaptations of classic novels.' (Introduction)
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