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League of their own
'It is now more dangerous to be a woman than a soldier in modern conflicts.'– Major General Patrick Cammaert,...
The unwritten rules
Patriarchal power and control occurs silently, without fanfare, through institutions and their structure, including legal institutions and the family. It is in this conceptualisation that the recent public discussion in Australia of misogyny and the 'gender card' became distracted, focussing on a personal hatred of individual women as key rather than the daily reproduction of significant structural inequality.
The fig tree
THREE YEARS AGO, if you'd told me I'd be a mother one day, I probably would have laughed in...
The women are present
IT DID NOT take long before posters advertising performance artist Marina Abramovic's show at New York's Museum of Modern...
No ordinary ham
Selected for Best Australian Stories 2006I NEVER DID find out what Jimmy saw in that meat – Jimmy's a...
Every two seconds
SOMEBODY DIES EVERY two seconds, and then every two seconds somebody is born. It's what Mum told me when...
Tactics
Selected for Best Australian Stories 2006IN THE '80s I was in love with Robert Smith. I also hoped against...
Indelible ink
Selected for Best Australian Stories 2006SHE WAS FIFTY-NINE, rich, divorced for a year, and out alone on a Saturday...
Is your history my history?
I NEVER MET my grandfather, but we keep his skull on the top shelf of the hutch, behind two...
Soliloquy for one dead
THAT THEY WERE both named Nigel is a distant memory, flotsam fading away. For now, it's the smells of...
Lowlife
THE APARTMENT IS his again. She's gone – he's sure of it. They cooked up a storming fight over...
Flinch
Society is concerned to tame the Photograph, to temper the madness which keeps threatening to explode in the face...
