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1 Prejudice, Poor Pay and the ‘Urinary Leash’ : Naming and Claiming Australia’s Forgotten Women Scientists Alice Gorman , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 9 February 2023;
— Review of Taking to the Field : A History of Australian Women in Science Jane Carey , 2023 multi chapter work biography criticism

'Jane Carey’s new book Taking to the Field explores a paradox: women have been excluded from Australian science for many social and political reasons, but were also present and active within it from its earliest days. It’s a story of extraordinary achievements as well as struggles to gain recognition and fair treatment.'
1 Moonwalking : When Other Worlds Belong to Women Alice Gorman , 2021 single work prose
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 74 2021; (p. 152-162)
1 [Review] Honeysuckle Creek. The Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish, and Neil Armstrong’s First Step Alice Gorman , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , November vol. 50 no. 4 2019; (p. 548-549)
— Review of Honeysuckle Creek : The Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish and Neil Armstrong's First Step Andrew Tink , 2018 single work biography

'Tom Reid was the Director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Honeysuckle Creek tracking station near Canberra during a momentous time in history: when humans first set foot on another celestial body, in the Apollo 11 crewed mission to the Moon. The fiftieth anniversary of this event was celebrated worldwide in July 2019, and Andrew Tink's biography was clearly timed to meet this market. It is also a welcome addition to the very small number of books covering Australian space history, of which the most prominent are Peter Morton's meticulous history of Woomera, Fire Across the Desert (1989) and Kerrie Dougherty's Australia in Space (2017). With the establishment of the Australian Space Agency in 2018, there is a renewed interest in Australia's largely overlooked role in global space exploration.' (Introduction)
1 Jan Owen, The Offhand Angel: New and Selected Poems and Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs Du Mal Alice Gorman , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 9 no. 2 2017; 'As an undergraduate in the 1980s, I took French translation classes with the famous Professor Colin Duckworth at Melbourne University. I was less impressed then than I am now at his story of sleeping in Voltaire’s own bed (sans Voltaire, needless to say); and we all did grow rather tired of hearing about Samuel Beckett, on whom he was a world authority. I had left university by the time he started acting in Neighbours; probably that would have impressed me most of all. However, his approach to language, as a writer, critic and translator, has stayed with me. He was superb at demonstrating the balance between accuracy and tone in the choice of words; how sometimes a less literal translation could more effectively capture meaning and mood. Nowhere is striking this balance more critical than in poetry.' (Introduction)
1 Trace Fossils : The Silence of Ediacara, the Shadow of Uranium Alice Gorman , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 55 2017; (p. 257-266) 'As an archaeologist working in the remote areas around Woomera and the Nullarbor Plain, my understanding of South Australia was first informed by rocks and soil. There were fossils of extinct boneless animals underfoot, caught in the shadows of a long-evaporated sea. The angles of deliberately fractured stone betrayed a human intent, the sharp blade discarded where it performed an unknown task. Beer cans lay rusting around the remains of a campfire. A mound ribboned with broad tyre prints marked a grave full of radioactive aeroplanes. On a dusty barracks window, someone had used short strips of masking tape to spell 'Chernobyl'. The adhesive still held, although the tape had become splintered and dry.' (Publication abstract)
1 Incandescence and the Digital People Alice Gorman , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 309 2009; (p. 45)
— Review of Incandescence Greg Egan , 2008 single work novel
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