Ann Vickery is a Monash Fellow in the Centre for Women’s Studies and Gender Research at Monash University, Australia. She is the author of Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing (Wesleyan University Press, 2000) and has published widely in Australian and contemporary American poetries. A founding member of HOW2, a journal of innovative women’s writing and scholarship, she was its editor-in-chief between 2001 and 2002.
SynopsisStressing the Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Women’s Poetry is the first major study of women’s poetic careers in early twentieth-century Australia. This was a particularly prolific period for women...