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- Published 20051206
- ISBN: 9780733316722
- Extent: 252 pp
- Paperback (234 x 153mm)

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Alison Ravenscroft
Alison Ravenscroft teaches in English at La Trobe University, Bundoora, in the areas of contemporary feminist theory and 20th-century US and Australian fiction.Her short...
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