{"product_id":"rethinking-the-victim-gender-and-violence-in-contemporary-australian-womens-writing-paperback","title":"Rethinking the Victim: Gender and Violence in Contemporary Australian Women's Writing - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnne Brewster\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSue Kossew\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 women's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy analysing Australian women's 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 women's writing alongside that of Indigenous and minoritised women. In doing so it provides insights into the interconnectedness of Australia's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAssociate Professor Anne Brewster\u003c\/strong\u003e is at the University of New South Wales. Her books include \u003ci\u003eGiving This Country a Memory: Contemporary Aboriginal Voices of Australia, \u003c\/i\u003e(2015), \u003ci\u003eLiterary Formations: Postcoloniality, Nationalism, Globalism \u003c\/i\u003e(1996) and\u003ci\u003e Reading Aboriginal Women's Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e (1995, 2015). She is series editor for \u003ci\u003eAustralian Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor Sue Kossew is Chair of English\/Literary Studies at Monash University. Her research is in contemporary postcolonial and women's literatures, particularly J.M. Coetzee and contemporary Australian and South African women writers. Her books include\u003ci\u003e Writing Woman, Writing Place: Australian and South African Fiction \u003c\/i\u003e(Routledge, 2004). She is co-editing \u003ci\u003eReading Coetzee's Women\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.53 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 31, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51786691281184,"sku":"9780367786786","price":100.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/72fc559e225b5b484562ec6023db2e27.webp?v=1780637848","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/rethinking-the-victim-gender-and-violence-in-contemporary-australian-womens-writing-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}