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1 A Different Path : Marginality, Restistance and Drusilla Modjeska's Poppy Leonie Rowan , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies , December vol. 6 no. 2 2001; (p. 47-59) Focusing on Drusilla Modjeska's fictionalised biography, Poppy, and making use of a range of contemporary feminist resources; this paper has three main goals. First, to highlight the ways in which the text highlights the impact of "being a woman" in a world where women's bodies are discursively constructed in narrow and limiting ways. Second, to emphasise the ways in which Poppy works to make explicit the constructed nature of the meanings associated with "Woman" and thereby highlights the potential for the term - and all it stands for - to be understood out outside phallocentric logic. Third, to outline some of the ways in which the text demonstrates that specific forms of embodied subjectivity can be challenged and creatively rewritten. The emphasis, throughout, is on the transformative potential of narratives such as Poppy that work to render problematic and move beyond traditional and normative understandings of Woman, towards representations of post "woman" women.' (Leonie Rowan)
1 y separately published work icon Voices of a Margin : Speaking for Yourself Leonie Rowan (editor), Jan McNamee (editor), Rockhampton : Central Queensland University Press , 1995 Z1204059 1995 anthology criticism Includes papers given at 'Voices of a Margin', a conference held in 1994 by Central Queensland University.
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