AustLit
Latest Issues
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
-
Single Motherhood as a Site for Feminist Reimagination in Helen Garner’s Monkey Grip and 'Other People’s Children'
2021
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 21 no. 2 2021;'By investigating the worlds of single mother protagonists in Helen Garner’s Monkey Grip (1977) and Other People’s Children (from Honour and Other People’s Children, 1980) this essay reflects on how Australian single mothers and their lived experiences were fictionally depicted in the decade the Supporting Mothers’ Benefit was introduced by the Whitlam Labor Government (1973).1 Much has been written about Garner’s variously-constructed collective households and the young, inner-city types who inhabited them. This essay focusses on how Garner’s single mothers negotiate the private and the political while negotiating maternal and erotic desire in the aftermath of the gains made by second-wave feminism. Contemporarily, despite these gains and the rise in and acceptability of SMC (single mothers by choice), ‘the family’ as an ideological construct, together with the predominance of phallogocentric logic continues to inhibit single mothers’ rights, equality and agency. This is one of the great contradictions of single motherhood: that while patriarchy enforces gendered and repressive values upon single mothers and their opportunities for transcendence, as a liminal, ‘in-between’ space, single motherhood presents a site for resistance and re-imagination, as well as an escape from domestic violence. I contend that in these early works Garner teases out this contradiction of constraint and freedom, similarly to how she famously examines the fault lines that exist in the ‘gap between theory and practice’ (OPC 53).' (Publication abstract)
-
Habe Dank!
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Well in the Shadow : A Writer's Journey through Australian Literature 2010; (p. 30-43) A survey of Helen Garner's 'first phase'. -
You Don't Think This is a Bit Too Helen Garner, Do You?
1997
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Age , 7 March 1997; (p. C3) -
Australian Anti-Semitism
1995
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: Quadrant , December vol. 39 no. 12 1995; (p. 2-3) -
Borderline Bodies: Women and Households in Helen Garner's `Other People's Children' and `Cosmo Cosmolino'
1995
single work
criticism
— Appears in: New Literatures Review , Winter no. 30 1995; (p. 69-82)
-
A Year of Varietals
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , July no. 84 1981; (p. 26-30)
— Review of Monkeys in the Dark 1980 single work novel ; The Frangipani Gardens 1980 single work novel ; Other People's Children 1980 single work novella ; Honour 1980 single work novella ; Alone : A Novel 1980 single work novel ; The Impersonators 1980 single work novel ; War Crimes : Short Stories 1979 selected work short story ; Faces You Can't Find Again : short stories 1980 selected work short story ; Honour, and, Other People's Children : Two Stories 1980 selected work novella ; Cherry Bloom 1980 single work novel -
Conventions of Presence
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 40 no. 1 1981; (p. 106-113)
— Review of Homesickness 1980 single work novel ; Honour, and, Other People's Children : Two Stories 1980 selected work novella ; Honour 1980 single work novella ; Other People's Children 1980 single work novella ; The Transit of Venus 1980 single work novel ; Who Shot George Kirkland? : A Novel About the Nature of Truth 1981 single work novel -
[Review] Honour and Other People's Children
1980
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 27 1980; (p. 9)
— Review of Honour, and, Other People's Children : Two Stories 1980 selected work novella ; Other People's Children 1980 single work novella ; Honour 1980 single work novella -
Author Opens a Locked-In World
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 13 January vol. 101 no. 5245 1981; (p. 56)
— Review of Honour, and, Other People's Children : Two Stories 1980 selected work novella ; Other People's Children 1980 single work novella ; Honour 1980 single work novella -
Brisbane Blokes and Melbourne Ms.
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: Quadrant , June vol. 25 no. 6 1981; (p. 71-74)
— Review of Honour, and, Other People's Children : Two Stories 1980 selected work novella ; Other People's Children 1980 single work novella ; Honour 1980 single work novella ; The First UQP Story Book 1981 anthology short story ; Alone : A Novel 1980 single work novel ; Faces You Can't Find Again : short stories 1980 selected work short story ; The Possession of Amber 1980 selected work short story -
Habe Dank!
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Well in the Shadow : A Writer's Journey through Australian Literature 2010; (p. 30-43) A survey of Helen Garner's 'first phase'. -
Australian Woman Novelists of the 1970s: A Survey
1985
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Gender, Politics and Fiction : Twentieth Century Australian Women's Novels 1985; (p. 200-221) -
Borderline Bodies: Women and Households in Helen Garner's `Other People's Children' and `Cosmo Cosmolino'
1995
single work
criticism
— Appears in: New Literatures Review , Winter no. 30 1995; (p. 69-82) -
Australian Anti-Semitism
1995
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: Quadrant , December vol. 39 no. 12 1995; (p. 2-3) -
You Don't Think This is a Bit Too Helen Garner, Do You?
1997
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Age , 7 March 1997; (p. C3)