Rethinking the Victim: Gender and Violence in Contemporary Australian Women's Wr

Description: Rethinking the Victim by Anne Brewster, Sue Kossew Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description Arguing that gendered violence is inflected with sexuality, class, race, ethnicity and many other factors,this book rethinks victimhood and agency from a feminist perspective and resists the spectacularization of violence against women often graphically depicted in cinema, news and pornography. Publisher Description This book is the first to examine gender and violence in Australian literature. It argues that literary texts by Australian women writers offer unique ways of understanding the social problem of gendered violence, bringing this often private and suppressed issue into the public sphere. It draws on the international field of violence studies to investigate how Australian women writers challenge the victim paradigm and figure womens agencies. In doing so, it provides a theoretical context for the increasing number of contemporary literary works by Australian women writers that directly address gendered violence, an issue that has taken on urgent social and political currency.By analysing Australian womens literary representations of gendered violence, this book rethinks victimhood and agency, particularly from a feminist perspective. One of its major innovations is that it examines mainstream Australian womens writing alongside that of Indigenous and minoritised women. In doing so it provides insights into the interconnectedness of Australias diverse settler, Indigenous and diasporic histories in chapters that examine intimate partner violence, violence against Indigenous women and girls, family violence and violence against children, and the war and political violence. Author Biography Associate Professor Anne Brewster is at the University of New South Wales. Her books include Giving This Country a Memory: Contemporary Aboriginal Voices of Australia, (2015), Literary Formations: Postcoloniality, Nationalism, Globalism (1996) and Reading Aboriginal Womens Autobiography (1995, 2015). She is series editor for Australian Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.Professor Sue Kossew is Chair of English/Literary Studies at Monash University. Her research is in contemporary postcolonial and womens literatures, particularly J.M. Coetzee and contemporary Australian and South African women writers. Her books include Writing Woman, Writing Place: Australian and South African Fiction (Routledge, 2004). She is co-editing Reading Coetzees Women. Details ISBN 0367786788 ISBN-13 9780367786786 Title Rethinking the Victim Author Anne Brewster, Sue Kossew Format Paperback Year 2021 Pages 240 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd GE_Item_ID:135446618; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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