'Those Boys Told Me Everything' : The Politics of the Secretary of Christina Stead's 1930s Fiction

'Those Boys Told Me Everything' : The Politics of the Secretary of Christina Stead's 1930s Fiction single work criticism

Author:agent Brigid Rooney

Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 'Those Boys Told Me Everything' : The Politics of the Secretary of Christina Stead's 1930s Fiction

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Rooney examines how 'Stead's fiction intricately negotiates her encounters with these [the banking and Popular Front politics worlds] divergent "phallocracies" through the multivalent and liminal figure of the secretary.' Rooney notes that while 'Stead's narrative use of the male political secretary safeguards her identity as a socially accepatable women' it also provides 'a context for discerning the nature of her contribution to 1930s debates about capitalism, communism and revolution.'