CONTENTS

Editorial
By Carole Ferrier.

Discovering Whiteness
By Ros Kidd.

Kate Jennings. Interview with Julie McCrossin

The One Who Looked Like Beethoven
By Alison Lambert.

Cartoon: Debbie Harman Qadri. Time's Up Mary.

Funny for Some, Terrifying for Others: The Ready-Made WorldView
Cassandra Pybus, Raven Road.
Reviewed by Janine Little.

Evoking/Invoking India
Bulbul Sharma, The Anger of Aubergines. Suniti Namjoshi, Goja: an Autobiographical Myth.
Reviewed by Alison Bartlett.

Diving into the Heart of Empire
Angela Woollacott, To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and Modernity.
Reviewed by Barbara Garlick.

Cartoon: Debbie Harman Qadri. Writer's Block

Ambiguity Stripped Bare
Helen McDonald, Erotic Ambiguities: The Female Nude in Art.
Reviewed by Morgan Thomas.

Staying at Home with the Weekly.
Susan Sheridan (with Barbara Baird, Kate Borrett and Lyndall Ryan), Who Was That Woman? The Australian Women's Weekly in the Postwar Years.
Reviewed by Maryanne Dever.

In the Direction of a Signpost
Dorothy Hewett, Nowhere.
Reviewed by Jasna Novakovic.

Cartoon: Debbie Harman Qadri. Labour Day

Long Waiting in the Wings
Susan Pfisterer and Carolyn Pickett, Playing with Ideas: Australian Women Playwrights from the Suffragettes to the Sixties.
Reviewed by Kerry Kilner.

Through an (American) Afghani Girl's Eyes
Deborah Ellis, Parvana.
Reviewed by Jo Lampert.

The Fragmented Story of a Journey to Wholeness
Irini Savvides, Willow Tree and Olive.
Reviewed by Leanne Bensley.

The Hallmark of the Ordinary
Anita Diamant, Good Harbour.
Reviewed by Carolyn Hughes.

Cartoon: Debbie Harman Qadri. Mother's Methods for Writing Poetry

What Do You Mean By Your Country?
Sylvia Lawson, How Simone de Beauvoir Died in Australia: Stories and Essays.
Reviewed by Shirley Tucker.

Eating Restraint in the Face of Excess
Elspeth Probyn, Carnal Appetites: FoodSexIdentities.
Reviewed by Angela Hirst.

The Difficulties of Celebrity
Tara Brabazon, Ladies Who Lunge: Celebrating Difficult Women.
Reviewed by Kelly McWilliam.

Cartoon: Debbie Harman Qadri. Rapunzel

Unlucky Alliances? Lesbian-Feminism and Queer Theory
Linda Garber, Identity Poetics: Race, Class, and the Lesbian-Feminist Roots of Queer Theory.
Reviewed by Alexandra Winter.

Lest We Remember
Carolyn Polizzotto, A Trick of the Light.
Reviewed by Tania Oost.

An Eye on the Public Record
Dawn Fraser, Dawn: One Hell of a Life.
Reviewed by Margaret Henderson.

Cartoon: Debbie Harman Qadri. The Baby-Sitter's Here

Colonial or Post-colonial Religion? Reading Aboriginal Christianity
Heather McDonald, Blood, Bones and Spirit: Aboriginal Christianity in an East Kimberley Town.
Reviewed by Anne Elvey.

Adjusting One's Head to Advanced Research
Diana Leonard, A Woman's Guide to Doctoral Studies.
Reviewed by Myfanwy McDonald.