Catharine Lumby
Autore di Bad Girls: The media, sex and feminism in the 90s
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- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Australia
- Attività lavorative
- journalist
researcher
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- Opere
- 10
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 57
- Popolarità
- #287,973
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 14
According to the press release, Frank Moorhouse AM (1938-2022) had asked journalist, writer and academic Catharine Lumby to be his biographer a decade before he died...
So this is not a biography rushed prematurely into print in the wake of Moorhouse's death in June last year. This is the kind of biography that an author of Moorhouse's stature deserves.
In her introduction, Lumby acknowledges that her biography is a story of his life. Her story.
This preoccupation with the rules of social engagement recurs over and over again in his work, from Futility and Other Animals to his League of Nations trilogy, and, Lumby says, this was because he liked toying with the boundaries of rules. As is well known, he was an activist against Australia's absurd censorship laws (see my review of Nicole Moore's The Censor's Library (2012) to see how extensive they were), and he was a supporter of the gay liberation, feminist and Aboriginal rights movement throughout his life. But he didn't always please feminists then or now and Lumby includes a vignette from a story that expresses the casual sexism of the 70s and the way that women were not respected during the 'sexual revolution' that developed in the aftermath of The Pill.
Lumby notes that Moorhouse was younger than most members of the Sydney Push. He enjoyed its left-wing libertarianism but he also observed how that played out differently for those who challenged the traditional role of women within marriage as homemakers and mothers.
TO read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2023/11/21/frank-moorhouse-a-life-2023-by-catharine-lum...… (altro)