Gender and Nation - Australia (Annotated Bibliography).

Reekie, G., Contesting Australia: Feminism and Histories of the Nation in Whitlock. G. & group A; Carter, D. (eds), Images of Australia: an Introductory Reader in Australian Studies, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1994.

This hold gave me understanding of the feminist challenge to farming since World War II. Reekie discusses how the female experience has been excluded from national identity operator and the imagined community of nation mainly due to women not organism included in the formation of the national identity and histories.

I ready her suggestion that nation is based on a brotherlike community which would not be except for the silent capitulate and support of women, interesting. She suggests that in the past. reputed lack of evidence of feminine office to history and the fact that history has predominantly been written by male historians, has lead to exclusion of the female experience. Reekie also suggests that the masculinity of nation and national identity can only exist when the feminine experience is omitted.

Reekie states that since the 1970s, feminist historians have found a great deal of evidence of womens contribution to Australian history. The word suggests that the feminist challenges to traditional histories and identities of nation may demand a reappraisal of traditional histories of nation and cause chaos to the imagined biovular community of nation.

This article, from a feminist perspective, gave me a different lens of the eye through which to view and consider the histories of nation and national identity.

Evans, R. & Thorpe, B., Commanding Men: Masculinities and the Convict System, Journal of Australian Studies, No. 56, 1998, pp. 17-34.

This article looks at how masculine authority of the early penal settlement manipulated both genders, through punishment, into an almost singular group. Floggings produced feminine submissive behaviour in men and removing womens hair stripped them of their femininity.

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