Debutante Nation: Feminism Contests The 1890s

For many, the last ten years of a century become a milestone and fulcrum, and our Bicentennial provoked critical examination of our national culture and identity. However, assertions of national identity, unity, and community are constructed through exclusions and repression, not simple incorporation as was attempted. Critical questions then led to renewed interrogation of the twin births of Australian political nationalism and a distinctively Australian national culture in the 1890s, a decade that those histories have deemed legendary. pp. 267 illusts First Edition Prev ownership on prelim #1218