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Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 From Diggers to Drag Queens : Configurations of Australian National Identity
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Pluto Press ; King Street Press ,
      2001 .
      Extent: xxiv, 268p.p.
      Description: illus., ports.
      Note/s:
      • Bibliography: p. 243-258.
      • Includes index.
      ISBN: 1864031182 (Pluto), 0951605542

Works about this Work

White Closets, Jangling Nerves and the Biopolitics of the Public Secret Fiona Probyn , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , June vol. 26 no. 2 2011; (p. 57-75)
'This essay attempts to outline the relationship between the 'raw nerves' that Denis Byrne describes in the epigraph above, and the cultivation of 'indifference' that Stanner identifies as being characteristic of 'European life' in Australia. Here I situate indifference as numbing the 'jangling' of 'raw nerves' and as cultivated, disseminated and feeding specific forms of public secrecy. How did the white men who enforces segregation by day and pursued Aboriginal women by night manage their 'jangling nerves, if indeed they did jangle? How did they manage to be seen and known and have their secrets kept for them, as much as by them. How did this contradiction of segregation and sexual intimacy, if indeed it is a contradiction, work, My hope is that if we can understand how the white men (and those around them), regulated these jangling nerves, then we might be able to understand the relationship between indifference, public secrecy and the biopolitical forms that Australian whiteness took in the twentieth century, and specifically in the period of assimilation, extending from the 1930s to, roughly, the end of the 1960s.' (Author's introduction p. 57)
Untitled Katherine Ferguson , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Atenea , December vol. 23 no. 2 2003; (p. 209)

— Review of From Diggers to Drag Queens : Configurations of Australian National Identity Fiona Jean Nicoll , 2001 single work criticism
Fantasy Families and Australian Goodness Robert Aldrich , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , March no. 25 2002;

— Review of From Diggers to Drag Queens : Configurations of Australian National Identity Fiona Jean Nicoll , 2001 single work criticism ; The Gauche Intruder : Freud, Lacan and the White Australian Fantasy Jennifer Rutherford , 2000 single work criticism
Untitled Bruce Johnson , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , no. 3 2001; Journal of Australian Studies , no. 70 2001; (p. 142-144)

— Review of From Diggers to Drag Queens : Configurations of Australian National Identity Fiona Jean Nicoll , 2001 single work criticism
Untitled Katherine Ferguson , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Atenea , December vol. 23 no. 2 2003; (p. 209)

— Review of From Diggers to Drag Queens : Configurations of Australian National Identity Fiona Jean Nicoll , 2001 single work criticism
Untitled Bruce Johnson , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , no. 3 2001; Journal of Australian Studies , no. 70 2001; (p. 142-144)

— Review of From Diggers to Drag Queens : Configurations of Australian National Identity Fiona Jean Nicoll , 2001 single work criticism
Fantasy Families and Australian Goodness Robert Aldrich , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , March no. 25 2002;

— Review of From Diggers to Drag Queens : Configurations of Australian National Identity Fiona Jean Nicoll , 2001 single work criticism ; The Gauche Intruder : Freud, Lacan and the White Australian Fantasy Jennifer Rutherford , 2000 single work criticism
White Closets, Jangling Nerves and the Biopolitics of the Public Secret Fiona Probyn , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , June vol. 26 no. 2 2011; (p. 57-75)
'This essay attempts to outline the relationship between the 'raw nerves' that Denis Byrne describes in the epigraph above, and the cultivation of 'indifference' that Stanner identifies as being characteristic of 'European life' in Australia. Here I situate indifference as numbing the 'jangling' of 'raw nerves' and as cultivated, disseminated and feeding specific forms of public secrecy. How did the white men who enforces segregation by day and pursued Aboriginal women by night manage their 'jangling nerves, if indeed they did jangle? How did they manage to be seen and known and have their secrets kept for them, as much as by them. How did this contradiction of segregation and sexual intimacy, if indeed it is a contradiction, work, My hope is that if we can understand how the white men (and those around them), regulated these jangling nerves, then we might be able to understand the relationship between indifference, public secrecy and the biopolitical forms that Australian whiteness took in the twentieth century, and specifically in the period of assimilation, extending from the 1930s to, roughly, the end of the 1960s.' (Author's introduction p. 57)
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