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'Good daughters hold their tongues, obey their elders and let their families determine their destiny. Rebellious daughters are just the opposite.
'In Rebellious Daughters, some of Australia’s most talented female writers share intimate and touching stories of rebellion and independence as they defy the expectations of parents and society to find their place in the world.
'Powerful, funny and poignant, these stories explore everything from getting caught in seedy nightclubs to lifelong family conflicts and marrying too young. Beautifully written, profoundly honest and always relatable, every story is a unique retelling that celebrates the rebellious daughter within us all.
'Not every woman is a mother, grandmother, aunty or sister – but all women are daughters.' (Publication summary)
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Epigraph: 'Families fling us into intimacy, into shared odours, a whole sensual archive of warm water and bitter tonics, inherited underwear, the balm of another's touch.' - Mandy Sayer
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Wonder Tales
2017
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essay
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 21 no. 1 2017;'In her contribution to Maria Katsonis and Lee Kofman’s collection, Rebellious Daughters: True Stories from Australia’s Finest Female Writers (2016), Krissy Kneen cites fairy-tale scholar Marina Warner, who notes that the original term for the fairy tale was Wundermärchen, the wonder tale. ‘To wonder’, writes Warner, ‘communicates the receptive state of marvelling as well as the active desire to know, to inquire’ (40). In the same way, Kneen observes, the (often horrific) fairy tales told to her by her grandmother, stories which did not at all adhere to the philosophy of characters who lived ‘happily ever after’, filled the young girl ‘with a powerful and dangerous curiosity’ (40). It is that desire to know, that epistemophilia, which not only drives the women and girls of the stories collected here, but those about whom they read, and whom we now, in this collection, voraciously follow, hungry for knowledge, for endings happy or otherwise.' (Introduction)
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MARIA KATSONIS & LEE KOFMAN (Eds) Rebellious Daughters : True Stories From Australia’s Finest Female Writers
2016
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review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , August 2016;
— Review of Rebellious Daughters : True Stories from Australia's Finest Female Writers 2016 anthology autobiography -
Good Girls Can Be Troublemakers Too
2016
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review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 28 August 2016; (p. 28)
— Review of Rebellious Daughters : True Stories from Australia's Finest Female Writers 2016 anthology autobiography -
Much to Savour in Feast of the Familial
2016
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review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 20-21 August 2016; (p. 31)
— Review of Rebellious Daughters : True Stories from Australia's Finest Female Writers 2016 anthology autobiography -
Lip Lit : Rebellious Daughters
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Lip Magazine 2016;
— Review of Rebellious Daughters : True Stories from Australia's Finest Female Writers 2016 anthology autobiography
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Much to Savour in Feast of the Familial
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 20-21 August 2016; (p. 31)
— Review of Rebellious Daughters : True Stories from Australia's Finest Female Writers 2016 anthology autobiography -
Good Girls Can Be Troublemakers Too
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 28 August 2016; (p. 28)
— Review of Rebellious Daughters : True Stories from Australia's Finest Female Writers 2016 anthology autobiography -
MARIA KATSONIS & LEE KOFMAN (Eds) Rebellious Daughters : True Stories From Australia’s Finest Female Writers
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , August 2016;
— Review of Rebellious Daughters : True Stories from Australia's Finest Female Writers 2016 anthology autobiography -
Review : Rebellious Daughters: True Stories from Australia’s Finest Female Writers
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , September 2016; (p. 50)
— Review of Rebellious Daughters : True Stories from Australia's Finest Female Writers 2016 anthology autobiography -
Tales of Resistance from the Family Front
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 15-16 October 2016; (p. 24)
— Review of Rebellious Daughters : True Stories from Australia's Finest Female Writers 2016 anthology autobiography -
To Women Sowing Their Wild Oats
2016
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column
— Appears in: Neos Kosmos , 27 July 2016; -
The Allure of Rebellion
2016
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column
— Appears in: Neos Kosmos , 12 September 2016; -
Wonder Tales
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 21 no. 1 2017;'In her contribution to Maria Katsonis and Lee Kofman’s collection, Rebellious Daughters: True Stories from Australia’s Finest Female Writers (2016), Krissy Kneen cites fairy-tale scholar Marina Warner, who notes that the original term for the fairy tale was Wundermärchen, the wonder tale. ‘To wonder’, writes Warner, ‘communicates the receptive state of marvelling as well as the active desire to know, to inquire’ (40). In the same way, Kneen observes, the (often horrific) fairy tales told to her by her grandmother, stories which did not at all adhere to the philosophy of characters who lived ‘happily ever after’, filled the young girl ‘with a powerful and dangerous curiosity’ (40). It is that desire to know, that epistemophilia, which not only drives the women and girls of the stories collected here, but those about whom they read, and whom we now, in this collection, voraciously follow, hungry for knowledge, for endings happy or otherwise.' (Introduction)
