Bartlett, Alison
Alison Bartlett is an Associate Professor in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia. She has published widely in feminist literary criticism, maternal cultures, and Australian feminist histories in relation to social memory and material culture. Her most recent book is Things that Liberate: an Australian Feminist Wunderkammer, edited with Margaret Henderson (2013).
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ArticlesIn an interview, which was originally published in 1975 in Dialectiques, French philosopher Luce Irigaray was asked about her claim that there is a ‘feminine’ style of writing which can be traced in language. She replied that women’s discourse needed to be listened for outside of the readymade grids that we have already inherited, that a new...Read more
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ArticlesIntroductionIn Nancy Meyers’s 2015 film The Intern a particular kind of masculinity is celebrated through the material accoutrements of Ben Whittaker (Robert De Niro). A retired 70-year-old manager, Ben takes up a position as a “senior” Intern in an online clothing distribution company run by Jules Ostin (Anne...Read more
