Review(s) of: As good as a yarn with you: Letters between Miles Franklin, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Jean Devaniiy, Marjorie Barnard, Flora Eldershaw and Eleanor Dark, by Carole Ferrier, UK, Cambridge University Press; Bibliography of Australian women's literature 1795-1990, by Debra Adelaide, Melbourne, Thorpe.
Why has Australia failed in recent years to produce an equivalent of David Suzuki, Stephen Hawking, Susan Faludi, Naomi Wolf, even Camille Paglia? Once we could boast of the success of works like The Female Eunuch or The Lucky Country, so why does the publication and circulation of ideas in this country now seem to lag behind other cultures? The local and overseas acceptance of people like Carole Pateman, Humphrey McQueen, Meaghan Morris, Elizabeth Grosz…
