Westerly 34:4
Contents:
Essay
E. Ann Kaplan
Discourses of the Mother in Postmodern Film and Culture
Delys Bird
"Mother, I won't never go drovin'": Motherhood in Australian Narrative*
Kieran Dolin
Mater Dolorosa: War and Motherhood in Lucinda Brayford
Jennifer Strauss
Elegies for Mothers: Reflections on Gwen Hardwood's "Mother Who Gave Me Life" and Les Murray's "Three Poems in Memory of My Mother"
Brenda Walker
"Sweetest and Best in Womanhood"? Equivocal Representations of Maternity in Australian Women's Fiction
Sue Rowley
Inside the Deserted Hut: The Representation of Motherhood in Bush Mythology
Joan Kirkby
Barbara Baynton: An Australian Jocasta
Review
Alan Urquhart
A review of WORDHORD: A Critical Selection of Contemporary Western Australian Poetry
Nadine Myatt
A review of Nicci Gerard's Into the Mainstream: How Feminism Has Changed Women's Writing
Ailsa G. Thomson Zainu’ddin
A review of Patricia Crawford and Myrna Tonkinson's The Missing Chapters: Women Staff at the University of Western Australia
Terri-ann White
A review of David Brooks and Brenda Walker's Poetry and Gender
Creative Nonfiction
Drusilla Modjeska
Extract from: Poppy: The Evidence*
Poetry
Marion Campbell
Time Inside
Katherine Gallagher
Last Afternoon
Katherine Gallagher
September Afternoon, Jubilee Lake
Mary Dilworth
The Birth
Jan Kemp
Chagall Windows, Fraumünster, Zürich
Agnes Lam
My Cerebral Child
Wong Phui Nam
Prettiest of our Cousins
Jennifer Strauss
Son and Moon: Scenes from Maternal Life
Jennie Fraine
Crayon Communications
Joan Bartlett
Migrant Women Circa 1857
Fiction
Marion Campbell
The Feral Queen
Carmel Bird
The Breast of the Black Madonna
Julie Lewis
Queen Bee
Elizabeth Jolley
My Mother's Visit
Margaret Packham Hargrave
Small Frame
Lorraine Bennett
Victa
Margo Daly
The Carnival of Animals
Sari Hosie
Chamber Music
Sari Hosie
Aquamarine and the Real Sea