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Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 Strategies of Power and Catherine Martin's "An Australian Girl"
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Stella's illness is shown to resemble female Neurasthenia, a nervous condition identified in the 1860s and believed to arise from the pressures which social conditions place on the individual. The woman's illness, impacting on the domestic situation, then placed the woman in a position of 'power'.

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    y separately published work icon Southerly vol. 51 no. 2 June 1991 Z604135 1991 periodical issue 1991 pg. 189-206
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189-206 Strategies of Power and Catherine Martin's "An Australian Girl"small AustLit logo Southerly
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