Women and the Bush: Forces of Desire in Australian Cultural Tradition by Kay Schaffer

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent.

Kay Schaffer applies the insight of feminist scholarship and literary analysis to examine the national character. She looks at how the concept of the typical Australian man and the woman who stands in relation to him has evolved across a range of cultural forms, including historical and literary texts, film and media.

She concentrates in particular on the writings of Henry Lawson and Barbara Baynton. The circulation of ideas about these writers, their contribution to a national mythology, and the different ways their importance has been represented to modern readers, is explored and dsicussed. (back cover)