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Reading Australia
This work has Reading Australia teaching resources.
Unit Suitable For
AC: Year 11 (English Unit 2)
Themes
Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia, change, critical and creative thinking capability, Ethical understanding capability, freedom, gender, independence, Information and communication technology capability, intercultural understanding capability, literacy capability, Power, religion, repression, struggle
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[Essay] : Nine Parts of Desire 2
2013
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essay
— Appears in: Reading Australia 2013-;'Like the biblical story of Christ’s birth, Geraldine Brooks’ Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women begins with a woman refused a room at an inn. In Brooks’ tale, the ‘inn’ is a modern hotel in the Saudi Arabian city of Dhahran in the early 1990s, where the Australian journalist is on assignment for the Wall Street Journal. She is refused a room not because she is pregnant – she isn’t – nor because the hotel is fully booked; rather, it is contrary to the laws of the desert kingdom for a woman to travel without her husband. Only a prostitute would do so, as the male receptionist implies. When the affronted traveller tries to bed down on a sofa behind a plant in the lobby, the police are called.' (Introduction)
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[Essay] : Nine Parts of Desire
[Essay] : Nine Parts of Desire 1;
[Essay] : 9 Parts of Desire 1;
[Essay] : 9 Parts of Desire One;
[Essay] : Nine Parts of Desire One
2013
single work
essay
— Appears in: Reading Australia 2013-;‘The daily life of Muslim women.’ ‘An understanding of the women behind the veils.’ ‘A compelling insight into women in the Muslim world.’ This is what the blurb of Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women promises the reader.' (Introduction)
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Geraldine Brooks
2012
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biography
— Appears in: Australian Author , March vol. 44 no. 1 2012; (p. 22-25) 'Geraldine Brooks forged a distinguished career as a foreign correspondent before switching to write historical fiction. her novels have been internationally acclaimed and earned her a Pulitzer Prize.' (p. 22)
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Reading & Viewing : Persuasive Texts for Years 10-12
2011
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review
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 46 no. 1 2011; (p. 78-79)
— Review of Nine Parts of Desire : The Hidden World of Islamic Women 1994 single work non-fiction ; Hamlet 2010 single work graphic novel -
A Sense of Discarded Gifts
2008
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criticism
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , February vol. 3 no. 1 2008; (p. 3-5)
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Reading & Viewing : Persuasive Texts for Years 10-12
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 46 no. 1 2011; (p. 78-79)
— Review of Nine Parts of Desire : The Hidden World of Islamic Women 1994 single work non-fiction ; Hamlet 2010 single work graphic novel -
The War on Terror, Feminist Orientalism and Orientalist Feminism : Case Studies of Two North American Bestsellers
2005
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criticism
— Appears in: Critique , Summer vol. 14 no. 2 2005; (p. 221-235) -
Arab-Australian Women's Activism
2002
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criticism
— Appears in: Arab-Australians Today : Citizenship and Belonging 2002; (p. 161-172) Paula Abood discusses how Arab-Australian women represent themselves, in both political and cultural activism. -
A Sense of Discarded Gifts
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , February vol. 3 no. 1 2008; (p. 3-5) -
Geraldine Brooks
2012
single work
biography
— Appears in: Australian Author , March vol. 44 no. 1 2012; (p. 22-25) 'Geraldine Brooks forged a distinguished career as a foreign correspondent before switching to write historical fiction. her novels have been internationally acclaimed and earned her a Pulitzer Prize.' (p. 22)
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[Essay] : Nine Parts of Desire
[Essay] : Nine Parts of Desire 1;
[Essay] : 9 Parts of Desire 1;
[Essay] : 9 Parts of Desire One;
[Essay] : Nine Parts of Desire One
2013
single work
essay
— Appears in: Reading Australia 2013-;‘The daily life of Muslim women.’ ‘An understanding of the women behind the veils.’ ‘A compelling insight into women in the Muslim world.’ This is what the blurb of Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women promises the reader.' (Introduction)