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Chapter 3

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.” Our Readers:  Asmi Wood Asmi Wood is a professor at the ANU law school. Isobel Kou Isobel Kuo is a third year student at The Australian National University studying Law and PPE. Kate Mitchell…

Introduction

Virginia Woolf wrote A Room of One's Own in 1929 after she presented lectures on 'Women and Fiction' at the two newly established women's Colleges at Cambridge University the year prior.  She dines at the resplendent men's colleges, contrasting them sharply with the poverty of the women’s coll…

Chapter 6

“Perhaps a mind that is purely masculine cannot create, any more than a mind that is purely feminine.” Our Readers:  Ben Jefferson Ben is studying Economics and Philosophy at the ANU and hopes to work in sustainable development in the future. He looks up to his many women role models and frien…

Chapter 5

“I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends... almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men.” Our Readers: Jilda Andrews Jilda Andrews is a Yuwaalaraay cultural practitioner and museum ethnographer, currently a research fe…
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