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Contains 50 works by 37 Australian women writers. The themes include exploration of identity, the politics of feminism and the self-consciousness of writing. Many women have written of journeys: journeys of discovery, imaginary travels, forced movements, escapes. The 'statelessness' of women, whether oppressive or liberating is a recurrent motif throughout this collection. -- from a foreword titled: Second Degree of Tampering : Towards a Politics of Identity
Notes
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Contents indexed selectively.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Melbourne,
Victoria,:Sybylla Press
, 1992 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Beautiful Lotus Forest, single work prose (p. 1-2)
- Still Water Run Deep, single work prose (p. 3-6)
- I Look at a Stari"I look at a star", single work poetry (p. 12-13)
- Swooping Firebird, single work autobiography (p. 14-20)
- Stationmaster, single work prose (p. 30)
- What a Waste, single work short story (p. 47-50)
- ...Outside it Snows, single work short story (p. 70)
- Rape Scenei"it was the same act/old re-run", single work poetry (p. 86-87)
- Thirteeni"I was practising being a saint.", single work poetry (p. 90)
- A Ghost in the Kitchen, single work short story (p. 95)
- In the City, single work short story (p. 98-102)
- For the Record, single work drama (p. 116-119)
- Fashion Statementi"Raybocks and reebans", single work poetry (p. 124)
- The Houses of Pleasure, extract short story historical fiction (p. 134-139)
- Eins, Zwei, Dreii"When your strange stiff shoes felt the Sydney coast", single work poetry (p. 140-142)
- Terminal, single work prose (p. 156-165)
- I, Pronouni"I, the ninth letter and third vowel", single work poetry (p. 166-167)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Introduction : From There to Here and Then to Now : A Very Rough Guide
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , 17 April no. 17 2013; 'The project represented by this collection of work was conceived in 2009, by Moya Costello who pushed the other editors to act on our previous discussions, as a 'landmark anthology' of Australian women's experimental writing in the vein of the maps made by collections of the 1970s and 1980s: Mother, I'm rooted (edited by Kate Jennings, 1975) which was the first collection of poetry by Australian women, and F(r)ictions (edited by Anna Gibbs and Alison Tilson, 1982)1 . To our dismay, the current state of print publishing in Australia made such an enterprise impossible, as our proposal was rejected everywhere we sent it, mostly it seems because such collections have gone out of favour, at least with publishers. In the face of these refusals, we decided to opt for a journal publication, and this journal, TEXT, the journal of the Association of Australasian Writing Programs, was an obvious choice, since it has a wide - and growing - readership both in (and outside) universities, and, when it comes to experimental writing, teachers are always seeking examples for use in class. Publishing in a journal, however, meant we had to cull all the work which had been previously published, and this means that many writers whose work would otherwise have been part of this collection are not represented here, including some of the major figures in Australian experimental writing (Alexis Wright and Marion May Campbell, to name just two). This collection also has a strong bias towards work from Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne, mostly by virtue of the locations and histories of its editors, but also because we had almost no response to our call from elsewhere in Australia. Nor is there the avowedly Aboriginal work we had hoped for: again, our own connections were perhaps one limitation, but it is also likely that these writers have other priorities than experimentation (sovereignty and justice, for example) or anthology projects such as this one. The work included here is not blind refereed, but every piece was read and discussed by all four editors, and editorial work of one sort or another was performed on most of the contributions.' (Author's introduction)
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By Collective Consensus
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 132 1993; (p. 85-86)
— Review of Second Degree Tampering : Writing by Women 1992 anthology poetry short story prose drama -
Body Tampering
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Antithesis , vol. 6 no. 2 1993; (p. 180-185)
— Review of Second Degree Tampering : Writing by Women 1992 anthology poetry short story prose drama ; Body Lines : A Women's Anthology 1991 anthology poetry short story prose drama criticism ; Moments of Desire : Sex and Sensuality by Australian Feminist Writers 1989 anthology poetry short story -
First-Degree Troublemaking
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , March vol. 5 no. 1 1993; (p. 8-9)
— Review of Second Degree Tampering : Writing by Women 1992 anthology poetry short story prose drama -
Every One of Those Feelings : Sybylla's New Anthology
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Arena Magazine , October-November no. 1 1992; (p. 52-54)
— Review of Second Degree Tampering : Writing by Women 1992 anthology poetry short story prose drama
-
Every One of Those Feelings : Sybylla's New Anthology
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Arena Magazine , October-November no. 1 1992; (p. 52-54)
— Review of Second Degree Tampering : Writing by Women 1992 anthology poetry short story prose drama -
Time Will Tell with These New Modes of Writing
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January no. 147 1992-1993; (p. 36)
— Review of Second Degree Tampering : Writing by Women 1992 anthology poetry short story prose drama -
First-Degree Troublemaking
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , March vol. 5 no. 1 1993; (p. 8-9)
— Review of Second Degree Tampering : Writing by Women 1992 anthology poetry short story prose drama -
Body Tampering
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Antithesis , vol. 6 no. 2 1993; (p. 180-185)
— Review of Second Degree Tampering : Writing by Women 1992 anthology poetry short story prose drama ; Body Lines : A Women's Anthology 1991 anthology poetry short story prose drama criticism ; Moments of Desire : Sex and Sensuality by Australian Feminist Writers 1989 anthology poetry short story -
By Collective Consensus
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 132 1993; (p. 85-86)
— Review of Second Degree Tampering : Writing by Women 1992 anthology poetry short story prose drama -
Introduction : From There to Here and Then to Now : A Very Rough Guide
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , 17 April no. 17 2013; 'The project represented by this collection of work was conceived in 2009, by Moya Costello who pushed the other editors to act on our previous discussions, as a 'landmark anthology' of Australian women's experimental writing in the vein of the maps made by collections of the 1970s and 1980s: Mother, I'm rooted (edited by Kate Jennings, 1975) which was the first collection of poetry by Australian women, and F(r)ictions (edited by Anna Gibbs and Alison Tilson, 1982)1 . To our dismay, the current state of print publishing in Australia made such an enterprise impossible, as our proposal was rejected everywhere we sent it, mostly it seems because such collections have gone out of favour, at least with publishers. In the face of these refusals, we decided to opt for a journal publication, and this journal, TEXT, the journal of the Association of Australasian Writing Programs, was an obvious choice, since it has a wide - and growing - readership both in (and outside) universities, and, when it comes to experimental writing, teachers are always seeking examples for use in class. Publishing in a journal, however, meant we had to cull all the work which had been previously published, and this means that many writers whose work would otherwise have been part of this collection are not represented here, including some of the major figures in Australian experimental writing (Alexis Wright and Marion May Campbell, to name just two). This collection also has a strong bias towards work from Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne, mostly by virtue of the locations and histories of its editors, but also because we had almost no response to our call from elsewhere in Australia. Nor is there the avowedly Aboriginal work we had hoped for: again, our own connections were perhaps one limitation, but it is also likely that these writers have other priorities than experimentation (sovereignty and justice, for example) or anthology projects such as this one. The work included here is not blind refereed, but every piece was read and discussed by all four editors, and editorial work of one sort or another was performed on most of the contributions.' (Author's introduction)
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