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'Women’s Liberation in Australia and elsewhere created feminist readers and writers. Consciousness-raising and reading and writing were intimately linked. Within the women’s movement, journals, magazines and newspapers were launched, small presses inaugurated and writing and reading groups formed. Subscription lists charted the explosion in new titles by, for and about women, and feminist bookshops stocked them. Women’s writers’ festivals, poetry readings and book launches were opportunities to find and promote new work, and to meet other feminists. Some women writers from the past were rediscovered and many contemporary female writers were championed. One of the most successful writers to emerge on the Australian literary scene in the 1970s – Helen Garner, whose debut novel Monkey Grip (1977) won the National Book Council’s Book of the Year award in 1978 – directly linked her ascendency to feminism. A specifically feminist literary criticism began to develop. More generally, feminism also helped to expand the market for women’s writing, so much so that by the 1980s major publishers were developing lists of women’s fiction and/ or subsuming feminist presses into their operations.' (Author's introduction)
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‘Women’s Writing’ and ‘Feminism’ : A History of Intimacy and Estrangement
Outskirts : Feminisms Along the Edge
Subjects:
- Monkey Grip 1977 single work novel
- Refractory Girl 1972 periodical (24 issues)
- Eight Voices of the Eighties : Stories, Journalism and Criticism by Australian Women Writers 1989 anthology criticism extract short story autobiography correspondence prose review interview
- Mother I'm Rooted : An Anthology of Australian Women Poets 1975 anthology poetry
- Hecate 1975 periodical (78 issues)
- Lillian's Story 1986 single work autobiography
- The Fortunes of Richard Mahony 1917 single work novel
- All That False Instruction : A Novel of Lesbian Love 1975 single work novel
- The Children's Bach 1984 single work novella
- Coming Out from Under : Contemporary Australian Woman Writers 1988 selected work criticism
- Honour, and, Other People's Children : Two Stories 1980 selected work novella
- Scarlet Woman 1975-1992 periodical
- Damned Whores and God's Police : The Colonization of Women in Australia 1975 single work non-fiction
- The New Diversity : Australian Fiction : 1970-88 1989 selected work criticism
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